Stalin promoted Marxism–Leninism abroad through the Communist International and supported European anti-fascist movements. In 1939, his government signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop …

May 23, 2018 · Various assessments of Stalin and his conduct of Soviet affairs are given in T.H. Rigby, ed., Stalin (1966). Stalin figures prominently in the best account of the purges of the …

May 30, 2025 · Joseph Stalin, the controversial Soviet leader, wielded absolute power and implemented policies that transformed the USSR into a global superpower while leaving …

Iosif Vissarionovič Stalin, born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, December 18, 1878 (O.S. December 6) – March 5, 1953, usually transliterated Josef Stalin, consolidated power to …

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [c] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili); [d] (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a communist revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from …

A leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, Josef Stalin (1879-1953) became the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party as well as the head of the Soviet state. Stalin held extraordinary …

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, the controversial Russian dictator, was born in Georgia in the Russian Empire in the later part of the nineteenth century into a poor family.

Apr 3, 2014 · Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for more than two decades, instituting a reign of death and terror while modernizing Russia and helping to defeat Nazism.

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 his death in 1953, governed the …

Jun 27, 2018 · Stalin, Josef (1879–1953), Communist leader of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century, including World War II and the formative years of the Cold War.Stalin, the pseudonym …