Joseph Stalin
Born Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1878 – 1953), Stalin was the first General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. He assumed a lead role in Soviet politics following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924.
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AnoviaIt was very bad you;d get killed for anything slightly wrong or out of order
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No, he did not. There is a legend that Stalin did murder his father because he was brutish toward his son and Stalin fought back,...
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The ideas/programs of Stalin's were: The Five Year Plans, which aimed to increase the Soviet Union's industrial capacity...
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Joseph Stalin was born on December 21, 1879Stalin was born on 18 December 1878 (6 December old calendar), according to his...
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Joseph Stalin was Georgian. He was born and raised in Gori.
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He was one of Lenin's right hand men in the Communist Party, he fought for power with Trotsky when Lenin died, his choice to go...
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Joseph Stalin came into power in 1924 when Vladimir Lenin died, but by no means was he a dictator at that time. In fact Stalin...
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He closed off the "Berlin Corridor" which was the only road large enough to carry supplies into West Berlin. The United States,...
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his REAL second name was dzhugzanvili
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Stalin has just come No. 3 in a poll of most popular Russians, so he is fondly remembered by many Russians. Soviet dictator...
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answ2. Trotsky fell out of favour with the powerful, over interpretations of what communism was. He exiled himself to Mexico. He...
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he refused to allow free elections in eastern Europe
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The Five Year Plans were the means by which Joseph Stalin accomplished his economic goals. He had stated that the Soviet Union...
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5th March 1953 Kuntsevo Dacha near Moscow.
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Despite the many portraits and statues of Stalin that portray him as glowingly handsome, Stalin is said to have been quite ugly....
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Essentially, Stalin had total control of the Soviet Union by the end of 1928. During the last year of Lenin's life in 1923,...
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He was the leader of the USSR
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Leon Trotsky remained the person most dedicated to the classic theories put forth by Karl Marx. Both Lenin and Stalin deviated...
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Stalin was probably not out to eliminate the Jews as a race of people the way Hitler wanted to do. But Stalin still wanted to get...
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Both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin called for economic restructuring but in different ways. Lenin's plan was called the New...
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So that the government took control of agricultural and industrial production.
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No, he did not have a secret identity. Code words were used during World War 2 by the army to refer to him secretly, but that is...
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Yes, he was still a dictator when he died. He was still Premier of the USSR and controlled the Communist Party and the Soviet...
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Stalin was known primarily for his Five Year Plans, designed to industrialize the Soviet economy and "collectivization" which was...
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Stalin was short and stocky, surprisingly about 5'4" or 5' 5" with a heavily pockmarked face from a childhood bout with smallpox....
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The secret polic are probably better seen as "political police, since the various secret police organizations did not perform...
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The Catholic church did not support Stalin. He was an autocrat and a Communist, opposing all religious establishments.
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Stalin did not react to it; he started it.
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Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for almost 30 years as the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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Joseph Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia (the eastern European nation, not the US state) on December 18, 1878. His name at birth...
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he was a peasent, he worked on a farm
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almost all of his own people. They wanted him dead, but almost all the people were afraid to stand up to him or plan anything...
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Agricultural disaster
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The short answer is Joseph Stalin, but that isn't really correct. At first it was Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and Joseph Stalin...
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No, Stalin did not fight in either war. During World War 1, Stalin was ordered to report for a physical prior to being...
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Stalin basically was a very paranoid man, especially since he led his wife, Nayda, to kill herself. So when he became powerful,...
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It was called "collectivization," because many small individually owned farms were taken from their owners and collected into one...
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Joseph Stalin gained his power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952, People's...
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There were several totalitarian government takeovers in the 20s and 30s leading up to WW2. Mussolini established the Fascist...
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Joseph Stalin initiated the first Five Year Plan in 1928. At the same time he scrapped Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy....
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Because he died................
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I believe it was Johnny Cash... yes the rock and roll star When he was in his late teens/early 20s he worked for the army He...
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Stain one day walked into his office in the Kremlin. "How are the plans going Vladimir?" he asked one of his faithful servants....
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A Russian agent murdered Trotsky by smashing the pointed end of an ice axe into his head.
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Stalin had several children. Some were by his wives, some were out of wedlock, and one was adopted. They area; Yakov...
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Stalin did not install a new type of government after World War 2. After the Russian Revolution, Russia became a government by...
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Josef Stalin intentionaly caused the starvation death in the Ukraine (the Holodomor)of up to 10 million people in 1932-3 by...
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Stalin instituted the policy called "collectivization" in order to modernize agriculture in the Soviet Union. This policy forces...
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Rasputin
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Depending on the crime and the person involved, some were shot; some imprisoned; some exiled within the country and some exiled...
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No, Stalin did not practice true communist ideals, but that was to be expected. Neither Lenin not Stalin sought to impose true...
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Nikita Khrushchev (First Secretary of the Communist Party) and Georgi Malenkov (Premier of the Soviet Union) both came to power...
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Yakov Dzhugashvili this was Joseph Stalin's son's name. This was his only child to his first wife, Ekaterina Svanidze. According...
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Stalin persecuted Jews, kulaks (somewhat wealthy peasants), Ukrainians, and virtually everyone who disagree with or criticized...
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No, he was abused as a child and his mother got in bed with many men in his hometown. He even called her his "old w***e". He also...
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Stalin was rough and crude. Stalin tried to create a myth that he was the contry's father and savior. Stalin glorified himself as...
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Stalin never joined the army. In fact, during World War 1, when he was conscripted for army service in the Tsarist army, he was...
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Stalin's goals completely contridicted the five goals of the American foreign policy.
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Leon Trotsky was murdered on orders from Stalin in 1940.
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how did the arms race lead to the end of the fall of the soviet union
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Joseph Stalin ruled Russia, actually the Soviet Union in the 1940s. The government was a totalitarian one run by the Communist...
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No, Vladimir Lenin was the Soviet state's first Marxist leader.
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Stalin had two sets of purges by "show trials." The first was directed against rival political figures like Zinoviev, Kamenev,...
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Stalin's plans were called the Five Year Plans.
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There are many books about Joseph Stalin. Some are: The Court of the Red Tsar; Stalin:A Biography; Koba the Dread.
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Stalin took many risks through-out his career, from drawing reserves to bail Stalingrad out to daring to take control of the...
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No. Actually, yes, in private many women found him to be sexually charming. Of course, "sexy" is in the eye of the beholder....
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Trotsky was not exiled to any particular country. He was first exiled to Alma Atta in Siberia then ordered to leave the country,...
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first he wanted to spread communism into this area. and second he wanted to create a buffer zone of friendly governments as a...
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Trotsky never ruled Russia. After the revolution put Lenin and the Bolsheviks in power, Trotsky was considered the number two man...
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he mass murdered millions, sent thousands of kulaks to death camps, killed anyone in his way to achieve his goals, deported...
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The first Russian revolution came in 1905. It is plausible to say that it resulted from Russia's hard defeat in the...
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Stalin was Georgian (as Mikhail Saakashvili).
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There are more similarities than differences. Both men took political ideas which in themselves are ideals - and then perverted...
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the death of millionsHitler and Stalin have a few things in common. They were both the leaders of their country, and both wanted...
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On August 23 1939 Hitler and Stalin signed a joint non-aggression pact. This guaranteed that Germany would not attack Russia, nor...
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6 days. comrade Stalin had anyone who stopped clapping killed on the spot. the last person who kept clapping was mauled by dogs.
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stalin was portrayed as a bully and a harsh man. He was horrid to the people around him and even his family killed themselves...
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During Stalin's rule, children were told that he was the greatest thing to ever happen to Russia
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Stalin was the Commissar of State Control and then the Commissar of Nationalities under Lenin.
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a change you can believe in.Two of Stalin's famous quotes are "Socialism in one country." This actually is a description of his...
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Yes, he was. Svetlana Aliluyeva was his wife
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It basically killed all the Old Bolsheviks that could remember Lenin, and allowed Russia to be ruled by the younger Bolsheviks...
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it's not that he wanted to kill people, its just that he probably felt that he was weeding out the weak from the strong, thus...
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