In the West, Stalin again became a figure of derision, a power-crazed dictator bent on expanding his empire while oppressing his own people. He died in March 1953, four days after suffering a massive stroke. With no obvious successor, his death left the Soviet Union leaderless and the world...
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. However, he ruled by terror, and millions of his own citizens died during his ...
In the early 1920s, Stalin began plotting to gain power. Before Lenin died in 1924, he expressed misgivings about Stalin's use of power. Nevertheless, Stalin joined in a three-man leadership group, called a troika, to govern the Soviet Union after Lenin's death. He quickly pushed aside ...
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 date is September 2nd, 1945, the year in which The Empire of Japan surrendered thus ending a war in which fifty to seventy million people died, that being World War II. But the surrender of Japan not only meant the ending of the worst war in human history, it also meant the begin...
But as a result of Stalin’s rule, millions and millions of innocent people died. Stalin and Trotsky not only had different principles and beliefs on how the Soviet State should be run, but they also had differing views on how socialism should work. While Stalin wanted “Socialism in one ...
As a young child he (Joseph Goebbels) almost died of pneumonia, accompanied by "terrible fever hallucinations." He survived but remained a"sickly little fellow." Shortly after the turn of the century, Joseph contracted osteomyelitis, one of the "decisive events" of his childhood, as he later...
Joseph Stalin, the controversial Soviet leader, wielded absolute power and implemented policies that transformed the USSR into a global superpower while leaving behind a legacy of repression and millions of lives lost.
Leon Trotsky, communist theorist and agitator who unsuccessfully struggled against Joseph Stalin for power in the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin’s death.