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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (né Dzhugashvili; 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the...

Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin (born 1 March 1953) is an Indian politician and a statesman who served as the eighth chief minister of Tamil Nadu from 2021...

Stalinism (Russian: сталинизм, stalinizm) is the totalitarian means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR)...

Udhayanidhi Stalin (born 27 November 1977) is an Indian politician, and the incumbent Opposition Leader of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly since May 2026...

Look up Stalin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953...

Vasily Iosifovich Stalin (later Dzhugashvili; 21 March 1921 – 19 March 1962) was the youngest son of Joseph Stalin, born from his second wife, Nadezhda...

After the assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nikolaev in 1934, Joseph Stalin launched a series of show trials known as the Moscow trials to remove suspected...

leader Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), major figure in Russian and world history of the early to mid-20th century Joseph Stalin (trade unionist)...

Union was excluded from the Munich Agreement in September 1938. Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, had indicated...

Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin has served as the 8th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from 7 May 2021 to 9 May 2026. He is the leader of the Dravida Munnetra...

The Stalin (ザ・スターリン; stylized as THE STALIN) were a Japanese punk rock band formed in June 1980, by leader and vocalist Michiro Endo. After numerous member...

Joseph Stalin, second leader of the Soviet Union, died on 5 March 1953 at his Kuntsevo Dacha after suffering a stroke, at age 74. He was given a state...

Stalin is a 2006 Indian Telugu-language political action drama film directed by A. R. Murugadoss. It stars Chiranjeevi in the titular role, with Trisha...

The Death of Stalin is a 2017 political satire black comedy film directed by Armando Iannucci and written by Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin with...

M. K. Stalin ministry was the Council of Ministers headed by M. K. Stalin, who was sworn in as the 21st Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu after the 2021 Tamil...

Joseph Stalin's cult of personality became a prominent feature of Soviet popular culture. Historian Archie Brown sets the celebration of Stalin's 50th birthday...

commonly referred to as the Stalin Era or the Stalinist Era, covers the period in Soviet history from the establishment of Stalinism through victory in the...

Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1941 until...

Stalin tunic (Russian: сталинка, romanized: stalinka [ˈstalʲɪnkə]) is a colloquial term for a type of tunic or jacket associated with Joseph Stalin;...

into the Soviet Union in 1922. Following Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin came to power, initiating rapid industrialization and forced collectivization...

Young Stalin is an upcoming biographical film directed by Géla Babluani and starring Cosmo Jarvis as a young Joseph Stalin adapted from the 2007 non-fiction...

Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967 she became an international...

wife of Joseph Stalin. She was born in Baku to a friend of Stalin, a revolutionary, and was raised in Saint Petersburg. Having known Stalin from a young...

The accusation that Joseph Stalin was antisemitic is much discussed by historians. Although part of a movement that included Jews and ostensibly rejected...

Stalin Prize may refer to: State Stalin Prize in science and engineering and in arts, awarded 1941 to 1956, later known as the USSR State Prize Stalin...

Stalinodar, which translates as "gift of Stalin," Stalin objected. To merge the Lenin and Stalin cults together, Stalin changed aspects of Lenin's life in the...

Soviet hierarchy. During Stalin's rule, he actively supported the Great Purge and approved thousands of arrests. In 1938, Stalin sent him to govern the...

throughout the 20th century. It was developed in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin and drew on elements of Bolshevism, Leninism, and Marxism. It was the state...

Stalin ministry could refer to: Stalin's first government (1941-46), headed by Joseph Stalin Stalin's second government (1946-50), headed by Joseph Stalin...

In exile, Trotsky wrote polemics against Stalinism, advocating proletarian internationalism against Stalin's theory of socialism in one country. Trotsky's...

engineer and Red Army officer. He was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his...

served as deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces under leader Joseph Stalin, and oversaw some of the Red Army's most decisive victories. He also served...

Neo-Stalinism is the promotion of positive views of Joseph Stalin's role in history, the partial re-establishing of Stalin's policies on certain or all...

politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the NKVD from 1938 to 1945 during...

Stalin is a 1992 American political drama television film starring Robert Duvall as Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Produced by HBO Pictures and directed...

Stalin's Dacha, also known as the Kuntsevo Dacha, (Russian: Ку́нцевская да́ча, romanized: Kuntsevskaya dacha) was Joseph Stalin's personal residence between...

★ALBANIA ITALY AUSTRIA GERMANY (AMERICAN ZONE) GERMANY (BRITISH ZONE) The Tito–Stalin split or the Soviet–Yugoslav split was the culmination of a conflict between...

The Stalin Line was a line of fortifications along the western border of the Soviet Union (USSR). Work began on the system in the 1920s to protect the...

government. After Karunanidhi's death, his son and former deputy, M. K. Stalin, succeeded as the party president and as a chief minister of Tamil Nadu...

Stalin: A Biography is a biography of Joseph Stalin written by Robert Service. It was published in 2004. For his research, Service traveled to Abkhazia...

Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions (French: La récidive: Révolution russe, révolution chinoise) is a non-fiction book...

Second Manmohan Singh ministry from 2009 to 2013. His youngest son, M. K. Stalin, served as chief minister of Tamil Nadu from 2021 to 2026. His youngest...

(born January 25, 1983), better known by his stage name J. Stalin (also J Stalin or J-Stalin), is an American rapper from the Cypress Village housing projects...

a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary. He was one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies and one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet government...

triumvirate alongside Zinoviev and the ruling party's General Secretary, Joseph Stalin, that led Soviet Russia until Lenin returned to work later in the year....

English-language books (including translations) and journal articles about Stalinism, Joseph Stalin, and the Stalinist era of Soviet history. Book entries have references...

historians and other authors have carried out a comparison of Nazism and Stalinism, with particular consideration to the similarities and differences between...

December 1901] – 14 January 1988) was a Soviet politician who succeeded Joseph Stalin as Premier and the overall leader of the Soviet Union in March 1953. Shortly...

The failure of Operation Barbarossa reversed the fortunes of Germany, and Stalin was confident that the Allied war machine would eventually defeat Germany...

of deaths attributable to the Soviet revolutionary and dictator Joseph Stalin vary widely. The scholarly consensus affirms that archival materials declassified...

the local Komsomol was only admitting ethnic Abkhazians. In 1931, Joseph Stalin made Abkhazia an autonomous republic (Abkhaz ASSR) within the Georgian SSR...

The Joseph Stalin Museum is a museum in Gori, Georgia dedicated to the life of Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, who was born in Gori. The...

had positioned Bukharin favourably as Joseph Stalin's chief ally, with Bukharin soon elaborating Stalin's theory of "socialism in one country". From 1926...

reign of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), and M. K. Stalin was sworn in as the 12th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The poll was Tamil...

with the theme "Stalin Thodarattum, Tamil Nadu Vellattum" (let Stalin continue, let Tamil Nadu triumph). Manifesto On 29 March 2026, Stalin released the...

Sanjeev Stalin (born 17 January 2001) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Indian Super League club Mumbai City. He has represented...

Indian film production and film distribution company founded by Udhayanidhi Stalin. It has distributed nearly all major films in Tamil Nadu for several years...

Katyusha. German troops coined the nickname "Stalin's organ" (Stalinorgel), after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, comparing the visual resemblance of the launch...

Sex with Stalin is a 2020 comedy-parody dating sim video game developed by Georgiy Kukhtenkov, also known as "Boobs Dev". In Sex with Stalin, the player...

1940), also spelt Ezhov, was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, at the height of the Great Purge...

Everyday Stalinism or Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s is a book by Australian academic Sheila Fitzpatrick...

II. The IS acronym is the anglicized initialism of Joseph Stalin (Ио́сиф Ста́лин, Iosif Stalin). The heavy tanks were designed as a response to the capture...

works of Stalin and Mao Zedong and some the works of Stalin while rejecting Mao and universally tend to oppose Trotskyism. Others reject both Stalin and Mao...

The early life of Joseph Stalin covers the period from Stalin's birth, on 18 December 1878 (6 December according to the Old Style), until the October Revolution...

developed by Stalin Neo-Stalinism, the posthumous promotion of Stalin and his political theory Stalinism (EP), 1981 EP by The Stalin Stalinism (album), 1987...

series of criminal cases fabricated in the late 1940s–early 1950s by Joseph Stalin in order to accuse a number of prominent Leningrad based authority figures...

The Stalin Monument (Hungarian: Sztálin szobor, pronounced [ˈstaːlin ˈsobor]) was a statue of Joseph Stalin in Budapest, Hungary. Completed in December...

The "Stalin Epigram", also known as "The Kremlin Highlander" (Russian: Кремлёвский горец) is a poem by the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, written in November...

Stalin's statues This is a list of former and current known monuments dedicated to Joseph Stalin, many having been removed as a result of de-Stalinization...

Katarina Matilda Putri Stalin (born 1 February 2009) is a footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Elite Clubs National League club Sporting...

award traces its origins to the State Stalin Prize (Государственная Сталинская премия), commonly known as the Stalin Prize, which was established in 1941...

Mozhi Manickam under Double Meaning Production. The film stars Udhayanidhi Stalin, Nithya Menen, Aditi Rao Hydari and debutant Rajkumar Pitchumani as the...

film director working in Tamil cinema. She is also the wife of Udhayanidhi Stalin, the former deputy chief minister of Tamil Nadu (2024 - 2026). Kiruthiga...

Stalin's Monument (Czech: Stalinův pomník) was a 15.5 m (51 ft) granite statue honoring Joseph Stalin in Prague, Czechoslovakia. It was unveiled on 1...

approved by Adolf Hitler in December. In early 1941, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, despite receiving intelligence about an imminent attack, did not order...

Stalin Evander Valencia Cortez (born 10 October 2003) is an Ecuadorean footballer who plays for Ecuadorian Serie A club Emelec and the Ecuador national...

security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin, Yagoda supervised arrests, show trials, and executions of the Old Bolsheviks...

The Third Government of Stalin was the cabinet of the Soviet Union established in 1950 with Joseph Stalin as head of government, serving as president...

Calliste (24 September 1941 – 28 December 2022), better known as Black Stalin, was a leading calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago known for his lyrics...

1969), was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin era (1924–1953). He was one of the original five Marshals of the Soviet...

The Stalin Note, also known as the March Note, was a document delivered to the representatives of the Western Allies (the United Kingdom, France, and the...

foundations for a Stalin ... but the passage from Leninism to the worse terrors of Stalinism was not smooth and inevitable." Historian and Stalin biographer...

In computing, Stalin (STAtic Language ImplementatioN) is a programming language, an aggressive optimizing batch whole-program Scheme compiler written by...

Stalin Sivadas is a 1999 Malayalam political conspiracy crime film, directed by T. S. Suresh Babu and written by T. Damodaran. The film stars Mammootty...

"strengthened peace among comrades". It was founded as the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples, but was renamed the International...

Regiunea Stalin (Stalin Region) was one of the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania. It was established in 1950, in the Soviet...

The Stalin Society is a British discussion group for individuals who see Joseph Stalin as a great Marxist–Leninist and wish to preserve his legacy. The...

Stalin José Rivas (born 5 August 1971 in San Félix, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan former footballer who played as a midfielder. He is described as "the most...

Rezauddin Ahmed Stalin (born 22 November 1962) is a Bangladeshi poet and a television personality. He is the current Director General of Bangladesh Shilpakala...

completed a full term in the role. The position was first held by M. K. Stalin of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, who also served as minister for rural...

established Kolathur constituency instrumental in election work for M.K.Stalin. Following a narrower-than-expected victory in the campaign, DMK said he...

rare exceptions in wartime. From 1953 to 1961, it was named Lenin's and Stalin's Mausoleum. The outdoor tribune over the mausoleum's entrance was used by...

Marxist–Leninist ideology of Joseph Stalin. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically...

responsibility in which Trotsky was placed in "an important role and within which Stalin would be dramatically demoted (if not removed)". Trotsky advocated for a...

party (as described in Lenin's What Is to Be Done?). Following Joseph Stalin's consolidation of power in the late 1920s, the post of the general secretary...

officeholder was the recognized leader of the Soviet Union. Prior to Joseph Stalin's accession, the position was not viewed as an important role in Vladimir...

jobs, arrested, and tortured to produce admissions. A few weeks after Stalin's death in 1953, the new Soviet leadership dropped the case due to a lack...

Russia was the peasant class. Stalinism, while not an ideology per se, refers to Stalin's thoughts and policies. Stalin's introduction of the concept "Socialism...

The Stalin Subway (Russian title Метро-2, "Metro-2") is a first-person shooter video game developed by G5 Software and Orion Games. It was published by...

Assembly Fahadh Faasil as Rathnavelu Keerthy Suresh as Leela Udhayanidhi Stalin as Maa. Athiveeran "Veera" S. Surya as young Veera Lal as Chief Minister...

for carrying out political repression and the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin, as well as counterintelligence and other operations on the Eastern Front...

Apocalypse: Stalin (in French: Apocalypse, Staline) is a French three-part television series retracing the meteoric rise of Joseph Stalin and the birth...

reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by the ascension of Nikita Khrushchev...

Stalin Hoover (born 26 November 1988) is an Indian cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Karnataka in the 2016–17 Inter State Twenty-20 Tournament...

political movements that oppose Joseph Stalin, Stalinism, neo-Stalinism and the system of governance that Stalin implemented as leader of the Soviet Union...

before his death in 1924, beginning a power struggle which ended in Joseph Stalin's rise to power. Lenin was the posthumous subject of a pervasive personality...

spring of 1940 due to bad weather. After the outbreak of war in Poland, Stalin threatened Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania with military invasion, forcing...

called to Stalin's box at the end of the performance and told that his work had "considerable ideological-political value". On 26 January, Stalin revisited...

elected government headed by chief minister M. K. Stalin. He was criticised as being dictatorial by Stalin, due to his reluctance and delay in giving assent...

Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin. The conference was held near Yalta in Crimea, Soviet Union, within the...

Yugoslavia not to be a member after it broke with Soviet policy in the 1948 Tito–Stalin split.  Albania (1946–1968, ceased participating in Comecon and Warsaw Pact...

November] 1893 – 25 July 1991) was a Soviet politician and one of Joseph Stalin's closest associates. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, Kaganovich worked...

contrast, Vijayakant from the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam and Udhayanidhi Stalin from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam are acknowledged as the second and third...

Stalin K. is an Indian documentary filmmaker, media and human rights activist. His films, Lesser Humans and India Untouched, on the issue of caste and...

Conversations with Stalin (Serbo-Croatian: Razgovori sa Staljinom) is a historical memoir by Yugoslav communist and intellectual Milovan Đilas. The book...

Warsaw, and the war ended in a Soviet defeat. Tukhachevsky blamed Joseph Stalin for his defeat at the Battle of Warsaw. He later served as Chief of Staff...

The Gift to Stalin is a 2008 joint Kazakhstani/Russian/Polish/Israeli film by Kazakhfilm that tells the story of a little Jewish boy named Sasha who is...

The Stalin Battalion was the term used for two partisan divisions that worked within the Brigate Garibaldi and operated in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The battalion...

Batumi Stalin Museum was a museum in Batumi, Georgia. It commemorated Joseph Stalin, who was active in socialist agitation among Batumi's refinery workers...

Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 is the first volume in the three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin by American historian and Princeton Professor...

historical, invoking the legacy of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. The Stalin's high-rises (Сталинские высотки) are a series of seven high-rise buildings...

by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. They were nominally directed against "Trotskyists" and members of the "Right...

the Cold War, it arose from comparison of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin to Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler as a theoretical concept of Western political...

Stalin's first government was created on 7 May 1941 and was dissolved on 15 March 1946, with the creation of Stalin's second government. It was the government...

War of 1919 to 1921, which brought him into Vladimir Lenin's and Joseph Stalin's favour. Rapidly rising through the ranks, Timoshenko held several regional...

The 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union, also known as the Stalin Constitution, was the communist state constitution of the USSR adopted on 5 December...

historians conclude that the famine was deliberately engineered by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement. Others suggest that the...

to the Baltic Sea. Until 1961, it was called by its original name: the Stalin White Sea–Baltic Canal (Belomorsko-Baltiyskiy Kanal imeni Stalina). The...

Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty is a historical book written by Stanford University historian Norman Naimark. Published...

the Minister of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department in Stalin ministry. Currently, he is elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly...

The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin (German: Das Buch Hitler) is the 2005 publication of a long-secret Soviet report on the life of...

for a Comedy Series. He followed this with the feature films The Death of Stalin in 2017 and The Personal History of David Copperfield, a 2019 adaptation...

"The Plot to Kill Stalin" was an American television play broadcast on September 25, 1958, on the CBS television network. It was the first episode of the...

to 20 October 1956, the city was renamed Stalin by the communist government after Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. In 1962, the 15th Chess Olympiad, also...

Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in World War II (Ukrainian: «Між Гітлером і Сталіном — Україна в II Світовій війні», romanized: Mizh Hitlerom i Stalinym...

Joseph Stalin in 1926 and led a company of executioners that performed and supervised numerous mass killings in the Soviet Union during Stalin's reign...

Stalin D. Colinet (/ˌkɒlɪˈneɪ/ KOL-ih-NAY; born July 17, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle and defensive...

Sisters (Russian: Сталинские высотки, romanized: Stalinskiye vysotki, lit. 'Stalin's high-rises') are a group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the...

Stalin, a 1997 biography by Edvard Radzinsky of Joseph Stalin, reflects the author's research in Russia's secret archives and consultation with living...

Stalin Peak may refer to the former name of: Ismoil Somoni Peak (Pamir), the highest point in Tajikistan and the former USSR Gerlach Peak (Carpathians)...

The Stalin School of Falsification (Russian: Сталинская школа фальсификаций, romanized: Stalinskaya shkola falsifikatsy) is a 1932 book by Russian revolutionary...

families of the deceased and injured. Tamil Nadu's chief minister M. K. Stalin formed a one-member commission to investigate the incident. The Tamil Nadu...

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), in the presence of Party President M. K. Stalin on 14 December 2018. Soon after joining the party he was offered District...

In the USSR, during the eleven-year period from the death of Joseph Stalin (1953) to the political ouster of Nikita Khrushchev (1964), the national politics...

economic goals, implemented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, based on his policy of socialism in one country. Leon Trotsky had delivered...

Pyatakov, and crucially Stalin. He warned of the possibility of a split developing in the party leadership between Trotsky and Stalin if proper measures were...

Kliment Voroshilov (chairman), Nikolai Kuznetsov, Stalin and Boris Shaposhnikov. On 28 December, when Stalin asked for volunteers to take over military command...

Labour Party. Kirov became an Old Bolshevik and personal friend to Joseph Stalin, rising through the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ranks to become...

as the "Stalin of the Caribbean" and the "tropical Stalin", respectively. According to The Daily Beast, Maduro has embraced the "tropical Stalin" moniker...

Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives is a 1991 book by the British historian Alan Bullock, in which the author puts the German dictator Adolf Hitler in perspective...

Stalin's Disciples (Hebrew: ילדי סטאלין, in Hebrew Stalin's Children) is a 1986 Israeli film directed by Nadav Levitan that satirizes the utopian ideology...

comedy film written and directed by M. Rajesh and produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin under Red Giant Movies. The film stars Udhayanidhi, Hansika Motwani and...

and Trotsky, Stalin's main opposition, had been removed from the Central Committee, and could no longer threaten Stalin. As a result, Stalin gained the...

Stalin's Funeral (Russian: Похороны Сталина, romanized: Pokhorony Stalina) is a 1990 Soviet drama film written and directed by Yevgeni Yevtushenko. The...

The Stalin Organ (German: Die Stalinorgel) is a 1955 novel by the German writer Gert Ledig. It is about the fighting between Germany and the Soviet Union...

Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years...

rise of M. K. Stalin in the party.[citation needed] But some of the party men have pointed out that Stalin has come up on his own. Stalin was jailed under...

possible after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. First Secretary Khrushchev denounced former General Secretary Stalin in the "Secret Speech" at the 20th...

The Stalin Bloc – For the USSR (Russian: Сталинский блок — за СССР, romanized: Stalinskiy blok — za SSSR), known before January 1999 as the Front of the...

latter for political repressions. In 1928 he returned to the USSR on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and lived there from 1932 until his death in June 1936...

Stalin Ortiz (born February 8, 1981), is a Colombian professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Condores club of the Baloncesto Profesional...

Iván Stalin González Montaño (born 13 November 1980) is a Venezuelan lawyer and politician. On 26 September 2010 he was elected as deputy of the National...

illness and after his death in 1924, Zinoviev allied with Kamenev and Joseph Stalin in a leadership "troika" against Leon Trotsky. The arrangement fell apart...

Joseph Stalin wrote poetry in his youth before becoming a Bolshevik revolutionary and the leader of the Soviet Union. Like many Georgian children, Ioseb...

2025, Jarvis was announced to star as future Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in Young Stalin, a film based on the biography of the same name by historian Simon...

thriller film directed by Magizh Thirumeni and produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin of Red Giant Movies. The film stars Udhayanidhi, Nidhhi Agerwal, Kalaiyarasan...

1926 before being demoted to lower positions due to his opposition to Stalin's rise to power. In 1936, Sokolnikov was arrested during the Great Purge...

of millions is a statistic" is a phrase widely misattributed to Joseph Stalin. This phrase probably originated in France after World War I. The March...

Karunanidhi ministry (2006–2011) Narayanasamy ministry (2016–2021) M. K. Stalin ministry (2021–2026) DMK-led Alliance AIADMK-led Alliance TVK-led Alliance...

Sergei Prokofiev in 1939 to celebrate Stalin's 60th birthday. Its title is sometimes translated as Hail to Stalin in English. A performance lasts around...

Kuppuswami Srinivasan (30 May 1899 – 2 June 1975), popularly known as Stalin Srinivasan, was an Indian journalist and Indian independence activist who...

Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him by Donald Rayfield, and the imprinted with another subtitle: Stalin...

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar is a 2003 popular history book by Simon Sebag Montefiore. It focuses on the private life of the Soviet leader Joseph...

film written and directed by Seenu Ramasamy, and produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin of Red Giant Movies. The film stars Udhayanidhi and Tamannaah Bhatia. Filming...

confidant to former DMK Supremo M. Karunanidhi and his son DMK President M. K. Stalin. He also worked as Treasurer, Principal Secretary and Deputy General secretary...

party meetings, so the DMK party leader and Tamil Nadu chief Minister M. K. Stalin always praises Nehru as "Maanadu endraal Nehru, Nehru endraal Maanadu"....

next day. After a failed attempt to have Trotsky murdered in March 1939, Stalin assigned the overall organization of implementing the task to the NKVD officer...

famous for fearlessly confronting Stalin during their public meetings in Moscow and was one of the few to stand up to Stalin's strong personality), and growing...

groups." In his 2010 work Stalin’s Genocides, Naimark makes a case that the government of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin "killed systematically rather...

comedy film written and directed by Dharani. It is produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin under Red Giant Movies. The film stars Vijay in the main lead role alongside...

between the USSR and its Western partners were becoming apparent. Joseph Stalin claimed a leading role, constantly emphasizing that as the main victor over...

Stalin vs. Martians is a parody real-time strategy video game developed by Black Wing Foundation, Dreamlore and N-Game, released on April 29, 2009. Described...

The Berlin Stalin statue (German: Stalindenkmal) was a bronze portrayal of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. A Komsomol delegation had presented the sculpture...

Joseph Stalin, the second leader of the Soviet Union, died on 5 March 1953. Death of Stalin may also refer to: La Mort de Staline (English: The Death of...

socialist state Stalin envisioned had, unlike Lenin's outline, a standing army, a police and officialdom. Its main goal was, in Stalin's words, to "smash"...

of Joseph Stalin. He became a major general in the Soviet military. Sergeyev's biological father, Fyodor Sergeyev, a close friend of Stalin, died in an...

the state.[citation needed] Stalin was suspicious of the peasants, viewing them as a major threat to socialism. Stalin's use of the collectivization process...

unwelcome attention of Joseph Stalin, one of Zinoviev's chief opponents. They had previously been on good terms, as Stalin had displayed respect towards...

Given the defeats of the 1917–1923 European communist revolutions, Joseph Stalin encouraged the theory of the possibility of constructing socialism in the...

Stalin: Passage to Revolution is a 2020 biography of Joseph Stalin by American historian, political scientist and academic Ronald Grigor Suny. The book...

with Stalin, who would frequently holiday in Abkhazia during the 1920s and 1930s. This relationship saw Lakoba become the rival of one of Stalin's other...

Over time, Joseph Stalin resided in various places: Stalin's house, Gori, Georgia, his birthplace and now a museum Tbilisi Spiritual Seminary Kureika house...

prisoners of war were executed by the NKVD (Soviet secret police), on Joseph Stalin's orders. The massacre is qualified as a crime against humanity, a crime...

Soviet politician who remained in power from Lenin, through the eras of Stalin and Khrushchev, to his retirement under Brezhnev. His longevity inspired...

Stalin Motta Vaquiro (born 28 March 1984) is a Colombian football midfielder who plays for Cucuta Deportivo. Most of his career was spent playing for La...

Joseph Stalin, the former Soviet leader born in Georgia. The demonstrations began as spontaneous gatherings to mark the third anniversary of Stalin's death...

the deputy general secretary. Her half-brothers M. K. Alagiri and M. K. Stalin are the former Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers of the Republic of...

practice it increasingly centralized power in the hands of a few. Under Joseph Stalin, the party's General Secretary from 1922 to 1952, the Politburo evolved...

death and personal tensions with Joseph Stalin have prompted several claims, some of which derived from Stalin's inner circle, that she was poisoned. Nadezhda...

Joseph Stalin as General Secretary of the All-Union Communist Party (b) (CPSU) in 1932. Ryutin wrote two publications that were highly critical of Stalin, his...

SS Tovarishch Stalin (Russian: Товарищ Сталин, lit. 'Comrade Stalin') was a Soviet steamship, the class leader of her twenty-two-ship class of timber...

warfare. In 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced Joseph Stalin and Stalinism in the speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" and...

the political thriller series Homeland (2012–2017), Vasily Stalin in The Death of Stalin (2017), Theo van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018), and Ernest...

Joseph Stalin (Sinhala: ජෝසප් ස්ටාලින්, Tamil: ஜோசப் ஸ்டாலின்) is a Sri Lankan trade unionist. As of 2022, he serves as general secretary of the Ceylon...

decriminalisation was confirmed with new criminal codes in 1922 and 1926. Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet government reversed course in the late 1920s and promoted harsher...

comedy film written and directed by Thalapathy Prabhu, starring Udhayanidhi Stalin and Nivetha Pethuraj, with Parthiepan and Soori in supporting roles. The...

Birdman (2014), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Battle of the Sexes, The Death of Stalin (both 2017), Mandy, Nancy (both 2018), The Grudge, and Possessor (both 2020)...

A secret speech was allegedly given by Joseph Stalin, on 19 August 1939, to members of the Politburo, wherein he justified the Soviet strategy to promote...

Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905–1953 is a 2016 popular science non-fiction book on the history of science in the Soviet...

worked as the personal chef of Vladimir Lenin and also cooked for Joseph Stalin. He was the paternal grandfather of Vladimir Putin, the current president...

Locke and Hannah Arendt, to biographical and historical studies of Joseph Stalin. His scholarship on Hegel and modernity is considered an exemplary contribution...

Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 is the second volume in the three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin by American historian and Princeton Professor...

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival is a memoir by Daniel Finkelstein. It was first published in June 2023 in the United...

The Iosif Stalin-class passenger ship was a two-ship class of large turbo-electric powered passenger ships, operated by the Soviet Baltic Sea Shipping...

"Stalin didn't look upon himself as a dictator, but as a 'guardian of the sacred flame' that he called Stalinism for want of a better name." Stalin's five-year...

biography of Joseph Stalin: The first two volumes have been published as Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 (2014) and Stalin: Waiting for Hitler,...

Stalin's lifetime—to defy Soviet hegemony in the Eastern Bloc, resulting in Yugoslavia's expulsion from the organisation in 1948 in the Tito–Stalin split...

A. degree. Karunanidhi always appeared to prefer his younger son, M. K. Stalin, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Alagiri shifted his base to Madurai during...

Red Army during World War II, and served in Stalin's State Defense Committee. In 1947, he succeeded Stalin as Minister for the Armed Forces and was named...

January 1893 – 14 August 1937) was an NKVD officer and head of Joseph Stalin's personal security until his arrest and execution. Pauker was born into...

suppressed by Soviet forces, resulting in numerous casualties. A monumental Stalin statue had been installed in 1951 by a Komsomol delegation to honour the...

Svanidze (2 April 1885 – 22 November 1907) was the first wife of Joseph Stalin and the mother of his eldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili. Born in Racha, in...

Great Purge under Joseph Stalin. He explained his motivation for writing the book in the introduction: "Defending Stalin's work, essentially defending...

Doctrine, which remained in effect until the death of Joseph Stalin. Zhdanov was considered Stalin's most likely successor but died before him. Zhdanov joined...

particularly from the late 1920s onward under the dominance of Joseph Stalin. The Central Committee originated in the Russian Social Democratic Labor...

government of the Soviet Union (USSR) supported the campaign, and Joseph Stalin personally edited a speech by Lysenko in a way that reflected his support...

Adonis Stalin Preciado Quintero (born 23 March 1997) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a winger for Liga MX club Tijuana. Preciado began his youth...

of communist revolutionary and Soviet Union politician and leader Joseph Stalin, ballistic missile designer Aleksandr Nadiradze, and philosopher Merab Mamardashvili...

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin is a 2010 book by Yale historian Timothy Snyder. It is about mass murders committed before and during World...

Allied side, for which he was made a Marshal of the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin. He further took part in the liberation of Budapest, Vienna and Prague,...

the titular head of state of the Soviet Union after the rise of Joseph Stalin, with whom he enjoyed a privileged relationship, but held little real power...

Kapoor. A remake of the 2019 Hindi film Article 15, it stars Udhayanidhi Stalin, Aari Arujunan, Tanya Ravichandran, and Shivani Rajashekar. The film revolves...

famine but ultimately survived. During this period Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered the kulaks (land-owning proprietors) "to be liquidated as a class"...

from 1945 to 1948, to Stalinism. But according to the Trotskyist (hence anti-Stalinist) historian Jean-Jacques Marie, Stalin had planned to liquidate...

Tamil Nadu Governor R. N. Ravi on the recommendations of Chief Minister M K Stalin. He served as Minister for School Education in Tamil Nadu during 2006-2011...

film written and directed by Krish Thirukumaran. Produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin, the film features himself in the lead role along with Amy Jackson, Sathyaraj...

"Stalin Wasn't Stallin' (A Modern Spiritual)" was a song written in 1943 by Willie Johnson and originally recorded by the a cappella gospel group the Golden...

Party Joseph Stalin rose to power in 1924, the de facto leader of the Soviet Union typically was the party's General Secretary, with Stalin and his successor...

Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin (Russian: И. В. Сталин и К. Е. Ворошилов в Кремле) is a 1938 painting by Soviet painter Aleksandr Gerasimov. It depicts...

which starred Jeremy Brett in the title role. He also appeared as Joseph Stalin in the last two episodes of Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983). Other credits included...

about Stalin usually refer to his paranoia and contempt for human life. Stalin's words are typically pronounced with a heavy Georgian accent. Stalin attends...

1941. Despite warnings and the deployment of Axis armies on his borders, Stalin refused to believe that Hitler would invade and forbade any defensive preparations...

He argued against Stalin regarding growth targets: Stalin wanted to set unrealistic targets, while Ordzhonikidze eventually got Stalin to agree on a yearly...

The Stalin Monument (also called: Stalin Bust and Herring) is an artwork in The Hague, Netherlands, created by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid (the...

policy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1925 until Joseph Stalin abolished it in 1929. Bukharin's theories grew out of his analysis of the...

the forced labor camps from the 1930s to the early 1950s during Joseph Stalin's rule, but in English literature the term is popularly used for the system...

imprisoned in Gulag under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin but later played the role of Joseph Stalin in several films. He was born Aleksei Denisovich Dikiy...

offensive plans controversy was a debate among historians as to whether Joseph Stalin had planned to launch an attack against Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941...

by I. Ahmed. The film features an ensemble cast, including Udhayanidhi Stalin, Radha Ravi, Prakash Raj, Vivek, Hansika Motwani and Aishwarya Rajesh. A...

horror film written and directed by S. Ezhil, and produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin. The film stars Udhayanidhi and Regina Cassandra, with Soori and Srushti...

wrong date for the funeral. Stalin's secretary, Boris Bazhanov would later corroborate this account as he stated "Stalin was true to himself: he sent...

Stalin's bunker (Russian: Бункер Сталина) is an air raid shelter located near Samara State University of Culture in Samara (former Kuybyshev), Russia....

committed upon the direct orders of Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin in pursuance of the early Soviet policy of Red Terror as a means to justify...

since 1914. Stalin declined to attend or send representatives as the Soviet Union was not at war with Japan. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met for the...

into internal exile, where she remained until after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. Zhemchuzhina was born Perl Solomonovna Karpovskaya to the family...

States. They were represented respectively by General Secretary Joseph Stalin, prime ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, and President Harry...

Stalin: Breaker of Nations is a biography of Joseph Stalin by author and historian Robert Conquest. It was published in 1991 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson...

Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states. Beginning after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, the Soviet government undertook the political and social restoration...

Blyukher was arrested during the period of military purges under Joseph Stalin for spying. He was tortured and blinded by Lavrentiy Beria and his men before...

his Ph.D. while she was pursuing her Master's. They have two sons. "MK Stalin to head 34-member cabinet: PTR is Finance Minister, Ma Su gets Health"....

thriller film written and directed by Mu. Maran. The film stars Udhayanidhi Stalin in his penultimate acting credit, Prasanna, Srikanth, and Aathmika, while...

was a strategy meeting of the Allies of World War II, held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December...

Stalin! is a 2002 documentary film directed by Yale Strom and narrated by Ron Perlman. L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin! covers the topic of Joseph Stalin's creation...

between Stalin and Leon Trotsky. Trotsky supported Permanent Revolution (just as Snowball advocated overthrowing other farm owners), while Stalin supported...

perceived bureaucratic degeneration within the party leadership headed by Stalin after the death of the Bolshevik founder Lenin in 1924. The Left Opposition...

The second set of lyrics, also written by Mikhalkov and in which Joseph Stalin's name was omitted, was adopted in 1977. A decade after the dissolution of...

Stalin's second government was formally constituted on March 19, 1946, with Joseph Stalin at the helm as the head of government and Chairman of the Council...

Stalinka, Stalinist apartment buildings or Stalin-era buildings, are a common colloquial term for apartment buildings constructed in the USSR from 1933...

Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West is a 2008 six-episode BBC/PBS documentary series on the role of Joseph Stalin and German-Soviet relations...

political praxis of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Stalin. Marxism–Leninism was the ideological basis for the Soviet Union. It explained...

contradictions with Stalin, and how Stalin was guilty of subverting and debasing the 1917 revolution. He continued to vocally criticize Stalin and Stalinism until his...

ideological spin was put on every published item." After the death of Joseph Stalin, punitive measures were replaced by punitive psychiatry, prison, denial...

Breaking Stalin's Nose is a 2011 children's historical novel written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin. It is set in Moscow during the Stalin era and shows...

city. On 22 August 1950, Brașov was renamed Orașul Stalin (lit. Stalin City) after Joseph Stalin. Constantin Ion Parhon, the nominal Head of State at...

liberal Russian Provisional Government. However, when Lev Kamenev, Joseph Stalin and former Duma deputy Matvei Muranov returned from Siberian exile on 12...

Giorgis asuli Geladze (1856/1858 – 4 June 1937) was the mother of Joseph Stalin. She was commonly known as Keke. Born into a family of peasants outside...

of failing to investigate the Doctors' Plot. After the death of Joseph Stalin, Abakumov was tried for fabricating the Leningrad affair, sentenced to death...

Stalin's Peasants or Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization is a book by the Soviet scholar and historian...

Stalin's shooting lists (Russian: Ста́линские расстре́льные спи́ски) were the lists of extrajudicially accused persons submitted to the Military Collegium...

He fought alongside Joseph Stalin at the Battle of Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War and quickly became one of Stalin's most favoured generals. In...

disassembled in 1942 for fortifications and bridges. After World War II, Joseph Stalin lost interest in the palace. Iofan produced several revised, scaled-down...

Russian cardiologist and medical academic. A grandson of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, he specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of chest pain and other cardiac...

parent body as he was seen as a threat to DMK chief Karunanidhi's son, M.K. Stalin. Vaiko along with some district secretaries announced the decision to start...

dispatches convinced Stalin that Korea did not have the importance to the US that would warrant a nuclear confrontation. On 30 January 1950, Stalin telegraphed...

1920s. This period was cut short when Joseph Stalin became the leader of the USSR following Lenin's death. Stalin did away with the NEP in what became known...

Italy. During Communist Albania the city was renamed to Stalin City (Albanian: Qyteti Stalin) and was a closed military district. The city was extensively...

term "purge" is largely associated with Stalinism because the greatest of the purges happened during Stalin's rule, the Bolsheviks carried out their first...

the Anna Centenary Library in Chennai. Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M. K. Stalin presided over the launch ceremony. The book was received by Digvijaya Singh...

was imminent. He had tried to warn Joseph Stalin via the ambassador to Moscow, Stafford Cripps, but Stalin did not trust Churchill. The night before the...

criticized the rule of Joseph Stalin, the previous Soviet leader who had died March 1953. Khrushchev condemned Stalin's purges, particularly the Great...

Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin. Like Big Brother's orders of the day, Stalin's frequently lauded heroic individuals, like Comrade...

Genocide Convention of 1948, and in particular they have written that Joseph Stalin may have feared greater international scrutiny of the political killings...

film directed by Stalin V and produced by Pon.Selvaraj. The film stars Prajin and Gayatri Rema, with Paruthiveeran Venkatesh, Stalin V, Gobar and Ramanathan...

Gerhard (2008). Stalin and the Cold War in Europe. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-5542-6. Wood, Alan (2005). Stalin and Stalinism. Psychology Press...

and politician, who was a close political ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Born to a poor peasant family from the Don Cossack region in southern Russia...

Stalin, who nicknamed him “Comrade Wolf”. He made a declaration that Abkhazia would produce lemons for the entirety of the Soviet Union after Stalin repeatedly...

actor Stephen Fry, actor Sam Elliott and Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin, who at times also wore the handlebar moustache. Jamie Hyneman of MythBusters...

Union; he even set up a personality cult of his own, modeled on that of Stalin. He presided over the mass imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian...

poem "Stalin Epigram", which he recited at a few small private gatherings in Moscow. The poem deliberately insulted the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin: .....

a political context, particularly during the political purges of Joseph Stalin, where the Soviet government attempted to erase some of the purged figures...

front. Stalin broke off Polish–Soviet relations on 25 April 1943 after the Germans revealed the Katyn massacre of Polish army officers, and Stalin refused...

state policy in regard to the famine was genocidal do not absolve Joseph Stalin or the Soviet regime as a whole from guilt for the famine deaths and still...

officially announced only on 14 April 1943. The name SMERSH was coined by Joseph Stalin. The formal justification for its creation was to subvert the attempts by...

Medieval English literature at Montclair State University and writer on the Stalin-era Soviet Union. He is best known for his historically revisionist views...

political scientist Svante Cornell referred to him as the "Azerbaijan's Stalin", while Russian philosopher and historian Dmitri Furman called him the "Azerbaijani...

mother of Alexander Davydov, an alleged illegitimate third son of Joseph Stalin. Stalin began living with Lidiya during his final exile in Siberia and impregnated...

The Sibir (from 1938 to 1956, the Iosef Stalin) was the first Soviet icebreaker built at a domestic shipyard. Owing to many delays, it took over two years...

the time of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in June 1941, Joseph Stalin appointed the 32-year-old Ustinov to the post of People's Commissar of Armaments...

Stalin to Marxism. He was one of the few people that Stalin looked up to because of his "astonishing, outstanding talents" and a person whom Stalin called...

the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in the presence of party president M. K. Stalin. A report in The Week in December 2017, alleged that Panneerselvam was on...

establishment of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Birobidzhan in 1928 was ordered by Stalin only as an effort to strengthen the Far Eastern border region with an outpost...

was continued and furthered by the Soviet state, especially under Joseph Stalin. After 1948, antisemitism reached new heights in the Soviet Union, especially...

In Soviet historiography, Stalin's ten blows (Russian: Десять сталинских ударов, romanized: Desyat' stalinskikh udarov) were the ten successful strategic...

Kazhagam (DMK) and allies in the April 2021 State Assembly elections. M. K Stalin was elected chief minister, and assumed office on 7 May 2021. The main officials...

contained flattering references to Stalin. In 1932, Barbusse agreed to write a biography of Stalin. Originally, Stalin wanted Maxim Gorky to write it, but...

thriller film directed by Jithin Suresh T starring Indrajith Sukumaran. ACP Stalin Joseph, who is famed for fearless methods shoots a prime suspect in a Chinnakanal...

Stalin. Other people with this surname include: Besarion Jughashvili (c. 1850–1909), father of Stalin Vasily Dzhugashvili (1921–1962), son of Stalin Yakov...

is largely based on Leon Trotsky, who led the opposition against Joseph Stalin (Napoleon). Snowball is depicted as an intellectual pig whose leadership...

Szklarska Poręba, People's Republic of Poland, in September 1947. Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union (USSR), called the conference in response...

audience of four of the most powerful men in the country - Stalin, Molotov, Kirov and Voroshilov. Stalin approved the project but 'suggested' that Dovzhenko's...

proposal to Stalin for a tripartite agreement with Britain and France. The following day, Litvinov saw Stalin to discuss his draft, which Stalin approved...

War. Shaposhnikov was one of the foremost military theorists during the Stalin-era. His most important work, Mozg Armii ("The Brain of the Army"), is considered...

Erick Stalin Morillo Calderón (19 February 2000 – 30 September 2023) was a Peruvian footballer who played as a right-back. Morillo was a product of the...

appointed to the Directorate of Military Training. In 1939, after Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, he was appointed deputy chief of operations of the Red Army...

accelerate the program of industrialization in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Other academics conclude policies were intentionally designed to cause...

within its ranks. This process intensified with the rise to power of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. The "Third Period" (1928–1933) saw the Comintern adopt...

Vladimir Lenin. The first issue that Vareikis edited had a picture of Joseph Stalin on its front cover. From January 1926 to April 1928  he was secretary of...

Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. Naftëtari Qyteti Stalin qualified for a promotion/relegation playoff after finishing runners-up...

distributed to the Red Army in their fight against the Axis powers by 1945. Stalin and the Communist Party's Central Committee knew that Hitler would eventually...

Grūtas Park (Lithuanian: Grūto parkas; also unofficially known as Stalin's World) is a socialist realism museum with a sculpture garden of Soviet-era statues...

by Vasily A. Velichko, a Soviet propaganda worker, and passed to Joseph Stalin and to other members of the Politburo. The report remained classified until...

to remote and inhospitable regions. The campaign began following Joseph Stalin's announcement of the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class" on December...

through violence, during the debate Stalin's ally Sergo Ordzhonikidize beat up a Georgian socialist who opposed Stalin's union treaty. Lenin believed that...

Film censorship peaked during the rule of Stalin (1924–1953). Acting as the chief censor for films, Stalin was demanding meticulous revisions in a way...

politician. An Old Bolshevik who rose to power during the rule of Joseph Stalin, he joined the Politburo as a candidate member in 1926 and as a full member...

Union, his efforts to continue his political work and critique of Joseph Stalin from abroad, and the formation of the Fourth International. It examines...

Mariappan (7 May 2021). "DMK Minister List 2021 Tamil Nadu: Names of MK Stalin's cabinet colleagues revealed | Chennai News". The Times of India. Retrieved...

of the security- and police-apparatus during the rule of Joseph Stalin. After Stalin's death he was arrested and executed along with his former chief and...

Ravikumar, from a story written by Ramesh Khanna, and produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin under Red Giant Movies. The film stars Suriya, alongside Nayanthara, Vadivelu...

from a possible Soviet invasion.[citation needed] Soviet premier Joseph Stalin was initially unaware of Adolf Hitler's briefing to his generals that an...

close confidant and friend of former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M. K. Stalin. Poyyamozhi was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from Tiruchirappalli...

at no point an uncontested leader). Some time after the death of hairy Stalin, the actual leader of the USSR was the head of government, Georgy Malenkov...

thriller film written and directed by Gaurav Narayanan, starring Udhayanidhi Stalin and Manjima Mohan, with Daniel Balaji, Soori, R. K. Suresh, and Radhika...

The State Stalin Prize, usually called the Stalin Prize, existed from 1941 to 1954, although some sources give a termination date of 1952. It essentially...

Tamil-language comedy drama film directed by Priyadarshan, starring Udhayanidhi Stalin and Namitha Pramod. It is a remake of the 2016 Malayalam-language film Maheshinte...

Empowerment in the ministry headed by Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M. K. Stalin, the third son of the former chief minister M. Karunanidhi. "Tamil Nadu...

Georgian serf in Geri, Georgia and the paternal great-grandfather of Joseph Stalin. Zaza was born sometime around 1780 possibly in Geri, but lived in the village...

Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the "attacks" on the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin are part of attacks on Russia's past and the results of World War II. Russian...

distinguished by the reorganisation of the Soviet armed forces after the death of Stalin, resulting in changes to ranks, insignia, and uniforms. In December 1956...

Kingdom would be defeated swiftly were treated with skepticism. In addition, Stalin sought to remain influential in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Those factors resulted...

the Air Defence Forces from 1966 to 1978. Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, he was chosen to personally execute Lavrentiy Beria, the former...

leader Stalin should meet. Eden noted in his diary, 'Took the telegram round to Winston...and he jumped at it'. Churchill proposed to Stalin travelling...

eventually evolved in the 1920s to the Stalin tunic, which was adopted by several political leaders, such as Joseph Stalin. Френч. // Крысин Л.П. Толковый словарь...

Attlee attended 0.5 meetings, Churchill 16.5, de Gaulle 1, Roosevelt 12, Stalin 7, and Truman 1. For some of the major wartime conference meetings involving...

the peninsula under North Korea's rule. Kim outlived his allies, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, by over four and almost two decades, respectively, and remained...

former commissar of the People's Commissariat for State Control, Joseph Stalin, was placed in charge of the newly formed agency, Rabkrin, which was to...

KF Tekstilisti Stalin is a former Albanian football club which competed in the Albanian Superliga and Albanian First Division until it dissolved in 1976...

loyalty to the Communist Party, various Soviet leaders, including Joseph Stalin, criticized and reprimanded Mekhlis for incompetent military leadership...

was a Soviet Red Army major and the illegitimate third son of Joseph Stalin. Stalin resided in the Siberian village of Kureika during his exile. Here, he...

April 30, 1966 in Saqqezlu, Iran), also known as Mam Hussein and Kurdish Stalin is a Kurdish military leader, serving as the commander-in-chief of the Kurdistan...

embracing the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, an image which became one of the most enduring propaganda symbols of the Stalin era, when it was widespread in...

Russian theater and film director and grandson of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. He directed more than 20 plays at The Moscow Theater, and also directed...

intimately entwined with those of the party. By the late 1920s, Joseph Stalin consolidated the regime's control over the country's economy and society...

were demoralized by the bitter split between the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin, who wanted to end the war, and Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, who wanted...

The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties is a book by British historian Robert Conquest which was published in 1968. It gave rise to an alternate...

During Joseph Stalin's rule (1922–1953), many places, mostly cities, in the Soviet Union and other communist countries were named or renamed in honour...

Union who published memoirs about Stalin and his secrets. Bazhanov was the personal secretary of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin from August 1923 to 1925 and held...

also been holding many telegraphs made by Stalin during the Cold War. The archive has been holding Stalin's "Shooting lists" since March 2013. The archive...

Stalin's bunker may refer to: Stalin's bunker, Samara Informal name for Tagansky Protected Command Point, Moscow A bunker under Stalin's Kuntsevo Dacha...

political adversary, of Joseph Stalin, he is primarily known for his book Stalin und die Tragödie Georgiens ("Stalin and the Tragedy of Georgia', Berlin...

allied powers (such as Ferdinand Foch on the Western Front in 1918 or Joseph Stalin on the Eastern Front in 1945), or if a senior military officer becomes a...

Joseph Stalin regimes. It was also the first confrontation between the Left Opposition (led by Leon Trotsky) and the "troika" (led by Stalin, Grigory...

The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin or (Russian: Пиры Валтасара, или Ночь со Сталиным, romanized: Piry Valtasara, ili noch so Stalinym) is...

film written and directed by Jagadish. The film, produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin, stars himself, Nayanthara, Santhanam and Sherin Shringar. The music was...

Harry Truman (US); Joseph Stalin (USSR); Chiang Kai-shek (China) 1950–51: Clement Attlee (UK); Harry Truman (US); Joseph Stalin (USSR); Mao Zedong (Communist...

"Conditioned reflexes and neuron organization". Then in 1949, during the peak of Stalinism, at a conference in Leningrad commemorating the 100th anniversary of Pavlov's...

1929 and 1924 to 1930 respectively. He was one of the accused in Joseph Stalin's show trials during the Great Purge. Rykov joined the Russian Social Democratic...

Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. He was the godfather of Joseph Stalin's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. He was shot during the Great Purge in 1937 and...

Committee majority which was controlled by the troika and derided by Stalin at the time. Stalin's version of the five-year plan was implemented in 1928 and took...

Lenin, Bolshevism's main theorist. Other theoreticians included Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky. While Bolshevism...

copy was pressed from the matrix and given to Stalin. In another apocryphal story, she was awarded the Stalin Prize and donated its monetary portion to the...

second vote because many states, including the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, feared that it could be used to impose limitations on their right to suppress...

War in Soviet historiography, art and propaganda. This was because Joseph Stalin took part in the defense of the city between July and November 1918. During...

From Bryan to Stalin is the first volume of political memoirs published by the American radical trade union organizer William Z. Foster (1881–1961). The...

Churchill were wary of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin. However, both developed policies with an understanding that Soviet cooperation...

jurist and diplomat. He is best known as a state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin's Moscow Trials and in the Nuremberg trials. He was the Soviet Foreign Minister...

ZiS (Russian: Zavod imeni Stalina, 'Factory named for Stalin') may refer to: Zavod imeni Likhacheva of Moscow, formerly Automotive Factory No. 2 Zavod...

teacher. She was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1936 and awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946. Maria Litvinenko was born in Kiev, then part of the Russian...

early as July 1941, Stalin asked Britain to invade northern France, but Britain was in no position to carry out such a request. Stalin had also requested...

suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 84. Chief Minister M. K. Stalin, as president of the DMK, mourned that he lost "the last shoulder and ideological...

CPGB-ML praises communist leaders such as Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, Enver Hoxha and Fidel Castro. The party opposes...

United States arrived in the late 1920s. After Lenin died in 1924, Joseph Stalin, became leader. He transformed the country in the 1930s into an industrial...

Speech", which denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. Delegates at this Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were...

Minister for Law, Courts, Prisons and Prevention of Corruption in M. K. Stalin ministry from 2021 to 2025. Regupathy was previously a member of the 14th...

All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was a label formulated by Joseph Stalin in Autumn of 1928 for the opposition against certain measures included within...

and Stalin side by side. A March 1953 plan, never implemented, called for the construction of a Pantheon in which the bodies of Lenin and Stalin would...

a pro-peasant political faction organized against Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in the early 1930s and as the primary author of a 200-page oppositional...

derived from (Karl) Marx, (Friedrich) Engels, (Vladimir) Lenin and (Joseph) Stalin. MELS emerged as a study group inspired by Mao Zedong and Pan-Africanism...

specializing in Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin. His research on the Gestapo argued that Nazi terror relied heavily on denunciations...

translator of French. She was the granddaughter of Joseph Stalin, the daughter of Stalin's elder son, Yakov Dzhugashvili. She consistently challenged...

and Marxism–Leninism–Maoism. The concept was first introduced by Joseph Stalin in his 1924 work The Foundations of Leninism and later expanded upon in...

Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader Joseph Stalin in the television film Stalin (1992), which earned him another Golden Globe Award for Best...

loaded than the issue of the policies of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin towards Nazi Germany between the Nazi seizure of power and the German invasion...

Mariappan, ed. (7 May 2021). "MK Stalin becomes Tamil Nadu chief minister". The Hindu. S Kumaresan, ed. (7 May 2021). "Stalin's first cabinet in Tamil Nadu...

was the son of Yakov Dzhugashvili, the eldest son of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and gained attention as a defender of his grandfather's legacy. Dzhugashvili...

to Moscow, and gained British citizenship later that year. In the late Stalin era it was reported that "the number of foreigners visiting the Soviet Union...

held significant symbolic importance because it bore the name of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet supreme leader. The German military first clashed with the Red...

were first known as Puna Qyteti Stalin, then Spartaku Qyteti Stalin and for most of the time Naftëtari Qyteti Stalin. Naftëtari played their final season...

Christoph Friedrich von Stälin (4 August 1805, in Calw – 12 August 1873, in Stuttgart) was a German librarian and historian. He was the father of archivist...

Berliners had joked that Stalin would yet joint the Anti-Comintern Pact himself. Stalin proposed a toast to Hitler, and Stalin and Molotov repeatedly toasted...

the late 1940s and 1950s when Stalin was dying. This double filled in for Stalin for media events and at times when Stalin had to meet government functionaries...

an ensemble cast including Karthik, Pandiyan, Radha Ravi, Kishmu, M. K. Stalin (in his acting debut), Seetha and Madhuri. It is based on Karunanidhi's...

"totalitarian model" of the Soviet Union, stressing the absolute nature of Joseph Stalin's power. The "totalitarian model" was first outlined in the 1950s by political...

Academy of Sciences Range, was named Stalin Peak (Russian: Пик Ста́лина, romanized: Pik Stálina), after Joseph Stalin. In 1962, as part of Khrushchev's nationwide...

around the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blast, where a special team under officer Stalin Manimaran, arrests Babu Mather alias Babu Sait, a local community leader...

repression in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938, orchestrated by Joseph Stalin and carried out by the NKVD under Genrikh Yagoda and later Nikolai Yezhov...

microbiologist who served in the late 1920s and 1930s as chief scientist of Stalin's offensive biological weapons programme. Velikanov was born on the 7 November...

an Indian politician Who previously served as Minister of Forests in the stalin ministry. He is a doctor from Rasipuram, Tamilnadu. He is a member of DMK...

Joseph Stalin. In July 1928, Kosior was appointed General Secretary of the Ukrainian SSR Communist Party. His return coincided with Stalin's decision...

showed how the careers of Hitler and Joseph Stalin fed off each other to some extent. Bullock argued that Stalin's ability to consolidate power in his home...

Joseph Stalin. She was given to Stalin by Wilhelmina of the Netherlands as a gift for his 70th birthday. Stalin gave Milka to his son Vasily Stalin as he...

Sarah Davies is a historian specializing in the Soviet Union during the Stalin era. She is a professor of history at Durham University in Durham, England...

airstrikes. Critical Soviet errors by several staff officers and by Joseph Stalin, who failed to accurately estimate the 6th Army's potential and overestimated...

Abakumov is now seen by historians as part of a deliberate strategy by Joseph Stalin to limit Beria's influence after the end of the war. Kruglov's authority...

application as Marxism–Leninism began later in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam are the only communist states...

Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia and Karelo-Finnish Republic. —Joseph Stalin in a public speech broadcast in Moscow during the Second Battle of Kiev...

He directed nine films between 1981 and 1999. His film Stalin's Disciples (in Hebrew Stalin's Children, ילדי סטאלין), was screened in the Un Certain Regard...

but they did it on the orders from Stalin himself. There was indeed a secret bloc of oppositions against Stalin. Trotskyists and rightist communists...

powerful figures in the Soviet regime, with Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin. In November 1917, Sverdlov was elected chairman of the All-Russian Central...

between Stalin and Tito in 1948, Albania, under the leadership of Enver Hoxha, initially turned to the Soviet Union. Albania hoped for Stalin's support...

personally interrogated by Stalin the day after the assassination, an unheard-of event for a party leader such as Stalin, "Comrade Stalin personally directed...

the magazine, their complicity and the scapegoating of the Josselsons. Stalin by Picasso consists of a book and a film, as well as an outdoor banner,...

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine is a 2017 non-fiction book by American-Polish historian Anne Applebaum, focusing on the history of the Holodomor. The...

available to the Soviets only much later. Facing a tighter deadline from Stalin, Kurchatov relied upon foreign data by choosing the Gaseous diffusion method...

talked about Stalin and the USSR. Berlin comments on his relations with Stalin, saying: "Kojéve was an ingenious thinker and imagined that Stalin was one too...

politically pleasing to Stalin. After Stalin died in 1953, he was replaced by Nikita Khrushchev, who proceeded to liberalize the Stalin era laws regarding...

Seventeen Moments in Soviet History. 2015-08-18. Retrieved 2018-04-19. Stalin (1935). Siegelbaum & Sokolov (2000), p. /page/18/mode/2up 19. Siegelbaum...

Sikorski, an important war ally of the West, negotiated in Moscow with Joseph Stalin and they agreed to form a Polish army in the Soviet Union, intended to fight...

Social-Democratic movement in the Caucasus and one of Joseph Stalin's teachers. He went to the same seminary as Stalin and had hit his teacher for insulting the Georgian...

country's anti-cosmopolitan campaign, which began in 1946 and continued until Stalin's death in 1953, as part of an assault on "bourgeois Western influences"...

annually but whose meetings became less frequent, particularly under Joseph Stalin (dominant from the late 1920s to 1953). Party Congresses would elect a Central...

especially harsh. Per a 1941 Stalin directive, Red Army officers and soldiers were to "fight to the last" rather than surrender; Stalin stated: "There are no...

the growing political conflicts he faced, including the rise of Joseph Stalin. It details the debates within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,...

1988, Sandro meets Joseph Stalin at a banquet. Stalin is a recurring character in the stories. In "Belshazzar's Feast" Stalin is gradually revealed as...

La Mort de Staline (English: The Death of Stalin) is a series of French satirical-biographical graphic novels. The two volumes were created by artist Thierry...

or executed by the late 1930s, as a result of the Great Purge by Joseph Stalin. Initially, the term "Old Bolshevik" referred to Bolsheviks who joined the...

the Austro-Hungarian empire. Stalin reported back to Moscow with his ideas for the policy. It was summarized in Stalin's pamphlet (his first scholarly...

ally Lev Kamenev, in order to strengthen opposition against the Joseph Stalin-led Centre. The United Opposition demanded, among other things, greater...

instrument of the state since the October Revolution. It culminated during the Stalin era, then declined, but it continued to exist during the "Khrushchev Thaw"...

Powers, the Soviet government withdrew to Taganrog. On April 4, 1918 Joseph Stalin telegraphed Volodymyr Zatonsky with the following: I decisively protest...

Soviet prosecutor seeking justice for a political prisoner during Joseph Stalin's ongoing Great Purge. The film had its world premiere in the main competition...

the height of the apartheid era. In The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994; new edition, 2003), Hochschild chronicles the six months he spent...

village-level empowerment programs. "DMK govt in Tamil Nadu: Names of MK Stalin's cabinet colleagues revealed". Julie Mariappan. The Times of India. 6 May...

Ryazan-class steamship (formerly Iosif Stalin-class) is a class of Russian river passenger ships. It is named after the city of Ryazan. Ryazan were two-deck...

declaring revolution against them. During the first five-year plan, Joseph Stalin's all-out campaign to take land ownership and organisation away from the...

Today". Indiatoday.intoday.in. 14 January 2008. Retrieved 8 May 2014. "Is Stalin upset with MK?". Oman Tribune. 14 July 2011. Archived from the original...

the title People's Artist of the USSR (1970) and was a laureate of two Stalin Prizes of the second degree (1947, 1950) and the Lenin Prize (1967). He...

founded in 1949. In 1924, Joseph Stalin, a key Bolshevik follower of Lenin, took power in the Soviet Union. Stalin was supported in his leadership by...

faced growing up in the United States." When Robeson was given the news of Stalin's 1939 non aggression pact with Hitler, also known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop...

scientist and historian. Tucker is best remembered as a biographer of Joseph Stalin and as an analyst of the Soviet political system, which he saw as dynamic...

Autonomous Oblast was created in 1928 by Joseph Stalin, mostly as a place where Jews could be watched by Stalin and his advisors. Tens of thousands of poor...

a rebuttal of Elena Aga Rossi and Victor Zaslavsky's work, Togliatti e Stalin. Il PCI e la politica estera staliniana negli archivi di Mosca, about criticism...

He is best known for his 2017 role as Joseph Stalin in the Armando Iannucci film The Death of Stalin. He has worked many times with Alan Ayckbourn at...

but to accept the demands of their erstwhile ally, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, at the Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences. There was also a lack of...

World War II, Stalin determined to acquire a buffer area against Germany, with pro-Soviet states on its border in an Eastern bloc. Stalin's aims led to...

ssylnoposelentsy) were the whole nationalities resettled during Joseph Stalin's rule (1928–1953). At various times, a number of other terms were used for...

personally by Joseph Stalin, after it was decided by them that they "glorified emigration and White generals". On the other hand, Stalin loved The Days of...

square which included a modern medical university. In 1950, it was renamed Stalin Square and began to host International Workers' Day and October Revolution...

committee was reformed on Joseph Stalin's order in Kuibyshev in April 1942 with official Soviet support. After the war, Stalin and elements of the Ministry...

My Best Friend, General Vasili, the Son of Joseph Stalin (Russian: Мой лучший друг генерал Василий, сын Иосифа, romanized: Moy luchshiy drug, general Vasiliy...

the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during World War II. However, as Joseph Stalin pursued an increasingly anti-Jewish line after the War, Mikhoels's position...

nomination for the HBO film Stalin in 1992 as the Soviet dictator's mother-in-law. Her pair of 1992 performances (Enchanted April and Stalin) marked only the second...

September 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023. "Cyclone Michaung:Palaniswami holds Stalin responsible for 'lack of preparedness'". The Hindu. 10 December 2023. Archived...

used the phrase in his 1988 book Stalin as Revolutionary to describe the mental state of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Mike Tyson described himself having...

Premalatha Vijayakanth confirmed the decision after meeting Chief Minister M. K. Stalin, saying it fulfilled late founder Vijayakanth’s wish. Politics of India...

members: Vladimir Lenin, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Grigori Sokolnikov, and Andrei Bubnov. During the 20th century, politburos...

banner Circle Box Entertainment. The film was distributed by Udhayanidhi Stalin under his banner Red Giant Movies. The film stars Santhanam and Namita Krishnamurthy...

Tamilarasu, brother of M. K. Stalin, Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. His cousins include noted producers Udhayanidhi Stalin and Dhayanidhi Alagiri. Arulnithi...

During his reign, Joseph Stalin increased Communist propaganda and statues across USSR territories exorbitantly. After Stalin’s death in 1953, Nikitia Khrushchev...

Transformation of Nature, also known as Stalin's plan for the transformation of nature, was proposed by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union in the second half...

Affairs (1930). In 1934, American Max Eastman criticized Fischer for Stalinism in a chapter called "The 'Revolution' of April 23, 1932" in his book Artists...

1922 onward. This period spanned the 1917 Russian revolutions to Joseph Stalin's rise to power in 1927. Following the February Revolution in 1917 that deposed...

March 5, 1940, pursuant to a note to Stalin from Lavrenty Beria, the members of the Soviet Politburo (including Stalin) signed an order to execute POWs,...

Joseph Stalin. It was designed by Soviet architects Arkady Mordvinov and Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, and is the second-tallest of the neoclassical Stalin-era...

Though he was the head of state, Shvernik had very little power as Joseph Stalin, the premier at the time, had most of the power due to his position as general...

Packard archives of such a transfer. The top commissars, including Joseph Stalin, owned several Packards and wanted their first effort at a luxury car to...

was supposedly Stalin's 60th birthday, and celebrated by opening a bottle of wine that Stalin had given him. He then wrote to Stalin to say how he had...

reforms. The rise of Joseph Stalin in the late 1920s ushered in an era of intense centralization and totalitarianism. Stalin's rule was characterized by...

military aid for the Spanish Republic and for his book, The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes. Throughout his career, Orlov was also known under the names of...

semi-autobiographical historical novel by Anatoly Rybakov set during the era of Stalin. It recounts the era in the Soviet Union of the build-up to the Congress...

the expense of private family kitchens. Arts during the rule of Joseph Stalin were characterized by the rise and domination of the government-imposed...

Central Committee of the Communist Party (personal chancellery of Joseph Stalin, 1928–1953). Poskrebyshev was born on 7 August 1891, in the village of Uspenskoe...

Director of the Lend-Lease programme Harry Hopkins with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in Moscow. On 30 July 1941 Hopkins briefed journalists at Spaso House, the...

(Hrono) Khlevniuk 2009, p. 22 Khlevniuk, Oleg V. (2009), Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle, translated by Seligman Favorov, Nora, New Haven, Connecticut:...

Nazi Germany in World War II, it was awarded to Premier Joseph Stalin the next day. Stalin, the only person to ever hold this rank, soon came to regret...

Ivanes dze Jughashvili (c. 1850 – 25 August 1909) was the father of Joseph Stalin. Born into a peasant family of serfs in Didi Lilo in Georgia, he moved to...

to criticise Stalin's policy of russification. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) openly criticised Stalin's russification...

Stalin's foreign policy to be an expression of the latter's political cynicism in that "in his alliance with Hitler and on Hitler's initiative Stalin...

transferred to Moscow in August 1938, shortly after Beria had been chosen by Stalin to take over control of the NKVD from Nikolai Yezhov. When Beria took over...

Russian-language sources from the post-Soviet era, such as the study Stalin's Missed Chance, maintain that Soviet policies leading up to the Continuation...