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32 matches to Stalin
Beria, Laurenty. 1899-1953. Soviet commisar in charge of Stalin’s security police 1938-.
Bukharin, Nikolay. 1888-1938. Russian Bolshevik. Shot in Stalin’s Purge. Rehabilitated 1988.
Chuikov, Vasily. 1900-82. Russian WWII General. Defended Stalingrad.
De-Stalinization. 1956. Soviet denunciation of Stalin’s regime and policies.
Doctors’ Plot. 1953. Stalinist conspiracy.
International. Socialist revolutionary workers movements. First. 1864-76. Founded by Marx in London. Second. 1889-1914. Paris. IFTU. Revived in 1920s. Third. 1919-43. =COMINTERN. Stalin’s Vehicle for world-wide Communist Revolution. Fourth. 1938-53. Trotsky’s Transitional Program for reform.
Joukov, Gheorgi. 1896-1974. Soviet marshal, won battles of Moscow 1941, Stalingrad 1943.
Kamenev, Lev. 1883-1936. Russian Bolshevik leader in Triumvirate with Stalin, Zinoviev, 1922-. Executed in Purge.
Leningrad Affair. 1948. Purge of Zhdanov associates by Stalin.
Malenkov, Georgi. 1902-88. Stalinist Soviet premier 1953-5. Denounced 1957.
Molotov. 1890-1986. Soviet Stalinist Prime Minister 1930-41.
Novotny, Antonin. 1904-75. Stalinist Czech leader 1953-68. Deposed.
Politburo. 1917~. Soviet governing body, arm of Communist Party. Abolished by Stalin 1952-66.
Potsdam Agreement. 1945. Truman, Stalin, Attlee agree to draw up peace treaties, reduce German industrialization, restore democracy in Europe after WWII. Outlawed Nazism. Divided Germany.
Purge. 1936-8. Stalin’s trials to eliminate political rivals with fabricated charges. 3 million dead. Executions, forced labour, internal exile.
Rákosi, Mátyás. 1892-1971. Stalinist Hungarian leader 1945-56. Fled before 1956 uprising.
Rakovsky, Khristian. 1873-?. Russian Communist leader. Opposed Stalin. Imprisoned 1938.
Right Opposition. 1928-29. Communists opponents of Stalin within Central Committee.
Rykov, Aleksey. 1881-1938. Russian Bolshevik leader. Opposed Stalin. Rehabilitated 1988.
Secret Speech. 1956. Khrushchev call for destalinization in USSR leads to Hungarian, Polish uprisings.
Shostakovich, Dmitri. 1906-75. Russian. Composed complex profound intense personal works. Rebuked by Stalin. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk 1934.
Slansky Trial. 1952. Jewish Czech communists purged during Stalin anti-semitism. Those executed were restored to party membership 1968.
Stalin, Joseph. 1879-1953. Soviet bloodthirsty revolutionary. Leader 1924-. 5 Year Plans modernized Russia. 1928 Collectivization. 1932- Dictator. 1936-8 Purge. Turned Marxism to Nationalism and Imperialism. World Socialist Revolution under USSR. 1952 abolished Politburo.
Stalin Line. Soviet defensive fortifications along Polish border.
Stalingrad. Tsaritsyn. 1925 =Stalingrad. 1961 =Volgograd.