Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as premier from 1941 until his death. Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the Communist Party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, and his version of it is referred to as Stalinism.

1942 major battle of World War II

Soviet politician, statesman and diplomat (1890–1986)

1945 WWII Allied discussion of post-war reorganization

The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian famine, was a massive man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.

thumb|A punishment cell block in one of the subcamps of Vorkutlag, 1945 The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word Gulag originally referred only to the division of the Soviet secret police that was in charge of running 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 of forced labor throughout the Soviet era. The abbreviation GULAG (ГУЛАГ) stands for "Glávnoye upravléniye ispravítel'no-trudovýkh lageréy " (Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере

term symbolizing the ideological-political conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe during the Cold War

thumb|Official portrait of Joseph Stalin from 1945

meeting of the Allied heads of state near the end of World War II

Soviet mass murder of ca. 22,000 Poles in several parts of European Russia, including in the Katyn forest, which became a pars pro toto name for the whole massacre

strategy meeting of the leaders of the USSR, the USA, and the UK in Tehran in 1943 during World War 2

ethnic cleansing carried out by the Soviet Union during World War II

transfer and deportation of people in the Soviet Union

ethnic cleansing of Chechens and Ingush in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin

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ideology holding the United States as unique among nations; facet of nationalism in the United States

Order issued by Joseph Stalin that coined the phrase "Not one step back!"

political split between Josip Broz and Joseph Stalin of year 1948

Bolshevism (derived from Bolshevik) is a revolutionary socialist current of Soviet Leninist and later Marxist–Leninist political thought and political regime associated with the formation of a rigidly centralized, cohesive and disciplined party of social revolution, focused on overthrowing the existing capitalist state system, seizing power and establishing the "dictatorship of the proletariat".

1930–1933 man-made famine that affected Soviet Kazakhstan

The RDS-1 (), also known as First Lightning (), was the first nuclear weapons test that was conducted by the Soviet Union. It was detonated on 29 August 1949 at 7:00 a.m. Kazakhstan Time (decree time) (UTC+06:00), at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and yielded 22 kilotons of TNT.

Man-made famine that mainly affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union

Robbery of bank stagecoach by Bolsheviks in 1907

series of Soviet heavy tanks, made 1943 to 1966 (in service to 1990)

secret informal agreement between British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin during the Fourth Moscow Conference in October 1944

involvement of the Soviet Union in World War II

the cult of personality around Joseph Stalin

human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup

proposed military rank of the Soviet Union

Russian revolutionary (1882-1922)

talks concerning the Soviet Union's potential entry as a fourth Axis Power in World War II

Soviet political leader's 1953 death

opposition to Stalinism from those on the left-wing

conference Held in Moscow

King George VI's historic sword of the United Kingdom

lack of food distribution in the Eurasian country

1941 Soviet Army command prohibiting surrender

1941 NKVD mass execution of Oryol prisoners

Internal dispute between Soviet leadership involving Georgia's admittance to the USSR

Soviet government agency

Military parade dedicated to the anniversary of the October Revolution during the Battle of Moscow

Soviet theatre director

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Soviet agricultural and irrigation project

organised mass persecution of the Greeks of the Soviet Union

extent to which Stalin was antisemitic

atrocities of the Soviet Union considered genocides by historians

alleged secret speech given by Stalin in 1939 to the Politburo, justifying war in Europe and collaboration with Nazi Germany

execution of many senior Soviet officers by Stalin

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1922 Soviet show trial of anti-Bolshevik leftists

Russian diplomat and translator (1916-1998)

group of main Allied powers in WWII

1935 attempt to assassinate Stalin