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Hace 3 días · Publicly, the cause of death was given as appendicitis; Stalin also concealed the real cause of death from his children. Stalin's friends noted that he underwent a significant change following her suicide, becoming emotionally harder.
Hace 3 días · Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953, in Moscow. His death triggered a leadership scramble within the Soviet Communist Party, and Nikita Khrushchev ultimately emerged as Stalin’s successor.
Hace 1 día · Stalinism is used to describe the period during which Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union while serving as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to his death on 5 March 1953.
Hace 2 días · Within five years of the death of Lenin, Joseph Stalin completed his rise to power and was the leader of the Soviet Union who theorised and applied the socialist theories of Lenin and Karl Marx as political expediencies used to realise his plans for the Soviet Union and for world socialism.
Hace 3 días · BBC Historian David Reynolds delves into the enigmatic persona of Joseph Stalin. Through riveting historical accounts and expert analysis, the two-part documentary navigates Stalin's dual...
Hace 5 días · Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. The capital was Moscow, then and now the capital of Russia.
Hace 4 días · Joseph Stalin’s reign was an era of terror when everyone, from minister to peasant, could face a lengthy prison sentence or the death penalty for even minor crimes. Here, we present the stories...
