Joseph stalin

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He was the first general secretary of the communist party of the Soviet Union. During the period of his regime famine affected t...

Lenin and Stalin in Gorky. Stalin with pockmarks.

“Lenin and Stalin at Gorki, just outside Moscow, 1922”

At a time when intellectual fashion was on the Left, historian Robert Conquest had the guts to lay out, in devastating detail, the truth about the blood-soaked Soviet experiment.

Karl Marx watching over Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin and Kim il-Sung, shortly before the Korean War, late 1940′s

Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin (1879 — 1953), taken from a police file. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Stalin was not his name. Born in Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1878, Ioseb Jughashvili was the son of a failing cobbler and a housemaid. His father Besarion was an alcoholic, and,...

Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) 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 brutal reign.