71 years ago today, on March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin died ... After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin began consolidating power based on his key role in that aforementioned revolution ...

On the year’s shortest day ... Once in a plea for greater industrial, and hence military power, Joseph Stalin said: “Old Russia was continually beaten because of backwardness.

How did Stalin ... Joseph marries his first wife Ketevan Svanidze in 1906. She comes from a poor family of minor nobility. Ketevan gives birth to their son Yakov Dzhugashvili the following year.

In the last years of Stalin's life, he once more gave ... In the 1920s Khrushchev began his rapid rise to power and by the time Joseph Stalin died in March 1953, he was secretary of the Central ...

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone ... Czechoslovakia and Ukraine. After Stalin's death in 1953, there was a power struggle in the USSR. By the mid-1950s the dominant Soviet ...