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.

Rogovin insists that it is impossible to understand the purges apart from Stalin’s determination to stamp out all vestiges of Trotsky’s influence which, despite years of repression ...

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 ...

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.

Joseph Stalin served as the leader of the Soviet Union for 29 years from 1924 to 1953 ... With the decree passed in 2020, Putin could be in power as the Russian leader till at least 2036.

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 ...

However, “peak Putin” may already have passed, even if he goes on to break Joseph Stalin’s record of around three decades ... probes into the controversies of his many years of power.

The Conversation Much like Joseph Stalin, the Russian president has used propaganda, the media and government-sanctioned books to present an ahistorical narrative Richard Cohen In the late 1930s ...