Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin (Russian) (Georgian)

Stalin at the Tehran Conference in 1943. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union In office 3 April 1922 16 October 1952 Preceded by Vyacheslav Molotov (as Responsible Secretary) Nikita Khrushchev (office reestablished) Chairman of the Council of Ministers In office 6 May 1941 5 March 1953 FirstDeputies Nikolai Voznesensky Vyacheslav Molotov Vyacheslav Molotov Georgy Malenkov People's Commissar for Defense of the Soviet Union In office 19 July 1941 25 February 1946 Premier Preceded by Succeeded by Himself Semyon Timoshenko Nikolai Bulganin after vacancy Member of the Secretariat

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In office 3 April 1922 5 March 1953 Full member of the Presidium In office 25 March 1919 5 March 1953 Member of the Orgburo In office 16 January 1919 5 March 1953 Personal details

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18 December 1878 Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire 5 March 1953 (aged74) Kuntsevo Dacha near Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Lenin's Mausoleum, Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (9 March 1953 - 31 October 1961) Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow, Russian Federation (from 31 October 1961) Georgian Communist Party of the Soviet Union Ekaterina Svanidze (19061907) Nadezhda Alliluyeva (19191932) Yakov Dzhugashvili, Vasily Dzhugashvili, Svetlana Alliluyeva None (atheist), formerly Georgian Orthodox

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Years of service 19431953 Rank Marshal of the Soviet Union (19431945) Generalissimus of the Soviet Union (19451953) All (supreme commander) World War II

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Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: ; born Ioseb Besarionis je Juavili, Georgian: , pronounced[isb bsarinis dze duavili]; 18 December 1878[1] 5 March 1953) was the de facto leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin was appointed General Secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922. He subsequently managed to consolidate power following the 1924 death of Vladimir Lenin through expanding the functions of his role, all the while eliminating any opposition. He held this nominal post until abolishing it in 1952, concurrently serving as the Premier of the Soviet Union after establishing the position in 1941.

Joseph Stalin Under Joseph Stalin's rule, the concept of "socialism in one country" became a central tenet of Soviet society. He replaced the New Economic Policy introduced by Lenin in the early 1920s with a highly centralised command economy, launching a period of industrialization and collectivization that resulted in the rapid transformation of the USSR from an agrarian society into an industrial power.[2] However, the economic changes coincided with the imprisonment of millions of people in Soviet correctional labour camps[] and the deportation of many others to remote areas.[] The initial upheaval in agriculture disrupted food production and contributed to the catastrophic Soviet famine of 19321933, known as the Holodomor in Ukraine. Later, in a period that lasted from 193639, Stalin instituted a campaign against alleged enemies of his regime called the Great Purge, in which hundreds of thousands were executed. Major figures in the Communist Party, such as the old Bolsheviks, Leon Trotsky, and several Red Army leaders were killed after being convicted of plotting to overthrow the government and Stalin.[3] In August 1939, Stalin entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany that divided their influence within Eastern Europe, but Germany later violated the agreement and launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Despite heavy human and territorial losses, Soviet forces managed to halt the Nazi incursion after the decisive battles of Moscow and Stalingrad. After defeating the Axis powers on the Eastern Front, the Red Army captured Berlin in May 1945, effectively ending the war in Europe for the Allies.[4][5] The Soviet Union subsequently emerged as one of two recognized world superpowers, the other being the United States.[6] The Yalta and Potsdam conferences established communist governments loyal to the Soviet Union in the Eastern Bloc countries as buffer states, which Stalin deemed necessary in case of another invasion. He also fostered close relations with Mao Zedong in China and Kim Il-sung in North Korea. Stalin led the Soviet Union through its post-war reconstruction phase, which saw a significant rise in tension with the Western world that would later be known as the Cold War. During this period, the USSR became the second country in the world to successfully develop a nuclear weapon, as well as launching the Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature in response to another widespread famine and the Great Construction Projects of Communism. In the years following his death, Stalin and his regime have been condemned on numerous occasions, most notably in 1956 when his successor Nikita Khrushchev denounced his legacy and initiated a process of de-Stalinization. He remains a controversial figure today, with many regarding him as a tyrant;[7] however, popular opinion within the Russian Federation is mixed.[8][9][10]

Early life

Ioseb aged 16 (left) and 23 (right)

Stalin was born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (Georgian: ; Russian: , Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) on 18 December 1878[1] in the town of Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Georgia). His mother Ketevan Geladze was a housekeeper who took whatever job opportunities were available and found employment at a couture shop for 17 years; his father Besarion Jughashvili worked as a cobbler. The couple had previously given birth to three sons, but two died during infancy. The family surname means son of Juga, and is derived from either the Ossetian Juga (meaning 'herd') or the old Georgian djuga (meaning 'steel'). Ioseb eventually adopted the name "Stalin" from the Russian word for "steel;" he used it as an alias and pen name in his published works.

Joseph Stalin As a child, Ioseb was plagued with numerous health issues. He was born with two adjoined toes on his left foot.[11] His face was left permanently scarred after he contracted smallpox at the age of 7. Later, at age 12, he injured his left arm in an accident involving a horse-drawn carriage, rendering it shorter and stiffer than its counterpart. During the first several years of his life, Stalin and his mother were subjected to severe physical abuse at the hands of his father,[12] who was severely alcoholic. When Geladze enrolled Ioseb into an Orthodox priesthood school against her husband's wishes, Jughashvili went on a public rampage. He was banished from Gori for assaulting its police chief. He subsequently moved to Tiflis (Tbilisi), leaving his family behind. When Stalin was sixteen, he received a scholarship to attend the Georgian Orthodox Tiflis Spiritual Seminary in Tbilisi. Although his performance had been satisfactory, he was expelled in 1899 after missing his final exams. The seminary's records also suggest that he was unable to pay his tuition fees.[13] The official Soviet version states that he was expelled for reading illegal literature and for forming a Social Democratic study circle.[14] Around this time, Stalin discovered the writings of Vladimir Lenin and decided to become a Marxist revolutionary, eventually joining the Bolsheviks in 1903 and becoming one of their chief operatives in the Caucasus. His activities included connecting with workers and inciting strikes. The years of 1900-1903 were years of industrial depression. Not surprisingly then, numerous strikes broke out in 1904. One strike was the strike of oil workers in Baku in Georgia which broke out on December 13, 1904.[15] Stalin and Prokofy Djaparidze, another Bolshevik organizer, became involved in this strike. The strike was ended successfully on December 31, 1904, when the oil workers became the first workers in Russian history to sign a collective bargaining agreement with the oil owners.[16] Another activity of Stalin and the other Bolshevik organizers was to spread propaganda. Toward this end, Stalin wrote an article in May 1905 called "Briefly About the Disagreements in the Party" which was a defense of Bolshevik goals for the Russian Social Democratic Party against attacks from the Mensheviks.[17] In January 1906, Stalin wrote an article called "Two Clashes: Concerning January 9" which dealt with the first anniversary of the peaceful march and demonstration of Father George Gapon and a huge crowd of workers when they marched on the Winter Palace.[18] This march on January 9, 1905, was the most noteworthy event of the 1905 Russian Revolution and resulted in the events of Bloody Sunday when 1000 demonstrators were shot by the guards at the Winter Palace. Other activities of Stalin and the organizers in the Georgian region of the Russian Empire included organizing paramilitaries, spreading propaganda, and raising money through bank robberies, ransom kidnappings, and extortion. Particularly notable was his participation in the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery, which resulted in 40 deaths and the theft of 341,000 rubles (roughly US $3.4 million when adjusted for inflation). The incident would have long-lasting ramifications for his political career.[19] Stalin's crimes began to draw the attention of the Okhrana (the secret police of the Russian Empire), and he was sent to Siberia on seven different occasions. During his final exile, he was conscripted by the Russian army to fight in World War I, but he was deemed unfit for service due to his deformed left arm.[20]

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Revolution, Civil War, and Polish-Soviet War

Role during the Russian Revolution of 1917
After returning to Petrograd on March 12, 1917 from exile in the village of Kostino and later in the village of Kureika in the region of Turukhansk in northern Siberia.[22] Returning with Stalin to St. Petersburg was Lev B. Kamenev.[23] By virtue of their seniority in the Party, Stalin and Kamenev replaced Vyacheslav Molotov and Alexander Shlyapnikov on the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party.[24] Writing in Pravda, the official newspaper of the Party, both Stalin and Kamenev reflected a shift in Party policy toward Alexander Kerensky's provisional government.[25] Whereas, previously, the Russian Bureau under Shyapnikov had been active role in fighting the tsarist government. urging Russian soldiers at the front to engage in fraternization with Here he is shown on a 1911 information card from the files of the Russian police in Saint enemy German and Austrian soldiers to force an end to the war and/or [21] Petersburg. turning the war into a class war against the capitalist imperialist class,[24] Stalin now wrote in Pravda that the slogans like "Down with the War" were not enough.[26] There was now a need for soldiers and workers to "come out openly and publicly" in mass demonstrations to put real "pressure on the Kerensky provisional government" to immediately negotiate an end to the war.[27] Events were moving so fast during that revolutionary year of 1917, that party policies seemed to change every few weeks. Indeed just a few days later on April 3 (16 new style), Lenin arrived in St. Petersburg returning from his ten (10) year exile in Switzerland. He had brought with him an article called "The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution" which became popularly known as Lenin's "April Theses."[28] After Lenin prevailed at the April 1917 Communist Party conference, Stalin and Pravda shifted to opposing the provisional government. At this conference, Stalin was elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee. In October 1917, the Bolshevik Central Committee voted in favor of an insurrection. On 7 November, from the Smolny Institute, Trotsky, Lenin and the rest of the Central Committee coordinated the insurrection against Kerensky in the 1917 October Revolution. On October 25, 1917 (November 8, 1917 on the new style calendar) the Bolsheviks had stormed the Winter Palace and arrested the Kerensky's Cabinet.
Prior to the revolution of 1917, Stalin played an

Role in the Russian Civil War, 19171919

Upon seizing Petrograd, Stalin was appointed People's Commissar for Nationalities' Affairs. Thereafter, civil war broke out in Russia, pitting Lenin's Red Army against the White Army, a loose alliance of anti-Bolshevik forces. Lenin formed a five-member Politburo, which included Stalin and Trotsky. In May 1918, Lenin dispatched Stalin to the city of Tsaritsyn. Through his new allies, Kliment Voroshilov and Semyon Budyonny, Stalin imposed his influence on the military.[citation
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Stalin challenged many of the decisions of Trotsky, ordered the killings of many counter-revolutionaries and former Tsarist officers in the Red Army[citation needed] and burned villages in order to intimidate the

A group of participants in the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party, 1919. In the middle are Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, and Mikhail Kalinin.

Joseph Stalin peasantry into submission and discourage bandit raids on food shipments.[citation needed] In May 1919, in order to stem mass desertions on the Western front, Stalin had deserters and renegades publicly executed as traitors.[29]

Role in the Polish-Soviet War, 19191921

After the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War, Poland invaded Ukraine, starting what became known as the PolishSoviet War, but the Bolsheviks pushed them back into Poland. As commander of the southern front, Stalin was determined to take the Polish-held city of Lviv. This conflicted with the general strategy set by Lenin and Trotsky, which focused on the capture of Warsaw further north. Trotsky's forces engaged those of Polish commander Wadysaw Sikorski at the Battle of Warsaw, but Stalin refused to redirect his troops from Lviv to help. Consequently, the battles for both Lviv and Warsaw were lost, and Stalin was blamed. In August 1920, Stalin returned to Moscow, where he defended himself and resigned his military command. At the Ninth Party Conference on 22 September, Trotsky openly criticized Stalin's behavior.

Rise to power
Stalin played a decisive role in engineering the 1921 Red Army invasion of Georgia, following which he adopted particularly hardline, centralist policies towards Soviet Georgia. This led to the Georgian Affair of 1922 and other repressions.[30][31] Stalin's actions in Georgia created a rift with Lenin, who believed that all the Soviet states should stand equal. Lenin nonetheless considered Stalin to be a loyal ally, and when he got mired in squabbles with Trotsky and other politicians, he decided to give Stalin more power. With the help of Lev Kamenev, Lenin had Stalin appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1922.[32] This post enabled Stalin to appoint many of his allies to government positions. Lenin suffered a stroke in 1922, forcing him into semi-retirement in Gorki. Stalin visited him often, acting as his intermediary with the outside world,[32] but the pair quarreled and their relationship deteriorated.[32] Lenin dictated increasingly disparaging notes on Stalin in what would become his testament. He criticized Stalin's political views, rude manners, and excessive power and ambition, and suggested that Stalin should be removed from the position of General Secretary.[32] During Lenin's semi-retirement, Stalin forged an alliance with Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev against Trotsky. These allies prevented Lenin's Testament from being revealed to the Twelfth Party Congress in April 1923.[32]

Stalin and Vladimir Lenin in 1919.

Lenin died of a heart attack on 21 January 1924. Following Lenin's death, a power struggle began, which involved following seven Politburo members:[33] Nikolai Bukharin, Lev Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Tomsky, Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev. Again, Kamenev and Zinoviev helped to keep Lenin's Testament from going public. Thereafter, Stalin's disputes with Kamenev and Zinoviev intensified. Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev grew increasingly isolated, and were eventually ejected from the Central Committee and then from the Party itself.[32] Kamenev and Zinoviev were later readmitted, but Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union. The Northern Expedition in China became a point of contention over foreign policy by Stalin and Trotsky. Stalin wanted the Communist Party of China to ally itself with the Nationalist Kuomintang, rather than attempt to implement a communist revolution. Trotsky urged the party to oppose the Kuomintang and launch a full-scale revolution. Stalin funded the KMT during the expedition.[34] Stalin countered Trotsky's criticisms by making a secret speech in which he said that the Kuomintang were the only ones capable of defeating the imperialists, that Chiang

Joseph Stalin Kai-shek had funding from the rich merchants, and that his forces were to be utilized until squeezed for all usefulness like a lemon before being discarded.[35] However, Chiang quickly reversed the tables in the Shanghai massacre of 1927 by massacring the membership of the Communist party in Shanghai midway through the Northern Expedition.[36][37] Stalin pushed for more rapid industrialization and central control of the economy, contravening Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP). At the end of 1927, a critical shortfall in grain supplies prompted Stalin to push for the collectivisation of agriculture and order the seizure of grain hoards from kulak farmers.[32][] Nikolai Bukharin and Premier Alexey Rykov opposed these policies and advocated a return to the NEP, but the rest of the Politburo sided with Stalin and removed Bukharin from the Politburo in November 1929. Rykov was fired the following year and was replaced by Vyacheslav Molotov on Stalin's recommendation. In December 1934, the popular Communist Party boss in Leningrad, Sergei Kirov, was murdered. Stalin blamed Kirov's murder on a vast conspiracy of saboteurs and Trotskyites. He launched a massive purge against these internal enemies, putting them on rigged show trials and then having them executed or imprisoned in Siberian Gulags. Among these victims were old enemies, including Bukharin, Rykov, Kamenev and Zinoviev. Stalin made the loyal Nikolai Yezhov head of the secret police, the NKVD, and had him purge the NKVD of veteran Bolsheviks. With no serious opponents left in power, Stalin ended the purges in 1938. Yezhov was held to blame for the excesses of the Great Terror. He was dismissed from office and later executed.

Changes to Soviet society, 19271939

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Stalin vastly increased the scope and power of the state's secret police and intelligence agencies. Under his guiding hand, Soviet intelligence forces began to set up intelligence networks in most of the major nations of the world, including Germany (the famous Rote Kappelle spy ring), Great Britain, France, Japan, and the United States. Stalin made considerable use of the Communist International movement in order to infiltrate agents and to ensure that foreign Communist parties remained pro-Soviet and pro-Stalin. One of the best examples of Stalin's ability to integrate secret police and foreign espionage came in 1940, when he gave approval to the secret police to have Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico.[38]

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Cult of personality
Stalin created a cult of personality in the Soviet Union around both himself and Lenin. Many personality cults in history have been frequently measured and compared to his. Numerous towns, villages and cities were renamed after the Soviet leader (see List of places named after Stalin) and the Stalin Prize and Stalin Peace Prize were named in his honor. He accepted grandiloquent titles (e.g., "Coryphaeus of Science," "Father of Nations," "Brilliant Genius of Humanity," "Great Architect of Communism," "Gardener of Human Happiness," and others), and helped rewrite Soviet history to provide himself a more significant role in the revolution of 1917. At the same time, according to Nikita Khrushchev, he insisted that he be remembered for "the extraordinary modesty characteristic of truly great people."[citation needed] Statues of Stalin depict him at a height and build approximating the very tall Tsar Alexander III, while photographic evidence suggests he was between 5ft 5in and 5ft 6in (165168cm).[citation needed] Trotsky criticized the cult of personality built around Stalin. It reached new levels during World War II, with Stalin's name included in the new Soviet national anthem. Stalin became the focus of literature, poetry, music, paintings and film that exhibited fawning devotion. He was sometimes credited with almost god-like qualities, including the suggestion that he single-handedly won the Second World War. The degree to which Stalin himself relished the cult surrounding him is debatable. The Finnish communist Arvo Tuominen records a sarcastic toast proposed by Stalin at a New Year Party in 1935 in which he said "Comrades! I want to propose a toast to our Patriarch, life and sun, liberator of nations, architect of socialism [he rattled off all the appellations applied to him in those days] Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, and I hope this is the first and last speech made to that genius this evening."[39] In a 1956 speech, Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin's cult of personality with these words: "It is impermissible and foreign to the spirit of Marxism-Leninism to elevate one person, to transform him into a superman possessing supernatural characteristics akin to those of a god."[citation needed]

Purges and deportations

Purges and executions

Joseph Stalin

Left: Beria's January 1940 letter to Stalin asking permission to execute 346 "enemies of the CPSU and of the Soviet authorities" who conducted "counter-revolutionary, right-Trotskyite plotting and spying activities" Middle: Stalin's handwriting: "" (support). Right: The Politburo's decision is signed by Stalin Stalin, as head of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, consolidated near-absolute power in the 1930s with a Great Purge of the party that was justified as an attempt to expel "opportunists" and "counter-revolutionary infiltrators".[40][41] Those targeted by the purge were often expelled from the party, however more severe measures ranged from banishment to the Gulag labor camps to execution after trials held by NKVD troikas.[40][42][43] In the 1930s, Stalin apparently became increasingly worried about the growing popularity of the Leningrad party boss Sergei Kirov. At the 1934 Party Congress where the vote for the new Central Committee was held, Kirov received only three negative votes, the fewest of any candidate, while Stalin received at least over a hundred negative votes.[44][45] After the assassination of Kirov, which may have been orchestrated by Stalin, Stalin invented a detailed scheme to implicate opposition leaders in the murder, including Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev.[46] The investigations and trials expanded.[47] Stalin passed a new law on "terrorist organizations and terrorist acts" that were to be investigated for no more than ten days, with no prosecution, defense attorneys or appeals, followed by a sentence to be executed "quickly."[48] Thereafter, several trials known as the Moscow Trials were held, but the procedures were replicated throughout the country. Article 58 of the legal code, which listed prohibited anti-Soviet activities as counterrevolutionary crime, was applied in the broadest manner.[49] The flimsiest pretexts were often enough to brand someone an "enemy of the people", starting the cycle of public persecution and abuse, often proceeding to interrogation, torture and deportation, if not death. The Russian word troika gained a new meaning: a quick, simplified trial by a committee of three subordinated to NKVD -NKVD troika- with sentencing carried out within 24 hours.[48] Stalin's hand-picked executioner, Vasili Blokhin, was entrusted with carrying out some of the high profile executions in this period.[50]

Nikolai Yezhov, walking with Stalin in the top photo from the 1930s, was killed in 1940. Following his execution, Yezhov was edited out of the photo by Soviet censors.[51] Such retouching was a common occurrence during Stalin's rule. Many military leaders were convicted of treason and a large-scale purge of Red Army officers followed.[52] The repression of so many formerly high-ranking revolutionaries and party members led Leon Trotsky to claim that a

Joseph Stalin "river of blood" separated Stalin's regime from that of Lenin.[53] In August 1940, Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico, where he had lived in exile since January 1937; this eliminated the last of Stalin's opponents among the former Party leadership.[54] With the exception of Vladimir Milyutin (who died in prison in 1937) and Joseph Stalin himself, all of the members of Lenin's original cabinet who had not succumbed to death from natural causes before the purge were executed. Mass operations of the NKVD also targeted "national contingents" (foreign ethnicities) such as Poles, ethnic Germans, Koreans, etc. A total of 350,000 (144,000 of them Poles) were arrested and 247,157 (110,000 Poles) were executed.[] Many Americans who had emigrated to the Soviet Union during the worst of the Great Depression were executed; others were sent to prison camps or gulags.[55][56] Concurrent with the purges, efforts were made to rewrite the history in Soviet textbooks and other propaganda materials. Notable people executed by NKVD were removed from the texts and photographs as though they never existed. Gradually, the history of revolution was transformed to a story about just two key characters: Lenin and Stalin. In light of revelations from Soviet archives, historians now estimate that nearly 700,000 people (353,074 in 1937 and 328,612 in 1938) were executed in the course of the terror,[57] with the great mass of victims merely "ordinary" Soviet citizens: workers, peasants, homemakers, teachers, priests, musicians, soldiers, pensioners, ballerinas, beggars.[58][59] Many of the executed were interred in mass graves, with some of the major killing and burial sites being Bykivnia, Kurapaty and Butovo.[60] Some Western experts believe the evidence released from the Soviet archives is understated, incomplete or unreliable.[61][62][63][64][65] Stalin personally signed 357 proscription lists in 1937 and 1938 that condemned to execution some 40,000 people, and about 90% of these are confirmed to have been shot.[] At the time, while reviewing one such list, Stalin reportedly muttered to no one in particular: "Who's going to remember all this riff-raff in ten or twenty years time? No one. Who remembers the names now of the boyars Ivan the Terrible got rid of? No one."[66] In addition, Stalin dispatched a contingent of NKVD operatives to Mongolia, established a Mongolian version of the NKVD troika, and unleashed a bloody purge in which tens of thousands were executed as "Japanese Spies." Mongolian ruler Khorloogiin Choibalsan closely followed Stalin's lead.[67] During the 1930s and 1940s, the Soviet leadership sent NKVD squads into other countries to murder defectors and other opponents of the Soviet regime. Victims of such plots included Yevhen Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Rudolf Klement, Alexander Kutepov, Evgeny Miller, Leon Trotsky and the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) leadership in Catalonia (e.g., Andreu Nin).[68] Population transfer Shortly before, during and immediately after World War II, Stalin conducted a series of deportations on a huge scale that profoundly affected the ethnic map of the Soviet Union. It is estimated that between 1941 and 1949 nearly 3.3million[69][70] were deported to Siberia and the Central Asian republics. By some estimates up to 43% of the resettled population died of diseases and malnutrition.[71] Separatism, resistance to Soviet rule and collaboration with the invading Germans were cited as the official reasons for the deportations, rightly or wrongly. Individual circumstances of those spending time in German-occupied territories were not examined. After the brief Nazi occupation of the Caucasus, the entire population of five of the small highland peoples and the Crimean Tatars more than a million people in total were deported without notice or any opportunity to take their possessions.[72] As a result of Stalin's lack of trust in the loyalty of particular ethnicities, ethnic groups such as the Soviet Koreans, the Volga Germans, the Crimean Tatars, the Chechens, and many Poles were forcibly moved out of strategic areas and relocated to places in the central Soviet Union, especially Kazakhstan in Soviet Central Asia. By some estimates, hundreds of thousands of deportees may have died en route.[69]

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Joseph Stalin According to official Soviet estimates, more than 14 million people passed through the Gulag from 1929 to 1953, with a further 7 to 8million being deported and exiled to remote areas of the Soviet Union (including the entire nationalities in several cases).[73] In February 1956, Nikita Khrushchev condemned the deportations as a violation of Leninism, and reversed most of them, although it was not until 1991 that the Tatars, Meskhetians and Volga Germans were allowed to return en masse to their homelands. The deportations had a profound effect on the peoples of the Soviet Union. The memory of the deportations has played a major part in the separatist movements in the Baltic States, Tatarstan and Chechnya, even today.

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Collectivization
Stalin's regime moved to force collectivization of agriculture. This was intended to increase agricultural output from large-scale mechanized farms, to bring the peasantry under more direct political control, and to make tax collection more efficient. Collectivization brought social change on a scale not seen since the abolition of serfdom in 1861 and alienation from control of the land and its produce. Collectivization also meant a drastic drop in living standards for many peasants, and it faced violent reaction among the peasantry. In the first years of collectivization it was estimated that industrial Children are digging up frozen potatoes in the production would rise by 200% and agricultural production by 50%,[74] field of a collective farm, 1933 but these expectations were not realized. Stalin blamed this unanticipated failure on kulaks (rich peasants), who resisted collectivization. However, kulaks proper made up only 4% of the peasant population; the "kulaks" that Stalin targeted included the slightly better-off peasants who took the brunt of violence from the OGPU and the Komsomol. These peasants were about 60% of the population. Those officially defined as "kulaks," "kulak helpers," and later "ex-kulaks" were to be shot, placed into Gulag labor camps, or deported to remote areas of the country, depending on the charge. Archival data indicates that 20,201 people were executed during 1930, the year of Dekulakization.[67] The two-stage progress of collectivizationinterrupted for a year by Stalin's famous editorials, "Dizzy with success"[75] and "Reply to Collective Farm Comrades"[76]is a prime example of his capacity for tactical political withdrawal followed by intensification of initial strategies.

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Famines
Famine affected other parts of the USSR. The death toll from famine in the Soviet Union at this time is estimated at between 5 and 10 million people.[77] The worst crop failure of late tsarist Russia, in 1892, had caused 375,000 to 400,000 deaths.[78] Most modern scholars agree that the famine was caused by the policies of the government of the Soviet Union under Stalin, rather than by natural reasons.[79] According to Alan Bullock, "the total Soviet grain crop was no worse than that of 1931... it was not a crop failure but the excessive demands of the state, ruthlessly enforced, that cost the lives of as many as five million Ukrainian peasants." Stalin refused to release large grain reserves that could have alleviated the famine, while continuing to export grain; he was convinced that the Ukrainian peasants had hidden grain away and strictly enforced draconian new collective-farm theft laws in response.[80][] Other historians hold it was largely the insufficient harvests of 1931 and 1932 caused by a variety of natural disasters that resulted in famine, with the successful harvest of 1933 ending the famine.[81] Soviet and other historians have argued that the rapid collectivization of agriculture was necessary in order to achieve an equally rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union and ultimately win World War II. Alec Nove claims that the Soviet Union industrialized in spite of, rather than because of, its collectivized agriculture.[citation
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Famine in USSR, 1933. Areas of most disastrous famine marked with black.

The USSR also experienced a major famine in 1947 as a result of war damage and severe droughts, but economist Michael Ellman argues that it could have been prevented if the government had not mismanaged its grain reserves. The famine cost an estimated 1 to 1.5million lives as well as secondary population losses due to reduced fertility.[82] Ukrainian famine

Passers-by no longer pay attention to the corpses of starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933.

The Holodomor famine is sometimes referred to as the Ukrainian Genocide, implying it was engineered by the Soviet government, specifically targeting the Ukrainian people to destroy the Ukrainian nation as a political factor and social entity.[83][84][85][86] While historians continue to disagree whether the policies that led to Holodomor fall under the legal definition of genocide, twenty-six countries have officially recognized the Holodomor as such. On 28 November 2006, the Ukrainian Parliament approved a bill declaring the Soviet-era forced famine an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.[87] Professor Michael Ellman concludes that Ukrainians were victims of genocide in 193233 according to a more relaxed definition that is favored by some specialists in the field of genocide studies. He asserts that Soviet policies greatly exacerbated the famine's death toll. Although 1.8million tonnes of grain were exported during the height of the starvationenough to feed 5 million people for one year-the use of torture and execution to extract grain under the Law of Spikelets, the use of force to prevent starving peasants from fleeing the worst-affected areas, and the refusal to import grain or secure international humanitarian aid to alleviate conditions led to incalculable human suffering in the Ukraine. It would appear that Stalin intended to use the starvation as a cheap and efficient means (as opposed to deportations and shootings) to kill off those deemed to be

Joseph Stalin "counterrevolutionaries," "idlers," and "thieves," but not to annihilate the Ukrainian peasantry as a whole. Ellman also claims that, while this was not the only Soviet genocide (e.g., the Polish operation of the NKVD), it was the worst in terms of mass casualties.[] Current estimates on the total number of casualties within Soviet Ukraine range mostly from 2.2million[88][89] to 4 to 5 million.[90][91][] A Ukrainian court found Josef Stalin and other leaders of the former Soviet Union guilty of genocide by "organizing mass famine in Ukraine in 19321933" in January 2010. However, the court "dropped criminal proceedings over the suspects' deaths".[92][93]

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Industrialization
The Russian Civil War and wartime communism had a devastating effect on the country's economy. Industrial output in 1922 was 13% of that in 1914. A recovery followed under the New Economic Policy, which allowed a degree of market flexibility within the context of socialism. Under Stalin's direction, this was replaced by a system of centrally ordained "Five-Year Plans" in the late 1920s. These called for a highly ambitious program of state-guided crash industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture. With seed capital unavailable because of international reaction to Communist policies, little international trade, and virtually no modern infrastructure, Stalin's government financed industrialization both by restraining consumption on the part of ordinary Soviet citizens to ensure that capital went for re-investment into industry, and by ruthless extraction of wealth from the kulaks. In 1933 workers' real earnings sank to about one-tenth of the 1926 Stalin on building of Moscow-Volga canal. It was level.[citation needed] Common and political prisoners in labor camps constructed from 1932 to 1937 by Gulag were forced to perform unpaid labor, and communists and Komsomol prisoners. members were frequently "mobilized" for various construction projects. The Soviet Union used numerous foreign experts to design new factories, supervise construction, instruct workers and improve manufacturing processes. The most notable foreign contractor was Albert Kahn's firm that designed and built 521 factories between 1930 and 1932. As a rule, factories were supplied with imported equipment. In spite of early breakdowns and failures, the first two Five-Year Plans achieved rapid industrialization from a very low economic base. While it is generally agreed that the Soviet Union achieved significant levels of economic growth under Stalin, the precise rate of growth is disputed. It is not disputed, however, that these gains were accomplished at the cost of millions of lives. Official Soviet estimates stated the annual rate of growth at 13.9%; Russian and Western estimates gave lower figures of 5.8% and even 2.9%. Indeed, one estimate is that Soviet growth became temporarily much higher after Stalin's death.[94][95] According to Robert Lewis, the Five-Year Plan substantially helped to modernize the previously backward Soviet economy. New products were developed, and the scale and efficiency of existing production greatly increased. Some innovations were based on indigenous technical developments, others on imported foreign technology.[96] Despite its costs, the industrialization effort allowed the Soviet Union to fight, and ultimately win, World War II.

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Science
Science in the Soviet Union was under strict ideological control by Stalin and his government, along with art and literature. There was significant progress in "ideologically safe" domains, owing to the free Soviet education system and state-financed research. However, the most notable legacy during Stalin's time was his public endorsement of the agronomist Trofim Lysenko, who rejected Mendelian genetics as "bourgeois pseudoscience" and instead supported hybridization theories that caused widespread agricultural destruction and major setbacks in Soviet knowledge in biology. Although many scientists opposed his views, those who publicly came out were imprisoned and denounced. Some areas of physics were criticized.[97][98]

Social services
Under the Soviet government people benefited from some social liberalization. Girls were given an adequate, equal education and women had equal rights in employment,[] improving lives for women and families. Stalinist development also contributed to advances in health care, which significantly increased the lifespan and quality of life of the typical Soviet citizen.[] Stalin's policies granted the Soviet people universal access to healthcare and education, effectively creating the first generation free from the fear of typhus, cholera, and malaria.[] The occurrences of these diseases dropped to record low numbers, increasing life spans by decades.[] Soviet women under Stalin were the first generation of women able to give birth in the safety of a hospital with access to prenatal care.[] Education was also an example of an increase in the standard of living after economic development. The generation born during Stalin's rule was the first near-universally literate generation. Millions benefited from mass literacy campaigns in the 1930s, and from workers training schemes.[99] Engineers were sent abroad to learn industrial technology, and hundreds of foreign engineers were brought to Russia on contract.[] Transport links were improved and many new railways built. Workers who exceeded their quotas, Stakhanovites, received many incentives for their work;[99] they could afford to buy the goods that were mass-produced by the rapidly expanding Soviet economy. The increase in demand due to industrialization and the decrease in the workforce due to World War II and repressions generated a major expansion in job opportunities for the survivors, especially for women.[99]

Culture
Although he was Georgian by birth, some western historians claim that Stalin became a Russian nationalist[] and significantly promoted Russian history, language, and Russian national heroes, particularly during the 1930s and 1940s[citation needed]. There are also claims that he held the Russian people up as the elder brothers of the non-Russian minorities.[100] During Stalin's reign the official and long-lived style of Socialist Realism was established for painting, sculpture, music, drama and literature. Previously fashionable "revolutionary" expressionism, abstract art, and avant-garde experimentation were discouraged or denounced as "formalism".

Propaganda portrait of "Marshal Stalin", World War II

The degree of Stalin's personal involvement in general, and in specific instances, has been the subject of discussion.[citation needed] Stalin's favorite novel Pharaoh, shared similarities[citation needed] with Sergei Eisenstein's film, Ivan the Terrible, produced under Stalin's tutelage. In architecture, a Stalinist Empire Style (basically, updated neoclassicism on a very large scale, exemplified by the Seven Sisters of Moscow) replaced the constructivism of the 1920s. Stalin's rule had a largely disruptive effect on indigenous cultures within the Soviet Union, though the politics of Korenizatsiya and forced development were

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Religion
Raised in the Georgian Orthodox faith, Stalin became an atheist. He followed the position that religion was an opiate that needed to be removed in order to construct the ideal communist society. His government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, anti-religious propaganda, the antireligious work of public institutions (Society of the Godless), discriminatory laws, and a terror campaign against religious believers. By the late 1930s it had become dangerous to be publicly associated with religion.[101] Stalin's role in the fortunes of the Russian Orthodox Church is complex. Continuous persecution in the 1930s resulted in its near-extinction as a public institution: by 1939, active parishes numbered in the low hundreds (down from 54,000 in 1917), many churches had been leveled, and tens of thousands of priests, monks and nuns were persecuted and killed. Over 100,000 were shot during the purges of 19371938.[102][103] During World War II, the Church was allowed a revival as a patriotic organization, and thousands of parishes were reactivated until a further round of suppression during Khrushchev's rule. The Russian Orthodox Church Synod's recognition of the Soviet government and of Stalin personally led to a schism with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. Just days before Stalin's death, certain religious sects were outlawed and persecuted. Many religions popular in ethnic regions of the Soviet Union, including the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Baptists, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism underwent ordeals similar to that which the Orthodox churches in other parts of the country suffered: thousands of monks were persecuted, and hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, sacred monuments, monasteries and other religious buildings were razed. Stalin had a different policy outside the Soviet Union; he supported the Communist Uyghur Muslim separatists under Ehmetjan Qasim in the Ili Rebellion against the Anti Communist Republic of China regime. He supplied weapons to the Uyghur Ili army and Red Army support against Chinese forces, and helped them establish the Second East Turkestan Republic of which Islam was the official state religion.

Theorist
Stalin and his supporters have highlighted the notion that socialism can be built and consolidated by a country ("Socialism in One Country") as underdeveloped as Russia during the 1920s. Indeed this might be the only means in which it could be built in a hostile environment.[104] In 1933, Stalin put forward the theory of aggravation of the class struggle along with the development of socialism, arguing that the further the country would move forward, the more acute forms of struggle will be used by the doomed remnants of exploiter classes in their last desperate efforts and that, therefore, political repression was necessary. In 1936, Stalin announced that the society of the Soviet Union consisted of two non-antagonistic classes: workers and kolkhoz peasantry. These corresponded to the two different forms of property over the means of production that existed in the Soviet Union: state property (for the workers) and collective property (for the peasantry). In addition to these, Stalin distinguished the stratum of intelligentsia. The concept of "non-antagonistic classes" was entirely new to Leninist theory. Among Stalin's contributions to Communist theoretical literature were "Dialectical and Historical Materialism," "Marxism and the National Question", "Trotskyism or Leninism", and "The Principles of Leninism."

Calculating the number of victims

Before the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, researchers who attempted to count the number of people killed under Stalin's regime produced estimates ranging from 3 to 60 million.[105] After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives also became available, containing official records of 799,455 executions 1921-53,[106] around 1.7million deaths in the Gulags and some 390,000 deaths during kulak forced resettlement with a total of about 3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.[107]

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The official Soviet archival records do not contain comprehensive figures for some categories of victims, such as those of ethnic deportations or of German population transfers in the aftermath of World War II.[108] Eric D. Weitz wrote, "By 1948, according to Nicolas Werth, the mortality rate of the 600,000 people deported from the Caucasus between 1943 and 1944 had reached 25%."[109][110] Other notable exclusions from NKVD data on repression deaths include the Katyn massacre, other killings in the newly occupied areas, and the mass shootings of Red Army personnel (deserters and so-called deserters) in 1941. The Soviets executed 158,000 soldiers for desertion Photo from 1943 exhumation of mass grave of Polish officers killed by NKVD in Katy Forest during the war,[111] and the "blocking detachments" of the NKVD shot in 1940. thousands more.[112] Also, the official statistics on Gulag mortality exclude deaths of prisoners taking place shortly after their release but which resulted from the harsh treatment in the camps.[113] Some historians also believe that the official archival figures of the categories that were recorded by Soviet authorities are unreliable and incomplete.[114][115] In addition to failures regarding comprehensive recordings, as one additional example, Robert Gellately and Simon Sebag Montefiore argue that the many suspects beaten and tortured to death while in "investigative custody" were likely not to have been counted amongst the executed.[][116] Historians working after the Soviet Union's dissolution have estimated victim totals ranging from approximately 4 million to nearly 10million, not including those who died in famines.[117][118][119] Russian writer Vadim Erlikman, for example, makes the following estimates: executions, 1.5million; gulags, 5 million; deportations, 1.7million out of 7.5million deported; and POWs and German civilians, 1 million a total of about 9million victims of repression.[120] Some have also included the deaths of 6 to 8 million people in the 19321933 famine among the victims of Stalin's repression. This categorization is controversial however, as historians differ as to whether the famine was a deliberate part of the campaign of repression against kulaks and others,[][][121][122][123] or simply an unintended consequence of the struggle over forced collectivization.[][124][125] Accordingly, if famine victims are included, a minimum of around 10 million deaths6million from famine and 4million from other causesare attributable to the regime,[126] with a number of recent historians suggesting a likely total of around 20 million, citing much higher victim totals from executions, gulags, deportations and other causes.[127][128][129][130][131][132][133] Adding 68million famine victims to Erlikman's estimates above, for example, would yield a total of between 15 and 17 million victims. Researcher Robert Conquest, meanwhile, has revised his original estimate of up to 30 million victims down to 20million.[134] In his most recent edition of The Great Terror (2007), Conquest states that while exact numbers may never be known with complete certainty, the various terror campaigns launched by the Soviet government claimed no fewer than 15 million lives.[135] Others maintain that their earlier higher victim total estimates are correct.[136][137]

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World War II, 19391945

Pact with Hitler
After a failed attempt to sign an anti-German military alliance with France and Britain[138][139][140] and talks with Germany regarding a potential political deal,[141][142][143][144] on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.[145] Officially a non-aggression treaty only, an appended secret protocol, also reached on 23 August 1939, divided the whole of eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence.[146][147] The eastern part of Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and part of Romania were recognized as parts of the Soviet sphere of influence,[147] with Lithuania added in a second secret protocol in September 1939.[148] Stalin and Ribbentrop traded toasts on the night of the signing discussing past hostilities between the countries.[149]
Ribbentrop and Stalin at the signing of the Pact

Implementing the division of Eastern Europe and other invasions

On 1 September 1939, the German invasion of its agreed upon portion of Poland started World War II.[145] On 17 September the Red Army invaded eastern Poland and occupied the Polish territory assigned to it by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, followed by co-ordination with German forces in Poland.[150][] Eleven days later, the secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was modified, allotting Germany a larger part of Poland, while ceding most of Lithuania to the Soviet Union.[151] After Stalin declared that he was going to "solve the Baltic problem", by June 1940, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were merged into the Soviet Union, after repressions and actions therein brought about the deaths of over 160,000 citizens of these states.[152][153][154] After facing stiff resistance in an invasion of Finland,[155] an interim peace was entered, granting the Soviet Union the eastern region of Karelia (10% of Finnish territory).[155] After this campaign, Stalin took actions to bolster the Soviet military, modify training and improve propaganda efforts in the Soviet military.[156] In June 1940, Stalin directed the Soviet annexation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, proclaiming this formerly Romanian territory part of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. But in annexing northern Bukovina, Stalin had gone beyond the agreed limits of the secret protocol.[157]
Planned and actual territorial changes in Eastern and Central Europe 19391940 (click to enlarge)

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After the Tripartite Pact was signed by Axis Powers Germany, Japan and Italy, in October 1940, Stalin traded letters with Ribbentrop, with Stalin writing about entering an agreement regarding a "permanent basis" for their "mutual interests."[158] After a conference in Berlin between Hitler, Molotov and Ribbentrop, Germany presented Molotov with a proposed written agreement for Axis entry.[159] On 25 November, Stalin responded with a proposed written agreement for Axis entry which was never answered by Germany. Shortly thereafter, Hitler issued a secret directive on the eventual attempts to invade the Soviet Union.[160] In an effort to demonstrate peaceful intentions toward Germany, on 13 April 1941, Stalin oversaw the signing of a neutrality pact with Axis power Japan.[161]

Stalin and Molotov on the signing of the SovietJapanese Neutrality Pact with the Empire of Japan, 1941

Hitler breaks the pact

During the early morning of 22 June 1941, Adolf Hitler broke the pact by implementing Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Soviet held territories and the Soviet Union that began the war on the Eastern Front.[162] Already in autumn 1940 Stalin received a warning of the Dutch communist party, via the network of the Red Orchestra, that Hitler was preparing for a winter war by letting construct thousands of snow landing gears for the Junkers Ju 52 transport planes.[163] Although Stalin had received warnings from spies and his generals,[164][165][166][167][] he felt that Germany would not attack the Soviet Union until Germany had defeated Britain.[164] In the initial hours after the German attack commenced, Stalin hesitated, wanting to ensure that the German attack was sanctioned by Hitler, rather than the unauthorized action of a rogue general.[] Accounts by Nikita Khrushchev and Anastas Mikoyan claim that, after the invasion, Stalin retreated to his dacha in despair for several days and did not participate in leadership decisions.[168] However, some documentary evidence of orders given by Stalin contradicts these accounts, leading some historians to speculate that Khrushchev's account is inaccurate.[169] By the end of 1941, the Soviet military had suffered 4.3million casualties[170] and German forces had advanced 1,050 miles (1,690 kilometers).[171]

Soviets stop the Germans

While the Germans pressed forward, Stalin was confident of an eventual Allied victory over Germany. In September 1941, Stalin told British diplomats that he wanted two agreements: (1) a mutual assistance/aid pact and (2) a recognition that, after the war, the Soviet Union would gain the territories in countries that it had taken pursuant to its division of Eastern Europe with Hitler in the MolotovRibbentrop Pact. The British agreed to assistance but refused to agree upon the territorial gains, which Stalin accepted months later as the military situation deteriorated somewhat in mid-1942.[172] By With all the men at the Front, Moscow women dig anti-tank trenches around Moscow in 1941. December 1941, Hitler's troops had advanced to within 20 miles of the Kremlin in Moscow. On 5 December, the Soviets launched a counteroffensive, pushing German troops back 4050 miles from Moscow, the Wehrmacht's first significant defeat of the war.[173] In 1942, Hitler shifted his primary goal from an immediate victory in the East, to the more long-term goal of securing the southern Soviet Union to conquer oil fields vital to a long-term German war effort.[174] In July 1942, Hitler praised the efficiency of the Soviet military industry and Stalin:

Joseph Stalin Stalin, too, must command our unconditional respect. In his own way he is a hell of a fellow! (German: ein genialer Kerl) He knows his models, Genghiz Khan and the others, very well, and the scope of his industrial planning is exceeded only by our own Four Year Plan.[175] While Red Army generals saw evidence that Hitler would shift efforts south, Stalin considered this to be a flanking campaign in efforts to take Moscow.[176] During the war, Time magazine named Stalin Time Person of the Year twice[177] and he was also one of the nominees for Time Person of the Century title.[citation needed]

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Soviet push to Germany

The Soviets repulsed the important German strategic southern campaign and, although 2.5million Soviet casualties were suffered in that effort, it permitted the Soviets to take the offensive for most of the rest of the war on the Eastern Front.[178]

The center of Stalingrad after liberation, February 2, 1943.

Germany attempted an encirclement attack at Kursk, which was successfully repulsed by the Soviets.[179] Kursk marked the beginning of a period where Stalin became more willing to listen to the advice of his generals. By the end of 1943, the Soviets occupied half of the territory taken by the Germans from 19411942.[180] Soviet military industrial output also had increased substantially from late 1941 to early 1943 after Stalin had moved factories well to the East of the front, safe from German invasion and air attack.[181] In November 1943, Stalin met with Churchill and Roosevelt in Tehran.[182] The parties later agreed that Britain and America would launch a cross-channel invasion of France in May 1944, along with a separate invasion of southern France.[183] Stalin insisted that, after the war, the Soviet Union should incorporate the portions of Poland it occupied pursuant to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, which Churchill opposed.[184]
The Big Three: Stalin, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference, November 1943.

In 1944, the Soviet Union made significant advances across Eastern Europe toward Germany,[185] including Operation Bagration, a massive offensive in Belorussia against the German Army Group Centre.[186]

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Final victory
By April 1945, Nazi Germany faced its last days with 1.9million German soldiers in the East fighting 6.4million Red Army soldiers while 1 million German soldiers in the West battled 4million Western Allied soldiers.[187] While initial talk existed of a race to Berlin by the Allies, after Stalin successfully lobbied for Eastern Germany to fall within the Soviet "sphere of influence" at Yalta, no plans were made by the Western Allies to seize the city by a ground operation.[188][189]
Victorious Soviet soldiers in Berlin, 1945. On 30 April, Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide, after which Soviet forces found their remains, which had been burned at Hitler's directive.[190] German forces surrendered a few days later. Despite the Soviets' possession of Hitler's remains, Stalin did not believe that his old nemesis was actually dead, a belief that remained for years after the war.[191][192]

Fending off the German invasion and pressing to victory in the East required a tremendous sacrifice by the Soviet Union.[193] Soviet military casualties totaled approximately 35 million (official figures 28.2million) with approximately 14.7million killed, missing or captured (official figures 11.285million).[194] Although figures vary, the Soviet civilian death toll probably reached 20million.[194] One in four Soviets was killed or wounded.[195] Some 1,710 towns and 70,000 villages were destroyed.[196][197] Thereafter, Stalin was at times referred to as one of the most influential men in human history.[198][199]

Nobel Peace Prize nominations

In 1945, he was mentioned by Halvdan Koht among seven candidates that were qualified for the Nobel Peace Prize. However, he did not explicitly nominate any of them. The person actually nominated was Cordell Hull.[200] In 1948, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Wladislav Rieger.[201]

Human rights abuses

After taking around 300,000 Polish prisoners in 1939 and early 1940,[202][203][203][204][205] 25,700 Polish POWs were executed on 5 March 1940, pursuant to a note to Stalin from Lavrenty Beria,[206][207] in what became known as the Katyn massacre.[208][206][209] While Stalin personally told a Polish general they'd "lost track" of the officers in Manchuria,[210][211][212] Polish railroad workers found the mass grave after the 1941 Nazi invasion.[213] The massacre became a source of political controversy,[214][215] with the Soviets eventually claiming that Germany committed the executions when the Soviet Union retook Poland in 1944.[206][216] The Soviets did not admit responsibility until 1990.[217] Stalin introduced controversial military orders, such as Order No. 270, requiring superiors to shoot deserters on the spot[218] while their family members were subject to arrest. Thereafter, Stalin also conducted a purge of several military commanders that were shot for "cowardice" without a trial.[112] Stalin issued Order No. 227, directing that commanders permitting retreat without permission to be subject to a military tribunal, and soldiers guilty of disciplinary procedures to be

Part of 5 March 1940 memo from Lavrentiy Beria to Stalin proposing execution of Polish officers

Joseph Stalin forced into "penal battalions", which were sent to the most dangerous sections of the front lines.[219] From 1942 to 1945, 427,910 soldiers were assigned to penal battalions.[220] The order also directed "blocking detachments" to shoot fleeing panicked troops at the rear.[219] In June 1941, weeks after the German invasion began, Stalin also directed employing a scorched earth policy of destroying the infrastructure and food supplies of areas before the Germans could seize them, and that partisans were to be set up in evacuated areas.[169] He also ordered the NKVD to murder around one hundred thousand political prisoners in areas where the Wermacht approached,[221] while others were deported east.[114][222][223] After the capture of Berlin, Soviet troops reportedly raped from tens of thousands to two million women,[224] and 50,000 during and after the occupation of Budapest.[225][226] Many of these women died or committed suicide as a result of rape. In former Axis countries, such as Germany, Romania and Hungary, Red Army officers generally viewed cities, villages and farms as being open to pillaging and looting.[227] In the Soviet Occupation Zone of post-war Germany, the Soviets set up ten NKVD-run "special camps" subordinate to the gulag.[228] These "special camps" were former Stalags, prisons, or Nazi concentration camps such as Sachsenhausen (special camp number 7) and Buchenwald (special camp number 2).[229] According to German government estimates, "65,000 people died in those Soviet-run camps or in transportation to them."[230] According to recent figures, of an estimated four million POWs taken by the Soviets, including Germans, Japanese, Hungarians, Romanians and others, some 580,000 never returned, presumably victims of privation or the Gulags.[231] German estimates put the actual death toll of German POW in the USSR at about 1.0 million, they maintain that among those reported as missing were men who actually died as POW.[232] Soviet POWs and forced laborers who survived German captivity were sent to special "transit" or "filtration" camps to determine which were potential traitors.[233] Of the approximately 4 million to be repatriated 2,660,013 were civilians and 1,539,475 were former POWs. Of the total, 2,427,906 were sent home and 801,152 were reconscripted into the armed forces. 608,095 were enrolled in the work battalions of the defense ministry. 272,867 were transferred to the authority of the NKVD for punishment, which meant a transfer to the Gulag system.[233][234][235] 89,468 remained in the transit camps as reception personnel until the repatriation process was finally wound up in the early 1950s.[233]

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Allied conferences on post-war Europe

Stalin met in several conferences with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (and later Clement Attlee) and/or U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (and later Harry Truman) to plan military strategy and, later, to discuss Europe's postwar reorganization. Very early conferences, such as that with British diplomats in Moscow in 1941 and with Churchill and American diplomats in Moscow in 1942, focused mostly upon war planning and supply, though some preliminary postwar reorganization discussion also occurred. In 1943, Stalin met with Churchill and Roosevelt in the Tehran Conference. In 1944, Stalin met with Churchill in the Moscow Conference. Beginning in late 1944, the Red Army occupied much of Eastern Europe during these conferences and the discussions shifted to a more intense focus on the reorganization of postwar Europe.

The Big Three: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 1945.

In February 1945, at the conference at Yalta, Stalin demanded a Soviet sphere of political influence in Eastern Europe. Stalin eventually was convinced by Churchill and Roosevelt not to dismember Germany. Stalin also stated that the Polish government-in-exile demands for self-rule were not negotiable, such that the Soviet Union would keep the territory of eastern Poland they had already taken by invasion with German consent in 1939, and wanted the

Joseph Stalin pro-Soviet Polish government installed. After resistance by Churchill and Roosevelt, Stalin promised a re-organization of the current Communist puppet government on a broader democratic basis in Poland.[236] He stated the new government's primary task would be to prepare elections.[237] The parties at Yalta further agreed that the countries of liberated Europe and former Axis satellites would be allowed to "create democratic institutions of their own choice", pursuant to "the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live."[238] The parties also agreed to help those countries form interim governments "pledged to the earliest possible establishment through free elections" and "facilitate where necessary the holding of such elections."[238] After the re-organization of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland, the parties agreed that the new party shall "be pledged to the holding of free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot."[238] One month after Yalta, the Soviet NKVD arrested 16 Polish leaders wishing to participate in provisional government negotiations, for alleged "crimes" and "diversions", which drew protest from the West.[237] The fraudulent Polish elections, held in January 1947 resulted in Poland's official transformation to undemocratic communist state by 1949. At the Potsdam Conference from July to August 1945, though Germany had surrendered months earlier, instead of withdrawing Soviet forces from Eastern European countries, Stalin had not moved those forces. At the beginning of the conference, Stalin repeated previous promises to Churchill that he would refrain from a "Sovietization" of Eastern Europe.[239] Stalin pushed for reparations from Germany without regard to the base minimum supply for German citizens' survival, which worried Truman and Churchill who thought that Germany would become a financial burden for Western powers.[240]

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In addition to reparations, Stalin pushed for "war booty", which would permit the Soviet Union to directly seize property from conquered nations without quantitative or qualitative limitation, and a clause was added permitting this to occur with some limitations.[240] By July 1945, Stalin's troops effectively controlled the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, and refugees were fleeing out of these countries fearing a Communist take-over. The western allies, and especially Churchill, were suspicious of the motives of Stalin, who had already installed communist governments in the central European countries under his influence. In these conferences, his first appearances on the world stage, Stalin proved to be a formidable negotiator. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary noted: "Marshal Stalin as a negotiator was the toughest proposition of all. Indeed, after something like thirty years' experience of international conferences of one kind and another, if I had to pick a team for going into a conference room, Stalin would be my first choice. Of course the man was ruthless and of course he knew his purpose. He never wasted a word. He never stormed, he was seldom even irritated."[241]

British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945.

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Post-war era, 19451953

The Iron Curtain and the Eastern Bloc
After Soviet forces remained in Eastern and Central European countries, with the beginnings of communist puppet regimes in those countries, Churchill referred to the region as being behind an "Iron Curtain" of control from Moscow.[242][243] The countries under Soviet control in Eastern and Central Europe were sometimes called the "Eastern bloc" or "Soviet Bloc". In Soviet-controlled East Germany, the major task of the ruling communist party in Germany was to channel Soviet orders down to both the administrative apparatus and the other bloc parties pretending that these were initiatives of its own, with deviations potentially leading to reprimands, imprisonment, torture and even death. Property and industry were nationalized.[244] The German Democratic Republic was declared on 7 October 1949, with a new constitution which enshrined socialism and gave the Soviet-controlled Socialist Unity Party (SED) control. In Berlin, after citizens strongly rejected communist candidates in an election, in June 1948, the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin, the portion of Berlin not under Soviet control, cutting off all supply of food and other items. The blockade failed due to the unexpected massive aerial resupply campaign carried out by the Western powers known as the Berlin Airlift. In 1949, Stalin conceded defeat and ended the blockade. While Stalin had promised at the Yalta Conference that free elections would be held in Poland,[238] after an election failure in "3 times YES" The Eastern Bloc until 1989 elections,[245] vote rigging was employed to win a majority in the carefully controlled poll.[246][247][248] Following the forged referendum, the Polish economy started to become nationalized.[249] In Hungary, when the Soviets installed a communist government, Mtys Rkosi, who described himself as "Stalin's best Hungarian disciple"[250] and "Stalin's best pupil",[251] took power. Rkosi employed "salami tactics", slicing up these enemies like pieces of salami,[252] to battle the initial postwar political majority ready to establish a democracy.[253] Rkosi, employed Stalinist political and economic programs, and was dubbed the "bald murderer" for establishing one of the harshest dictatorships in Europe.[253][254] Approximately 350,000 Hungarian officials and intellectuals were purged from 1948 to 1956.[253] During World War II, in Bulgaria, the Red Army crossed the border and created the conditions for a communist coup d'tat on the following night. The Soviet military commander in Sofia assumed supreme authority, and the communists whom he instructed, including Kimon Georgiev, took full control of domestic politics.[255] In 1949, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania founded the Comecon in accordance with Stalin's desire to enforce Soviet domination of the lesser states of Central Europe and to mollify some states that had expressed interest in the Marshall Plan,[256] and which were now, increasingly, cut off from their traditional markets and suppliers in Western Europe.[257] Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland had remained interested in Marshall aid despite the requirements for a convertible currency and market economies. In July 1947, Stalin ordered these communist-dominated governments to pull out of the Paris Conference on the European Recovery Programme. This has been described as "the moment of truth" in the postWorld War II division of Europe.[257]

Joseph Stalin In Greece, Britain and the United States supported the anti-communists in the Greek Civil War and suspected the Soviets of supporting the Greek communists, although Stalin refrained from getting involved in Greece, dismissing the movement as premature. Albania remained an ally of the Soviet Union, but Yugoslavia broke with the USSR in 1948. In Stalin's last year of life, one of his last major foreign policy initiatives was the 1952 Stalin Note for German reunification and Superpower disengagement from Central Europe, but Britain, France, and the United States viewed this with suspicion and rejected the offer.

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Sino-Soviet relations
In Asia, the Red Army had overrun Manchuria in the last month of the war and then also occupied Korea above the 38th parallel north. Mao Zedong's Communist Party of China, though receptive to minimal Soviet support, defeated the pro-Western and heavily American-assisted Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, KMT) in the Chinese Civil War. There was friction between Stalin and Mao from the beginning. During Stalin and Mao Zedong on Chinese postage World War II Stalin had supported the dictator of China, Chiang stamp Kai-Shek, as a bulwark against Japan and had turned a blind eye to Chiang's mass killings of communists. He generally put his alliance with Chiang against Japan ahead of helping his ideological allies in China in his priorities. Even after the war Stalin concluded a non-aggression pact between the USSR and Chiang's KMT regime in China and instructed Mao and the Chinese communists to cooperate with Chiang and the KMT after the war. Mao did not follow Stalin's instructions though and started a communist revolution against Chiang. Stalin did not believe Mao would be successful so he was less than enthusiastic in helping Mao. The USSR continued to maintain diplomatic relations with Chiang's KMT regime until 1949 when it became clear Mao would win. Stalin supported the Turkic Muslims known today as Uyghur in seeking their own state, Second East Turkestan Republic during the Ili Rebellion against the Republic of China. He backed the Uyghur Communist Muslim leader Ehmetjan Qasim against the anti Communist Chinese Kuomintang forces. Stalin did conclude a new friendship and alliance treaty with Mao after he defeated Chiang. But there was still a lot of tension between the two leaders and resentment by Mao for Stalin's less than enthusiastic help during the civil war in China. The Communists controlled mainland China while the Nationalists held a rump state on the island of Taiwan. The Soviet Union soon after recognized Mao's People's Republic of China, which it regarded as a new ally. The People's Republic claimed Taiwan, though it had never held authority there. Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and China reached a high point with the signing of the 1950 Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance. Both countries provided military support to a new friendly state in North Korea. After various Korean border conflicts, war broke out with U.S.-allied South Korea in 1950, starting the Korean War. However, not surprisingly, the relations with the Kuomintang deteriorated. In 1951, in Taiwan, the Chinese Muslim Kuomintang General Bai Chongxi made a speech broadcast on radio to the entire

Mao at Stalin's 70th birthday celebration in Moscow, December 1949

Joseph Stalin Muslim world calling for a war against Russia, claiming that the "imperialist ogre" leader Stalin was engineering World War III, and Bai also called upon Muslims to avoid the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of being blind to Soviet imperialism.[258][259]

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North Korea
Contrary to America's policy which restrained armament (limited equipment was provided for infantry and police forces) to South Korea, Stalin extensively armed Kim Il Sung's North Korean army and air forces with military equipment and "advisors" far in excess of those required for defensive purposes in order to facilitate Kim's (a former Soviet Officer) aim of conquering the rest of the Korean peninsula. The North Korean Army struck in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, 25 June 1950, crossing the 38th parallel behind a firestorm of artillery, beginning their invasion of South Korea.[] During the Korean War, Soviet pilots flew Soviet aircraft from Chinese bases against United Nations aircraft defending South Korea. PostCold War research in Soviet Archives has revealed that the Korean War was begun by Kim Il-sung with the express permission of Stalin.[260][261][262][263]

Israel
Stalin originally supported the creation of Israel in 1948. The USSR was one of the first nations to recognize the new country.[264] Golda Meir came to Moscow as the first Israeli Ambassador to the USSR that year. However, after providing war materiel for Israel through Czechoslovakia (Arms shipments from Czechoslovakia to Israel 19471949), Stalin later changed his mind and came out against Israel.

Falsifiers of History
In 1948, Stalin personally edited and rewrote by hand sections of the cold war book Falsifiers of History.[265] Falsifiers was published in response to the documents made public in Nazi-Soviet Relations, 19391941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office,[266][267] which included the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and other secret German-Soviet relations documents.[266][268] Falsifiers originally appeared as a series of articles in Pravda in February 1948,[267] and was subsequently published in numerous languages and distributed worldwide.[269] The book did not attempt to directly counter or deal with the documents published in Nazi-Soviet Relations[270] and rather, focused upon Western culpability for the outbreak of war in 1939.[269] It argues that "Western powers" aided Nazi rearmament and aggression, including that American bankers and industrialists provided capital for the growth of German war industries, while deliberately encouraging Hitler to expand eastward.[266] It depicted the Soviet Union as striving to negotiate a collective security against Hitler, while being thwarted by double-dealing Anglo-French appeasers who, despite appearances, had no intention of a Soviet alliance and were secretly negotiating with Berlin.[269] It casts the Munich agreement, not just as Anglo-French short-sightedness or cowardice, but as a "secret" agreement that was a "a highly important phase in their policy aimed at goading the Hitlerite aggressors against the Soviet Union."[271] The book also included the claim that, during the Pact's operation, Stalin rejected Hitler's offer to share in a division of the world, without mentioning the Soviet offers to join the Axis. Historical studies, official accounts, memoirs and textbooks published in the Soviet Union used that depiction of events until the Soviet Union's dissolution.[272]

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Domestic support
Domestically, Stalin was seen as a great wartime leader who had led the Soviets to victory against the Nazis. An increasingly nationalistic emphasis on Russian history and achievements became a salient feature of Soviet culture in the 1940s. At the end of May 1945, Stalin proposed a victory toast to the Soviet people, and to the virtues of the Russian majority in particular: I should like to propose a toast to the health of our Soviet people, and in the first place, the Russian people. (Loud and prolonged applause and shouts of 'Hurrah.') I drink in the first place to the health of the Russian people because it is the most outstanding nation of all the nations forming the Soviet Union. I propose a toast to the health of the Russian people because it has won in this war universal recognition as the leading force of the Soviet Union among all the peoples of our country. I propose a toast to the health of the Russian people not only because it is the leading people, but also because it possesses a clear mind, a staunch character, and patience.[273] Stalins military-territorial actions during World War II were supported by Russian nationalists inside and outside the Soviet Union (Russian exile Pavel Milyukov during Winter War: I feel pity for the Finns, but I am for the Vyborg guberniya) for the recovering of the lands lost during the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 and most of the lands lost by the former Russian Empire in World War I trough the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed by Trotsky and the Central Powers in 1918. Also, by 19451948 for the first time since the Middle Ages the Eastern Slavic lands and peoples were reunited in a single country, and all Slavic nations were outside German (with the definitive termination of the Drang nach Osten), Turkish or other Western European influence and under the orbit of Moscow an old dream cherished by Russian nationalists and Pan-Slavists alike.[citation needed] Various foreign scientific discoveries and inventions (such as the Wright Brothers' airplane) were attributed to Russians in post-war Soviet propaganda. Examples include the boiler, reclaimed by father and son Cherepanovs; the electric light, by Yablochkov and Lodygin; the radio, by Popov; and the airplane, by Mozhaysky. Stalin's internal repressive policies continued (including in newly acquired territories), but never reached the extremes of the 1930s.[citation needed]

"Doctors' plot"
The "Doctors' plot" was a plot outlined by Stalin and Soviet officials in 1952 and 1953 whereby several doctors (over half of whom were Jewish) allegedly attempted to kill Soviet officials.[274] The prevailing opinion of many scholars outside the Soviet Union is that Stalin intended to use the resulting doctors' trial to launch a massive party purge.[275] The plot is also viewed by many historians as an antisemitic provocation.[274] It followed on the heels of the 1952 show trials of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee[276] and the secret execution of thirteen members on Stalin's orders in the Night of the Murdered Poets.[277] Thereafter, in a December Politburo session, Stalin announced that "Every Jewish nationalist is the agent of the American intelligence service. Jewish nationalists think that their nation was saved by the United States (there you can become rich, bourgeois, etc.). They think they're indebted to the Americans. Among doctors, there are many Jewish nationalists."[278] To mobilize the Soviet people for his campaign, Stalin ordered TASS and Pravda to issue stories along with Stalin's alleged uncovering of a "Doctors Plot" to assassinate top Soviet leaders,[279][280] including Stalin, in order to set the stage for show trials.[281] The next month, Pravda published stories with text regarding the purported "Jewish bourgeois-nationalist" plotters.[] Nikita Khrushchev wrote that Stalin hinted him to incite anti-Semitism in the Ukraine, telling him that "the good workers at the factory should be given clubs so they can beat the hell out of those Jews."[282][283] Stalin also ordered falsely accused physicians to be tortured "to death".[284] Regarding the origins of the plot, people who knew Stalin, such as Khrushchev, suggest that Stalin had long harbored negative sentiments toward Jews,[274][285][286] and

Joseph Stalin anti-Semitic trends in the Kremlin's policies were further fueled by the exile of Leon Trotsky.[274][287] In 1946, Stalin allegedly said privately that "every Jew is a potential spy."[274][288] At the end of January 1953, Stalin's personal physician Miron Vovsi (cousin of Solomon Mikhoels, who was assassinated in 1948 at the orders of Stalin)[277] was arrested within the frame of the plot. Vovsi was released by Beria after Stalin's death in 1953, as was his son-in-law, the composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Some historians have argued that Stalin was also planning to send millions of Jews to four large newly built labor camps in Western Russia[281][289] using a "Deportation Commission"[290][291][292] that would purportedly act to save Soviet Jews from an enraged Soviet population after the Doctors Plot trials.[290][293][294] Others argue that any charge of an alleged mass deportation lacks specific documentary evidence.[280] Regardless of whether a plot to deport Jews was planned, in his "Secret Speech" in 1956, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev stated that the Doctors Plot was "fabricated ... set up by Stalin", that Stalin told the judge to beat confessions from the defendants[295] and had told Politburo members "You are blind like young kittens. What will happen without me? The country will perish because you do not know how to recognize enemies."[295]

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Death and aftermath

Stalin's health deteriorated towards the end of World War II. He suffered from atherosclerosis from his heavy smoking. He suffered a mild stroke around the time of the Victory Parade, and a severe heart attack in October 1945.[296] On the early morning hours of 1 March 1953, after an all-night dinner and a movie[297] Stalin arrived at his Kuntsevo residence some 15km west of Moscow centre with interior minister Lavrentiy Beria and future premiers Georgy Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev where he retired to his bedroom to sleep. At dawn, Stalin did not emerge from his room. Although his guards thought that it was odd for him not to rise at his usual time, they were under strict orders not to disturb him and left him alone the entire day. At around 10p.m. he was discovered by Peter Lozgachev, the Deputy Commandant of Kuntsevo, who entered his bedroom to check up on him and recalled the scene of Stalin lying on his back on the floor of his room beside his bed wearing pyjama bottoms and an undershirt with his clothes soaked in stale urine. A frightened Lozgachev asked Stalin what happened to him, but all he could get out of the Generalissimo was unintelligible responses that Stalin's Grave in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis sounded like "Dzhhhhh." Lozgachev used the bedroom telephone where he frantically called a few party officials telling them that Stalin may have had a stroke and asked them to send good doctors to the Kuntsevo residence immediately.[298][299] Lavrentiy Beria was informed and arrived a few hours afterwards, and the doctors only arrived in the early morning of 2 March in which they changed Stalin's bedclothes and tended to him. The bedridden Stalin died four days later, on 5 March 1953,[1] at the age of 74, and was embalmed on 9 March.

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Announcement
Yuri Levitan, the announcer who during the war brought the Soviet the news of victories - but never of defeats announced Stalin's death. Slowly, solemnly, with a voice brimming over with emotion, he read:[300] "The Central Committee of the Communist party, the Council of Ministers and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. announce with deep grief to the party and all workers that on March 5 at 9.50 p.m., Josef Visserionovich Stalin, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist party and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, died after a serious illness. The heart of the collaborator and follower of the genius of Lenin's work, the wise leader and teacher of the Communist party and of the Soviet people, stopped beating." His body was preserved in Lenin's Mausoleum until 31 October 1961, when his body was removed from the mausoleum and buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis next to the Kremlin walls as part of the process of de-Stalinization. Officially, Stalin died naturally due to a cerebral hemorrhage (massive stroke). However, in 2003, a joint group of Russian and American historians announced their view that Stalin had ingested flavorless warfarin, a powerful rat poison that inhibits coagulation of the blood and which predisposes the victim to hemorrhagic stroke (cerebral hemorrhage).[301] A more recently released autopsy stated that Stalin died naturally from a stroke induced by hypertensive hemorrhage. However, the report also noted cardiac, gastrointestinal and renal hemorrhaging which is inconsistent with a natural death; this is consistent with poisoning by warfarin. Beria and Khrushchev were in a position to add the tasteless warfarin to Stalin's wine the evening before.[302] His demise certainly arrived at a convenient time for Lavrentiy Beria and others, who feared being swept away in yet another purge. It is believed that Stalin felt Beria's power was too great and threatened his own.[303] The political memoirs of Vyacheslav Molotov, published in 1993, claimed that Beria had boasted to Molotov that he poisoned Stalin: "I took him out." Khrushchev wrote in his (unreliable) memoirs that Beria had, immediately after the stroke, gone about "spewing hatred against [Stalin] and mocking him", and then, when Stalin showed signs of consciousness, dropped to his knees and kissed his hand. When Stalin fell unconscious again, Beria immediately stood and spat.[304] It has also been suggested by Joe Pirjevec that Stalin was assassinated by the order of Josip Broz Tito in retaliation for assassination attempts on Tito. A letter was found in Stalin's office from Tito that read: "Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."[305] After Stalin's death a power struggle for his vacant position took place between the following eight senior members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union listed according to the order of precedence presented formally on 5 March:[306] Georgy Malenkov, Lavrentiy Beria, Vyacheslav Molotov, Klim Voroshilov, Nikita Khrushchev, Nikolai Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich, Anastas Mikoyan. This struggle lasted until 1958 and eventually Khrushchev won through, having defeated all his potential rivals in the Presidium.

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Reaction by successors
The harshness with which Soviet affairs were conducted during Stalin's rule was subsequently repudiated by his successors in the Communist Party leadership, most notably by Nikita Khrushchev's repudiation of Stalinism in February 1956. In his "Secret Speech", On the Personality Cult and its Consequences, delivered to a closed session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Khrushchev denounced Stalin for his cult of personality, and his regime for "violation of Leninist norms of legality". A 1974 Soviet work describes Stalin's leadership in the following manner:
Grutas Park is home to a monument of Stalin, originally set up in Vilnius.

J. V. Stalin had held, since 1922, the post of General Secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee. He had made important contributions to the implementation of the Partys policy of socialist construction in the USSR, and he had won great popularity by his relentless fight against the anti-Leninist groups of the Trotskyites and Bukharinites. Since the early 1930s, however, all the successes achieved by the Soviet people in the building of socialism began to be arbitrarily attributed to Stalin. Already in a letter written back in 1922 Lenin warned the Party Central Committee: "Comrade Stalin," he wrote, "having Monument to Stalin stood in Gori, Georgia until become General Secretary, has concentrated boundless authority [307] 2010 when it was demolished. in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be able to exercise that authority with sufficient discretion." During the first few years after Lenins death Stalin reckoned with his critical remarks. As time passed, however, he abused his position of General Secretary of the Party Central Committee more and more frequently, violating the principle of collective leadership and making independent decisions on important Party and state issues. Those personal shortcomings of which Lenin had warned manifested themselves with greater and greater insistence: his rudeness, capriciousness, intolerance of criticism, arbitrariness, excessive suspiciousness, etc. This led to unjustified restrictions of democracy, gross violations of socialist legality and repressions against prominent Party, government and military leaders and other people. A Short History of the World In Two Volumes Vol. II.[308]

Views on Stalin in the Russian Federation

Results of a controversial poll taken in 2006 stated that over 35% of Russians would vote for Stalin if he were still alive.[309][310] Fewer than a third of all Russians regarded Stalin as a "murderous tyrant";[7] however, a Russian court in 2009, ruling on a suit by Stalin's grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, against the newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, ruled that referring to Stalin as a "bloodthirsty cannibal" was not libel.[311] In a July 2007 poll 54% of the Russian youth agreed that Stalin did more good than bad while 46% (of them) disagreed that Stalin was a "cruel tyrant". Half of the respondents, aged from 16 to 19, agreed Stalin was a wise leader.[8] In December 2008 Stalin was voted third in the nationwide television project Name of Russia (narrowly behind 13th century prince Alexander Nevsky and Pyotr Stolypin, one of Nicholas II's prime ministers). The Communist Party accused the Kremlin in rigging the poll in order to prevent him or Lenin being given first place.[312] On 3 July 2009, Russia's delegates walked out of an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe session to demonstrate their objections to a resolution for a remembrance day for the "victims of both Nazism and Stalinism".[]

Joseph Stalin Only eight out of 385 assembly members voted against the resolution.[] In a Kremlin video blog posted on 29 October 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev denounced the efforts of people seeking to rehabilitate Stalin's image. He said the mass extermination during the Stalin era cannot be justified.[313]

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Views on Stalin in other former Soviet states

Ukraine In a poll taken by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in February 2013 37% of all Ukrainians had "a negative attitude to the figure of Stalin" and 22% "a positive".[314] Positive attitudes prevailed in East Ukraine (36%) and South Ukraine (27%), and negative attitudes in West Ukraine (64%) and Central Ukraine (39%).[314] In the age group 1829 years 16% had positive feelings towards Stalin.[314] Early 2010 a Ukrainian court convicted Stalin of genocide against the Ukrainian nation during the Soviet famine of 19321933.[315][316] In the spring of 2010 a new monument in honor of Stalin was erected in Zaporizhia.[316] In late December 2010 the statue had his head cut off by unidentified vandals and the following New Year's Eve it was completely destroyed in an explosion.[317] On 25 February 2011 Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych stated "Ukraine will definitely not revise its negative view" on Stalin.[317] Ukraine and Poland unveiled a memorial (outside Kiev) to the thousands of Ukrainians, Poles and others killed by Stalin's secret police ahead of World War II in September 2012.[318] Armenia According to a 2012 study, 72% of Armenians do not want to live in a country led by someone like Stalin.[319]

Personal life
Origin of name, nicknames and pseudonyms
Stalin's original Georgian name is transliterated as "Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili" (Georgian: ). The Russian transliteration of his name is in turn transliterated to English as "Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili". Like other Bolsheviks, he became commonly known by one of his revolutionary noms de guerre, of which "Stalin" was only the last. Prior nicknames included "Koba", "Soselo", "Ivanov" and many others.[320] Stalin is believed to have started using the name "K. Stalin" sometime in 1912 as a pen name. During Stalin's reign his nicknames included: "Uncle Joe", by western media, during and after World War II.[321][] "Kremlin Highlander" (Russian: ), in reference his Caucasus Mountains origin, notably by Osip Mandelstam in his Stalin Epigram. "Vozhd"' (Russian: , "the Chieftain"), a term equivalent to the English word "Leader", or German "Fuhrer".

Appearance
While photographs and portraits portray Stalin as physically massive and majestic (he had several painters shot who did not depict him "right"),[] he was only five feet four inches tall (160cm).[] (President Harry S. Truman, who stood only five feet nine inches himself, described Stalin as "a little squirt".[322]) His mustached face was pock-marked from small-pox during childhood. After a carriage accident in his youth, his left arm was shortened and stiffened at the elbow, while his right hand was thinner than his left and frequently hidden.[] Bronze casts made in 1990 from plaster death mask and plaster cards of his hands clearly show a normal right hand and a withered left hand.[323] He could be charming and polite, mainly towards visiting statesmen.[] In movies, Stalin was often played by Mikheil Gelovani and, less frequently, by Aleksei Dikiy.

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Marriages and family

Stalin's son Yakov, whom he had with his first wife Ekaterina Svanidze, shot himself because of Stalin's harshness toward him, but survived. After this, Stalin said "He can't even shoot straight."[324] Yakov served in the Red Army during World War II and was captured by the Germans. They offered to exchange him for Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, who had surrendered after Stalingrad, but Stalin turned the offer down, stating "You have in your hands not only my son Yakov but millions of my sons. Either you free them all or my son will share their fate."[325] Afterwards, Yakov is said to have committed suicide, running into an electric fence in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was being held.[326] Yakov had a son Yevgeny, who is recently noted for defending his grandfather's legacy in Russian courts. Yevgeny is married to a Georgian woman, has two sons, and grandchildren.[327] Stalin had a son, Vasiliy, and a daughter, Svetlana, with his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. She died in 1932, officially of illness. She may have committed suicide by shooting herself after a quarrel with Stalin, leaving a suicide note which according to their daughter was "partly personal, partly political".[328] According to A&E Biography, there is also a belief among some Russians that Stalin himself murdered his wife after the quarrel, which apparently took place at a dinner in which Stalin tauntingly flicked cigarettes across the table at her. Vasiliy rose through the ranks of the Soviet air force, officially dying of alcoholism in 1962; however, this is still in question. He distinguished himself in World War II as a capable airman. Svetlana emigrated to the United States in 1967. In March 2001 Russian Independent Television NTV interviewed a previously unknown grandson living in Novokuznetsk, Yuri Davydov, who stated that his father had told him of his lineage, but, was told to keep quiet because of the campaign against Stalin's cult of personality.[329] Beside his suite in the Kremlin, Stalin had numerous domiciles. In 1919 he started with a country house near Usovo, he added dachas at Stalin with Beria, Lakoba (obscured) and Stalin's daughter Svetlana Zuvalova and Kuntsevo (Blizhny dacha built by Miron Merzhanov). Before World War II he added the Lipki estate and Semyonovskaya, and had at least four dachas in the south by 1937, including one near Sochi. A luxury villa near Gagri was given to him by Beria. In Abkhazia he maintained a mountain retreat. After the war he added dachas at Novy Afon, near Sukhumi, in the Valdai Hills, and at Lake Mitsa. Another estate was near Zelyony Myss on the Black Sea. All these dachas, estates, and palaces were staffed, well furnished and equipped, kept safe by security forces, and were mainly used privately, rarely for diplomatic purposes.[330] Between places Stalin would travel by car or train, never by air; he flew only once when attending the 1943 Tehran conference. In 1967 Svetlana defected to the USA and later married William Wesley Peters and by him had a daughter Olga (surname now Evans).

Ekaterina "Kato" Svanidze, Stalin's first wife

Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's second wife

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Habits
Stalin enjoyed drinking, but could keep it under control.[] He would also often force those around him to join in.[] Stalin preferred Georgian wine over Russian vodka, but usually ate traditional Russian food.[] Khrushchev reports in his memoirs that Stalin was fond of American cowboy movies.[] He would often sleep until evening in his dacha, and after waking up summon high-ranking Soviet politicians to watch foreign movies with him in the Kremlin movie theater.[] The movies, being in foreign languages, were given a running translation by Ivan Bolshakov, people's commissar of cinema.[] The translations were hilarious for the audience as Ivan spoke very basic English.[331] His favourite films were westerns and Charlie Chaplin episodes. He banned any hint of nudity. When Ivan showed a film with a naked woman Stalin shouted: "Are you making a brothel here Bolshakov?" After a movie had ended, Stalin often invited the audience for dinner, even though the clock was usually past midnight.[] In the aftermath of the war, he took control over all of Joseph Goebbels' films. He could play billiards so well he did not seem to aim at the ball.[332] He could read 500 pages a day and had a library of 20,000 volumes.[333] He loved hunting and fishing all his life.

Religion
Although raised in the Georgian Orthodox faith, Stalin was an atheist. Stalin had a complex relationship with religious institutions in the Soviet Union.[334] Historians Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov have suggested that "[Stalin's] atheism remained rooted in some vague idea of a God of nature."[335] During the Second World War, Stalin reopened the churches. One reason could have been to motivate the majority of the population who had Christian beliefs. The reasoning behind this is that by changing the official policy of the party and the state towards religion, the Church and its clergymen could be to his disposal in mobilizing the war effort. On 4 September 1943, Stalin invited Metropolitan Sergius, Metropolitan Alexius and Metropolitan Nicholas to the Kremlin and proposed to reestablish the Moscow Patriarchate, which had been suspended since 1925, and elect the Patriarch. On 8 September 1943, Metropolitan Sergius was elected patriarch. The CPSU Central Committee continued to promote atheism and the elimination of religion during the remainder of Stalin's lifetime after the 1943 concordat.[336] Stalin's greater tolerance for religion after 1943 was limited by party machinations. Whether persecutions after World War II were more aimed at certain sections of society over and above detractors is a disputed point.

Hypotheses, rumors and misconceptions about Stalin

There are conflicting accounts of Stalin's birth, who listed his birth year in various documents as being in 1878 before coming to power in 1922.[1] The phrase "death of one man is a tragedy, death of a million is a statistic" is sometimes attributed to Stalin,[337] but was actually made by the German writer and pacifist Erich Maria Remarque. In addition, hypotheses and popular rumors exist about Stalin's real father.[338] Some Bolsheviks and others have accused Stalin of being an agent for the Okhrana.[339]

Communist Party of Great Britain (MarxistLeninist) contingent at London May Day march in 2008, carrying a banner of Stalin.

Works
"Anarchism or Socialism?," 1907 "Marxism and the National Question," 1913 "The Principles of Leninism," 1924

Joseph Stalin "Trotskyism or Leninism?," 1924 "Dialectical and Historical Materialism," 1938 "The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)," 1938 "The Questions of Leninism," 1946 "Marxism and Problems of Linguistics," 1950 "Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.," 1952 Works. Volume 113: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1950s/"Volume 14": Red Star Press, London 1978

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Stalin was also a well-regarded poet in his youth. Some of his poems were published in Ilia Chavchavadze's journal Iveria and later anthologized.[340][341]

Decorations and awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia. Hero of the Soviet Union Hero of Socialist Labour Order of Victory, twice Order of the Red Banner, three times Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" Order of Lenin, three times (1939, 1945 and 1949) Order of Suvorov, 1st class Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 19411945" Medal "For the Victory over Japan" Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" Order of Sukhbaatar, twice (Mongolia) Order of the Red Star, three times Czechoslovak War Cross 1939-1945, three times Order of the White Lion, 5th class and 1st class (Czechoslovakia)

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[1] Although there is an inconsistency among published sources about Stalin's year and date of birth, Iosif Dzhugashvili is found in the records of the Uspensky Church in Gori, Georgia as born on 18 December (Old Style: 6 December) 1878. This birth date is maintained in his School Leaving Certificate, his extensive tsarist Russia police file, a police arrest record from 18 April 1902 which gave his age as 23 years, and all other surviving pre-Revolution documents. As late as 1921, Stalin himself listed his birthday as 18 December 1878 in a curriculum vitae in his own handwriting. However, after his coming to power in 1922, Stalin changed the date to 21 December 1879 (Old Style date 9 December 1879). That became the day his birthday was celebrated in the Soviet Union. [3] Gleason, Abbott (2009). A Companion to Russian History (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=JyN0hlKcfTcC& pg=PA373). Wiley-Blackwell. p. 373. ISBN 1-4051-3560-3 [5] Rozhnov, Konstantin (5 May 2005) Who won World War II? (http:/ / news. bbc. co. uk/ 2/ hi/ europe/ 4508901. stm). BBC. [7] How Russia faced its dark past (http:/ / news. bbc. co. uk/ 2/ hi/ europe/ 2821281. stm), BBC News (5 March 2003) [8] "Russian youth: Stalin good, migrants must go: poll" (http:/ / www. reuters. com/ article/ worldNews/ idUSL2559010520070725?feedType=RSS& rpc=22& sp=true), Reuters (25 July 2007) [9] "The Big Question: Why is Stalin still popular in Russia, despite the brutality of his regime? " (http:/ / www. independent. co. uk/ news/ world/ europe/ the-big-question-why-is-stalin-still-popular-in-russia-despite-the-brutality-of-his-regime-827654. html), The Independent (14 May 2008) [10] "Josef Stalin: revered and reviled in modern Russia" (http:/ / www. telegraph. co. uk/ sponsored/ russianow/ features/ 9335008/ josef-stalin-revered-reviled. html), The Telegraph (15 June 2012) [12] Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin, page 23

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[13] Montefiore 2007, p.61. [14] Medvedev, Let History Judge, p. 29 [15] marx-Engels-Lenin Institute, Josef Stalin: A Political Biography (International Publishers: New York, 1949) p. 14. [16] Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute, Josef Stalin: A Political Biography, p. 14. [17] Josef Stalin, "Briefly about the Disagreements in the Party" contained in J. V. Stalin Works 1901-1907: Volume 1 (Foreign Languages Publishing House: Moscow, 1953) pp. 90-132 [18] Josef Stalin, "Two Clashes: Concerning January 9" contained in J. V. Stalin Works: Volume 1 1901-1907, pp.198-207. [19] Montefiore 2007, pp.116. [20] Montefiore 2007, p.261. [21] Montefiore 2007. [22] Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute, Joseph Stalin: A Political Biography (International Publishers: New York, 1949) pp. 30-31. [23] Leonard Shapiro, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Vintage Books: New York, 1971) p. 163. [24] Leonard Shapiro, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union, p. 163. [25] Leonard Shapiro, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union, pp. 163-164. [26] Josef Stalin, "The War" contained in J.V. Stalin Works Volume 3 (Foreign Languages Publishing House: Moscow, 1953) p. 7. [27] Josef Stalin, "The War" contained in J. V. Stalin Works: Volume 3, p. 8. [28] V. I. Lenin, "The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution" contained in Lenin Collected Works: Volume 24 AprilJune 1917 (Progress Publishers: Moscow, 1974) pp. 19-26. [29] Service, Robert (2005) Stalin: A Biography. p. 172 ISBN 978-0-330-41913-0 [32] Service, Robert (2005) Stalin: A Biography, ISBN 978-0-330-41913-0 [33] Fainsod & Hough 1979, p. 111 (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=38gMzMRXCpQC& pg=PA111). [38] Soviet Readers Finally Told Moscow Had Trotsky Slain (http:/ / query. nytimes. com/ gst/ fullpage. html?res=950DE3DF133EF936A35752C0A96F948260). Published in the New York Times on 5 January 1989. Retrieved 4 October 2007 [40] Figes, Orlando The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia, 2007, ISBN 0-8050-7461-9 [41] Gellately 2007. [42] Kershaw, Ian and Lewin, Moshe (1997) Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison, Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-56521-9, p. 300 [43] Kuper, Leo (1982) Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-03120-3 [44] Brackman 2001, p.204. [45] The exact number of negative votes is unknown. In his memoirs Anastas Mikoian writes that out of 1225 delegates, around 270 voted against Stalin and that the official number of negative votes was given as three, with the rest of ballots destroyed. Following Khrushchev's secret speech in 1956, a commission of the central comitee investigated the votes and found that 267 ballots were missing. [46] Brackman 2001, pp.2056. [47] Brackman 2001, p.207. [48] Overy 2004, p.182. [49] Tucker 1992, p.456. [50] Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books, 2010. ISBN 0-465-00239-0 p. 137 [52] The scale of Stalin's purge of Red Army officers was exceptional90% of all generals and 80% of all colonels were killed. This included three out of five Marshals, 13 out of 15 Army commanders, 57 of 85 Corps commanders, 110 of 195 divisional commanders and 220 of 406 brigade commanders as well as all commanders of military districts: p. 195, Carell, P. (1964) Hitler's War on Russia: The Story of the German Defeat in the East. translated from German by Ewald Osers, B.I. Publications New Delhi, 1974 (first Indian edition) [53] Tucker, Robert C. (1999) Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation, , American Council of Learned Societies Planning Group on Comparative Communist Studies, Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-7658-0483-2, p. 5 [54] Overy 2004, p.338. 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Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-12389-2 p. 2 [69] Boobbyer 2000, p.130. [70] Pohl, Otto, Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 19371949, ISBN 0-313-30921-3 [72] Bullock 1962, pp.904906. [75] Stalin, Joseph, Dizzy with success (http:/ / www. marx2mao. com/ Stalin/ DS30. html), Pravda, 2 March 1930 [76] Stalin, Joseph, Reply to Collective Farm Comrades (http:/ / www. marx2mao. com/ Stalin/ RCFC30. html), Pravda, 3 April 1930

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[77] " Ukraine Irks Russia With Push to Mark Stalin Famine as Genocide (http:/ / www. bloomberg. com/ apps/ news?pid=20601085& sid=akRdu1cuBPKg& refer=europe)". Bloomberg.com. 3 January 2008 [80] Bullock 1962, p.269. [82] According to Ellman, although the 1946 drought was severe, government mismanagement of its grain reserves largely accounted for the population losses. [88] France Mesl, Gilles Pison, Jacques Vallin France-Ukraine: Demographic Twins Separated by History (http:/ / www. ined. fr/ en/ resources_documentation/ publications/ pop_soc/ bdd/ publication/ 47/ ), Population and societies, N413, juin 2005 [89] ce Mesl, Jacques Vallin Mortalit et causes de dcs en Ukraine au XX sicle + CDRom ISBN 2-7332-0152-2 CD online data (partially Ined.fr (http:/ / www. ined. fr/ fichier/ t_publication/ cdrom_mortukraine/ cdrom. htm) [90] Kulchytsky, Stanislav and Yefimenko, Hennadiy (2003) 1933 . . 1937 . : (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20070708024619/ http:/ / www. history. org. ua/ kul/ contents. htm) (Demographic consequence of Holodomor of 1933 in Ukraine. The all-Union census of 1937 in Ukraine), Kiev, Institute of History [91] Wheatcroft, Stephen G. (2001) " 19311933 ." (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20080320010655/ http:/ / lj. streamclub. ru/ history/ tragedy. html) (On demographic evidence of the tragedy of the Soviet village in 19311833), " : 19271939 .: . 3. 19301933 .", , ISBN 5-8243-0225-1, p. 885, apendix 2 [92] Kyiv court accuses Stalin leadership of organizing famine (http:/ / www. kyivpost. com/ news/ city/ detail/ 56954/ ), Kyiv Post (13 January 2010) [93] Ukraine court finds Bolsheviks guilty of Holodomor genocide (http:/ / en. rian. ru/ exsoviet/ 20100113/ 157536602. html), (13 January 2010) [97] Olival Freire, Jr.: Marxism and the Quantum Controversy: Responding to Max Jammer's Question (http:/ / anikov. myweb. uga. edu/ intel/ freire. pdf) [98] Pter Szegedi Cold War and Interpretations in Quantum Mechanics (http:/ / hps. elte. hu/ ~szegedi/ cikkek/ coldw. doc) [99] Acton, Edward (1995) Russia, The Tsarist and Soviet Legacy, Longmann Group Ltd, ISBN 0-582-08922-0 [101] Pospielovsky, Dimitry V. (1988) A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice, and the Believer, vol 2: Soviet Anti-Religious Campaigns and Persecutions, St Martin's Press, New York p. 89 [103] < [104] Joseph V.Stalin. "Voprosy leninizma", 2nd ed., Moscow, p. 589; (1951) "Istoricheskij materializm", ed. by F. B. Konstantinov, Moscow, p. 402; P. Calvert (1982). "The Concept of Class", New York, pp. 144145 [105] See also: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago 19181956, 19731976 ISBN 0-8133-3289-3 [106] http:/ / m. guardian. co. uk/ education/ 2002/ sep/ 12/ highereducation. historyandhistoryofart [108] Montefiore 2004, p.649. [109] A century of genocide: utopias of race and nation (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=W50Gg4o_2q4C& pg=PA82). Eric D. Weitz (2003). Princeton University Press. p.82. ISBN 0-691-00913-9 [110] Nicholas Werth, "A state against its people: violence, repression and terror in the Soviet Union" in Stphane Courtois, Mark Kramer. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=H1jsgYCoRioC& pg=PA223). Harvard University Press, 1999. pp. 33268 (223). ISBN 0-674-07608-7 [111] " Recording a Hidden History (http:/ / www. washingtonpost. com/ wp-dyn/ content/ article/ 2006/ 04/ 04/ AR2006040401908. html)". The Washington Post. 5 April 2006 [112] Roberts 2006, p.98. [114] Applebaum 2003. [115] See also: Gellately (2007) p. 584: "Anne Applebaum is right to insist that the statistics 'can never fully describe what happened.' They do suggest, however, the massive scope of the repression and killing." [116] Gellately 2007, p.256. [121] Naimark, Norman M. Stalin's Genocides (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity). Princeton University Press, 2010. pp. 134135. ISBN 0-691-14784-1 [122] Rosefielde, Steven. Red Holocaust. Routledge, 2009. ISBN 0-415-77757-7 pg. 259 [123] Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books, 2010. ISBN 0-465-00239-0 pp. vii, 413 [124] Davies, R. W. and Wheatcroft, Stephen G. (2004) The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 19311933, ISBN 0-333-31107-8 [125] Andreev, EM, et al. (1993) Naselenie Sovetskogo Soiuza, 19221991. Moscow, Nauka, ISBN 5-02-013479-1 [127] Montefiore (2004) p. 649: "Perhaps 20 million had been killed; 28million deported, of whom 18million had slaved in the Gulags" [130] Gellately (2007) p. 584: "More recent estimations of the Soviet-on-Soviet killing have been more 'modest' and range between ten and twenty million." and Stphane Courtois. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror Repression. Harvard University Press, 1999. p. 4: "U.S.S.R.: 20 million deaths." [131] Brent, Jonathan (2008) Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia. Atlas & Co., 2008, ISBN 0977743330 Introduction online (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20090224230330/ http:/ / atlasandco. com/ images/ uploads/ samples/ pdf/ InsideStalinArchives-web. pdf) (PDF file): Estimations on the number of Stalin's victims over his twenty-five year reign, from 1928 to 1953, vary widely, but 20 million is now considered the minimum.

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[132] Rosefielde, Steven (2009) Red Holocaust. Routledge, ISBN 0-415-77757-7 p.17: "We now know as well beyond a reasonable doubt that there were more than 13 million Red Holocaust victims 192953, and this figure could rise above 20 million." [133] Naimark, Norman (2010) Stalin's Genocides (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity). Princeton University Press, p. 11: "Yet Stalin's own responsibility for the killing of some fifteen to twenty million people carries its own horrific weight..." [134] Conquest, Robert (1991) The Great Terror: A Reassessment, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-507132-8 [135] Conquest, Robert (2007) The Great Terror: A Reassessment, 40th Anniversary Edition, Oxford University Press, in Preface, p. xvi: "Exact numbers may never be known with complete certainty, but the total of deaths caused by the whole range of Soviet regime's terrors can hardly be lower than some fifteen million." [136] Regimes murdering over 10 million people (http:/ / www. hawaii. edu/ powerkills/ MEGA. HTM). hawaii.edu [137] Rummel, R.J. (1 May 2006) How Many Did Stalin Really Murder? (http:/ / www. distributedrepublic. net/ archives/ 2006/ 05/ 01/ how-many-did-stalin-really-murder/ ) [138] Roberts 2006, pp.3032. [139] Shirer 1990, pp.510535. [140] Murphy 2006, pp.2428. [141] Kochan, Lionel (1963) The Struggle For Germany. 19141945. New York [142] Ericson 1999, p.57. [143] Roberts 1992, p.64. [144] Vehvilinen, Olli, Finland in the Second World War: Between Germany and Russia, Macmillan, 2002, ISBN 0-333-80149-0, p. 30 [145] Roberts 1992, pp.5778. [146] Encyclopdia Britannica (2008) German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (http:/ / www. britannica. com/ EBchecked/ topic/ 230972/ German-Soviet-Nonaggression-Pact) [147] Text of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (http:/ / www. fordham. edu/ halsall/ mod/ 1939pact. html), executed 23 August 1939 [148] Christie, Kenneth, Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe: Ghosts at the Table of Democracy, RoutledgeCurzon, 2002, ISBN 0-7007-1599-1 [149] Shirer, William L. (1990) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0-671-72868-7, p. 541 [150] Roberts 2006, p.43. [151] Wettig 2008, p.20. [152] Wettig 2008, pp.2021. [153] Senn, Alfred Erich, Lithuania 1940 : revolution from above, Amsterdam, New York, Rodopi, 2007 ISBN 978-90-420-2225-6 [154] Montefiore 2004, p.334. [155] Kennedy-Pipe, Caroline, Stalin's Cold War, New York: Manchester University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-7190-4201-1 [156] Roberts 2006, p.53. [157] Brackman 2001, p.341. [158] Roberts 2006, p.58. [159] Brackman 2001, pp.341, 343. [160] Roberts 2006, p.59. [161] Roberts 2006, p.63. [162] Roberts 2006, p.82. [163] Harthoorn, R. (2011) Vuile oorlog in Den Haag (Dirty war in The Hague), ISBN 978-90-75879-48-3, p. 96 [164] Roberts 2006, p.67. [166] Roberts 2006, p.68. [167] Murphy 2006, p.xv. [168] Roberts 2006, p.89. [169] Roberts 2006, p.90. [170] Roberts 2006, pp.1167. [171] Glantz, David, The Soviet-German War 194145: Myths and Realities: A Survey Essay, 11 October 2001, p. 7 [172] Roberts 2006, pp.114115. [173] Roberts 2006, p.88. [174] Roberts 2006, pp.1178. [175] Hitler, Adolf; Hugh-Trevor Roper. Hitler's Table Talk 19411944 (http:/ / www. archive. org/ stream/ HitlersTableTalk#page/ n591/ mode/ 2up), p. 587. [176] Roberts 2006, p.124. [177] Time Magazine, Josef Stalin (http:/ / www. time. com/ time/ subscriber/ personoftheyear/ archive/ stories/ 1942. html), 4 January 1943 [178] Roberts 2006, p.155. [179] Roberts 2006, p.156. [180] Roberts 2006, p.159. [181] Roberts 2006, p.163. [182] Roberts 2006, p.180.

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Joseph Stalin The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (1986) (http://www.ditext.com/ conquest/harvest.html) Hitler vs. Stalin: Who Was Worse? (http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/jan/27/ hitler-vs-stalin-who-was-worse/) by Timothy Snyder Part One Booknotes interview with Simon Sebag Montefiore on Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, 20 June 2004. (http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/182346-1/Simon+Sebag+Montefiore.aspx) Part Two of Booknotes interview with Montefiore, 27 June 2004. (http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/ 182346-2/Simon+Sebag+Montefiore.aspx)
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