Joseph Stalin in World War 2 On August 28, 1939, the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin, signed a non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler to keep Russia from being invaded by the mighty Nazi army. The pact also allowed Stalin and Hitler to divide Poland between themselves. At the same time, ...
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.
The Soviet Union Under Stalin Joseph Stalin and World War II Later Years How Did Joseph Stalin Die? How Many People Did Joseph Stalin Kill? Sources Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transfor...
Using official sources, rather than memoirs or diaries, Li Yuzhen reconstructs attempts by Chiang Kaishek to secure the direct participation of Soviet forces in China. Chiang appealed to Stalin to order his forces into China on three occasions at moments of great crisis. Although Stalin rejected ...
Joseph Stalin(1878-1953) was the dictatorial leader of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century, from the late 1920s until his death in 1953. Stalin’s mistrust of Western governments, his insincere negotiations at the end of World War II and his determination to expand Soviet communism...
Joseph Stalin was a very powerful and murderous dictator (Joseph 1). He was the second leader of the Soviet Union (Stalin 1). Joseph Stalin’s real name was...
[Photo] James Byrnes, Andrei Gromyko, Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov at Stalin's residence during the Potsdam Conference, Germany, 18 Jul 1945, photo 1 of 2 | World War II Database
Svanidze. She died some three years later and left a son, Jacob, whom his father treated withcontempt, calling him a weakling after an unsuccessful suicide attempt in the late 1920s; when Jacob was taken prisoner by the Germans duringWorld War II, Stalin refused a German offer to exchange...
Leon Trotsky, communist theorist and agitator who unsuccessfully struggled against Joseph Stalin for power in the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin’s death.