A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.
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Joseph Stalin and the birth of a totalitarian state
Joseph Stalin did not begin life as a conqueror or tyrant. Born in 1878 as Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili in what is now Georgia, he came from poverty, abuse, and instability. His father, an ...
Not surprisingly, Joseph Stalin has been the subject of many biographical studies, in recent years in particular, when formerly closed Soviet archives became open to students of history. Decades ...
Dictators are sensitive about the biographies written about them. Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s ruler from the late 1920s until his death in 1953, was no exception. After commissioning an official ...
Today, March 5, marks the 73rd anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin. Few figures of the 20th century shaped world history as profoundly as the Soviet dictator ...
JOSEPH STALIN, the dictator of the former USSR who died 50 years ago this year, is rightly remembered as one of the most horrible tyrants of the 20th century. But to most people, his name is also ...
Having gained access to secret documents in Russia’s archives, biographer Edvard Radzinsky wrote a comprehensive biography about Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) who, after dismantling the tsarist regime, ...
We seem to have forgotten more or less everything. By David French A new book by Antonia Senior chronicles the careers of five men who betrayed their country — with devastating results. By Jennifer ...
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