As well as mass genocide, Stalin tore thousands of families apart by exiling men to the icy wastes of Siberia. |
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In 1945 Stalin, as the master of East Germany, turned extermination back on the Germans, though his revenge is less well known. |
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Many writers have commented on the brilliance of Trotsky and the dullness of Stalin. |
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Under Stalin and the Bolsheviks, any such opposition was impossible and Bishop von Galen would have been quickly disposed of. |
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Stalin has metamorphosed into a totalitarian dictator intent on conquest, and the storm clouds of a new conflict gather. |
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The pig leader Napoleon and his rival Snowball symbolize the dictator Stalin and the Communist leader Leon Trotsky. |
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As the Stalin Line had been largely dismantled, there was no defence in depth. |
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Was Soviet government policy only a front for a clandestine personal policy pursued by Stalin? |
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He is a man who would send you to Coventry for five days if you made a remark about Stalin. |
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With the declaration from Stalin that socialism was possible in one country, the counter-revolution began. |
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He made the party more amenable to Stalin, but lost a lot of popular support for the party as a result. |
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The irony of that situation was that Stalin judged Hitler to be more rational than in fact he was. |
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In one of her last paintings, Kahlo depicts herself seated contemplatively beneath an enormous portrait of a benign and fatherly Stalin. |
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Roosevelt and Stalin had not yet met, but as Allies they could be shown together. |
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The British interpreter gave his version to the Russian interpreter who then translated for Stalin. |
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In the mid-1920s Stalin, who was by then the ruling party leader, abandoned the Bolsheviks' previous internationalism. |
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The Josef Stalin Museum itself is enormous, winding through interminable corridors over two floors. |
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Stalin saw the organisers of the insurrection as reactionary nationalists who would stand in the way of future Soviet hegemony. |
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The CP also denied the crimes of Stalin and the dictatorships of Eastern Europe. |
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The ill-natured Marx, the venomous Lenin, the murderous Stalin all had a deep-seated loathing of all those who disagreed with them. |
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His emphasis on the coercive and controlling aspects of the state evoked the Stalin legacy. |
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Now, there is no idiocy on the left, except the worship of Stalin, that is not mirrored on the right. |
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If I tell you it features Mexico, fiestas, Trotsky, Stalin and an ice pick, you'll get the historical drift. |
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To a visitor from a non-Islamic planet earth, the Hurrian political system would appear to be an exotic blend of Stalin and a militant Sweden. |
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He has set up a kind of personality cult, which I think now outrivals Hitler or Stalin. |
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During a secret speech in February 1956 he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes. |
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Stalin had to rehabilitate his predecessors to make his style appear progressive. |
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The reader is led to believe that Stalin oriented his military commanders toward a preemptive strike by the Red Army. |
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Stalin felt that the key to victory was as much political and economic strategy as military. |
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This is to be the last capitulation of a leading oppositionist to be accepted by Stalin. |
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Stalin at first panicked, but then assumed personal control over military operations. |
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In a report to Stalin a high-ranking official complained that in Orel okrug only 45,000 out of 110,000 men could be mobilized. |
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It was to Kazakhstan that Joseph Stalin exiled thousands of prisoners to some of his most brutal gulags. |
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Finally, Stalin promised Soviet entry into the war with Japan around three months after German capitulation. |
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Yugoslavia broke with Stalin in 1948, but its leadership never broke with the nationalist perspective of Stalinism. |
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Stalin closed the show for the three nights and sang four of his classics from his stack of hits. |
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Stalin expanded the system for the purpose of creating a massive labour pool. |
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Eventually Stalin began trading with non-communist countries of western Europe, although he continued to be hostile to Germany. |
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Stalin wanted to extend Soviet influence and control over as much of Europe as possible. |
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It called on writers and intellectuals to abandon neutralism and say No to Stalin as they had once said No to Hitler. |
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He should be bracketed with dictators as Hitler and Stalin for crimes against humanity. |
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Many had sacrificed the urgings of their better nature and committed shameful deeds for Stalin. |
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Stalin and Munzenberg tried to bootstrap a culture of self-hatred in the West. |
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His readers learnt that when gigantic portraits of Stalin were illuminated by electricity entire apartment blocks were blacked out. |
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He exercises power and purges his inner circle much as Stalin did and Stalin, remember, died in his bed. |
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Mass opposition to a war against a dictator who models himself on Stalin is being led by a man who is nostalgic for Stalin. |
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These numbers are of course the final two digits in the years that mark the births and deaths of Hitler and Stalin, respectively. |
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The Yugoslav party, excommunicated by Stalin, developed its own, Titoist version of reform Leninism. |
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The thesis you put forward equating leftist parties has the same credibility as the joke about Hitler and Stalin. |
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Trips can also be arranged to visit the decrepit gulags and labor camps used so mercilessly by Stalin during the Red Terror. |
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These relations thawed somewhat with the conclusion of formal hostilities in Korea and the death of Joseph Stalin. |
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However, a telex from Stalin presenting Eisenstein as a traitor to Russia also weighed heavily on the project. |
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As Hitler's imminent demise was scented, Stalin rose to new heights of prestige at home and abroad. |
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There was the curious fact that whereas Hitler began as a competent strategist and ended as a rotten one, with Stalin it was the other way round. |
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One of the quotes which was repeatedly cited by Stalin concerned the difference drawn by Marx between socialism and communism. |
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His monarchism was held against him after the 1917 Revolution, until Stalin revealed his liking for him. |
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Any idea that Stalin cared for public opinion in Russia is merely laughable. |
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All that means is, they're allied with Khrushchev instead of with the ghost of Stalin. |
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Under Stalin, and after, Soviet newspapers tended to exhort rather than inform, but perceptive readers could read between the lines. |
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Yet almost everything he wrote about Stalin's Soviet Union takes the form of adulatory, gushing hymns to Stalin. |
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Few sore losers could wield sharp words quite like Leon Trotsky, especially when talking about Joseph Stalin. |
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This policy would have put Roosevelt in the same general category of agrarian reform as Stalin and Mao Tse-tung. |
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No longer a card-carrying Communist, he nonetheless stubbornly admires Stalin and overlooks his excesses. |
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Later in life, Stalin would add one, and only one person, to his list of those he cared about. |
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The death toll for which Stalin must bear the blame is not easy to compute, but it cannot be less than twenty million. |
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It reminds me of Stalin airbrushing Trotsky out of the photos. |
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Yes, she grew up in Kikbirnie, heartland of the Ayrshire steelworks, where her school chums rejoiced in names like Lenin McKay and Joseph Stalin McGregor. |
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Stalin is annexed to the general study of pathological dictatorship. |
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When the North Korean leader Kim Il Sung approached Stalin and asked for help to reunify the Korean peninsula, Stalin had no reason to suppose that the US would object. |
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They already knew about Stalin expiring, as that was what the amnesty was for. |
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They were also rejected by the bureaucratic apparatuses which took over first the social democratic and later, under Stalin, the communist parties. |
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When I wrote the novel about the Gulag, House of Meetings, the name Stalin only appears in a footnote very early on. |
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And at CPAC, King told gave conservatives an enemies list that lumped liberals in with genocidal dictators like Stalin and Mao. |
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But then he was betrayed by one of his communist comrades, Stalin. |
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Cautious in so many ways, Stalin trusted in his ability to read the runes of Hitler's intentions without discussing the evidence with anyone else. |
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Just months after the news about Katyn emerged, sikorski challenged Stalin, demanding an independent investigation. |
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In 1944, on the pretext that they had collaborated with the Germans, Stalin ordered the deportation within a few days of the remaining 200,000 Crimean Tatars to Central Asia. |
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Instead, his point was that panic about Stalin was misplaced because Soviet Russia could be contained. |
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His study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the Stalin period. |
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In the event, in the long cat and mouse game that Stalin played with him, the cat did not pounce. |
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Stalin had proved an indispensable ally, the conventional thinking in the FDR administration went. |
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Stalin was of course a secular utopian and materialist, and Applebaum seems to have found no evidence that he ever had any moral scruples or hesitations about the Gulag. |
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The astounding success of the Soviet 1943 summer offensive led Stalin to order a winter offensive to retake all lost Soviet territory, therewith ushering in the third act. |
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In June 1989, the head of the KGB in Leningrad issued a public statement condemning secret-police crimes committed under Stalin. |
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Not quite kulaks for Stalin, maybe, but not exactly all that different either. |
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As a child growing up in communist Poland, I was madly in love with then long dead Stalin. |
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Stalin urged that the invasion should be launched as early as possible so that the Germans would be forced to split their resources between the Eastern and Western fronts. |
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I find it unsettling that Stalin used to toss breadballs at his wife during dinner, that he spoiled his children and that he loved growing mimosas. |
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Hotel Viru quickly became the pride of Intourist, a Soviet travel agency that was founded in the 1920s by Joseph Stalin. |
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The skyline is dominated by the nearby Palace of Culture, a monolith which Stalin constructed as a symbol of his power and as an answer to the skyscrapers of capitalism. |
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Under Josef Stalin, the Soviet Union deported some 200,000 Tatars to Uzbekistan, nearly half of whom died along the way. |
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But unbeknown to the Japanese, Soviet leader Josef Stalin had promised Washington and London that he would attack Japanese forces within three months of Germany's defeat. |
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The Crimean Tatars, however, who were shipped away to Kazakhastan by Stalin after WWII, have no desire to join a resurgent Russia. |
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The murder certainly offered Stalin a way out of a difficult situation, and he had the recent example of Hitler's killing of Brownshirt leaders to inspire him. |
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It was for this reason that Churchill and Roosevelt, while they were together at the Placentia Bay conference, cabled Stalin to suggest the Three-Power conference. |
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Also, the Russian commanders had no wish to be used as cannon fodder and tried to discuss ways in which all anti-communist forces might unite against Stalin. |
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From April 1922 Stalin was the only member of the oligarchy who was simultaneously a full member of the Politburo, the Orgburo, and the Secretariat. |
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He recovered on the 19th, but by then, Stalin, whose confidence in his generals was always easily shaken, had decided to hedge his bet by forestalling the Americans. |
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Stalin had determined on the decapitation of the nations he had conquered. |
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Official records, opened in 1990 when glasnost was still in vogue, show that Stalin had every intention of treating the Poles as political prisoners. |
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Some of the politicians who give grandiloquent speeches on Europe's future seem to know history only as far back as Hitler, Stalin and the Cold War. |
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In fact, Lenin had not been less dictatorial or less ruthless than Stalin. |
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These reserves were developed extensively during industrialization under Stalin. |
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Secretary Marshall became convinced Stalin had no interest in helping restore economic health in Western Europe. |
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They have suffered persecution under Joseph Stalin and after 1990 were offered a chance to get back to Norway. |
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Stalin certainly held this view, and so did many Bolsheviks, with their hypostasization of social forces over individual desires and intentions. |
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Most of these policies were sharply reversed by the early 1930s after Joseph Stalin became the de facto communist party leader. |
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After the Axis invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin began pressing for a second front in Western Europe. |
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Stalin studied Hitler, including reading Mein Kampf and from it knew of Hitler's desire to destroy the Soviet Union. |
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In 1947, Stalin had also denounced the Marshall Plan and forbade all Eastern Bloc countries from participating in it. |
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The first part was published in 1932, the second in 1935, and the whole novel was later awarded the Stalin Prize. |
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Famous Eastern Bloc defectors included Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, who denounced Stalin after her 1967 defection. |
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But Stalin and Mao were also regarded as determined expansionists, and we managed to deter them from using their nukes. |
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Stalin ordered the conversion of the Cominform into an instrument to monitor and control internal affairs of other Eastern Bloc parties. |
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In May 1949, Stalin lifted the blockade, permitting the resumption of Western shipments to Berlin. |
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Excessive use of a leader's portrait, such as that done of Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, or Mao Zedong, can be indicative of a personality cult. |
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His principal admiration was for Stalin, whose regime he championed uncritically throughout the decade. |
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Thereafter, Stalin sought stronger control over other Eastern Bloc countries, abandoning the prior appearance of democratic institutions. |
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Shaw's admiration for Mussolini and Stalin demonstrated his growing belief that dictatorship was the only viable political arrangement. |
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Stalin eventually was convinced by Churchill and Roosevelt not to dismember Germany. |
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In February 1945, at the conference at Yalta, Stalin demanded a Soviet sphere of political influence in Central Europe. |
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Stalin therefore prevented Eastern Bloc nations from receiving Marshall Plan aid. |
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Shortly after the attacks, Stalin protested to US officials when Truman offered the Soviets little real influence in occupied Japan. |
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Initially known by the acronym MVD, the ministry's intelligence unit was renamed NKVD under Stalin. |
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At this conference Truman informed Stalin that the United States possessed a powerful new weapon. |
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Truman, who distrusted Stalin and turned for advice to an elite group of foreign policy intellectuals. |
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Kennan regarded Harriman as too conciliatory in dealing with Stalin. |
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Stalin also sought continued peace with Britain and the United States, hoping to focus on internal reconstruction and economic growth. |
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The CPGB at first supported the war, but after Joseph Stalin signed a treaty with Adolf Hitler, opposed it. |
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Stalin and Hitler, for example, were dictators in favor of freedom of speech for views they liked only. |
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In his biography on Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky mentions that Stalin had studied Esperanto. |
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However, in 1948 Tito broke decisively with Stalin on other issues, making Yugoslavia an independent communist state. |
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The first generation of Sovietologists knew their Stalin, if only because there was little else yet to know in their field. |
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Fearing Buryat nationalism, Joseph Stalin had more than 10,000 Buryats killed. |
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In the late 1920s through the late 1930s, Yakut people were systematically persecuted, when Joseph Stalin launched his collectivization campaign. |
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During that time, Stalin feared that Turkey might take sides with Germany and attack the Caucuses. |
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Stalin offered to quit all posts owning responsibility for the party's debacle in the Lok Sabha polls. |
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He had to maintain the appearance of concentration on defeating Britain, to conceal from Joseph Stalin his covert aim to invade the Soviet Union. |
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Stalin is widely reviled as he was responsible for millions of deaths in political purges, labour camps and forced agricultural collectivisation. |
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It was only at the end of the 1920s that the Comintern was reduced by Stalin to its final state of undifferentiated subservience. |
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Few topics are more prone to the comparatist touch that the regimes of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. |
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The most significant of these meetings was held on 9 October 1944 in the Kremlin between Churchill and Stalin. |
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Soviet leader Josef Stalin at Tehran in 1943 rejected the Jagellon Concept because it involved Polish rule over Ukrainians and Belorussians. |
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One major change from the Atlantic Charter was the addition of a provision for religious freedom, which Stalin approved after Roosevelt insisted. |
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It was instrumental in the Stalinist terror, but after the death of Stalin, the state security police was brought under strict party control. |
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Snyder claims that archival evidence suggests a maximum excess mortality of nine million during the entire Stalin era. |
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Trujillo's regime was marked by a massive cult of personality, comparable only to the cult of Stalin in Russia and Kim in North Korea. |
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Joseph Stalin had bowed out, citing the need for his presence in the Soviet Union to attend to the Stalingrad crisis. |
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Under Stalin, paddy wagons disguised as bread trucks carried millions off to the Gulag. |
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The style fell markedly out of favor in the 1930s, replaced by the more grandiose nationalist styles that Stalin favored. |
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Georgian authorities have removed a historic statue of Joseph Stalin in the former Soviet leader's hometown of Gori, officials have said. |
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Lenin had appointed Stalin the head of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, which gave Stalin considerable power. |
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Stalin agreed to this Percentages agreement, ticking a piece of paper as he heard the translation. |
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On 3 April 1922, Stalin was named the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
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Prevalent styles of the 20th century were the Art Nouveau, Constructivism, and the Stalin Empire style. |
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Putin, a lifelong Marxist-Leninist, as well as a professional Chekist, is merely recycling the lessons learned from the playbooks of Lenin and Stalin. |
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After the rise of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet government rejected modernism on the grounds of alleged elitism, although it had previously endorsed Futurism and Constructivism. |
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Molotov informed the President that Stalin was willing to support Roosevelt's plans for maintaining postwar peace through the Four Policemen and enforced disarmament. |
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Despite the initial institutional design of communism implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Eastern Bloc, subsequent development varied across countries. |
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For many Stalin means victory, economic growth and prosperity. |
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Stalin was aware that the Americans were working on the atomic bomb and, given that the Soviets' own rival program was in place, he reacted to the news calmly. |
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Yet these quibbles pale when placed next to his striking revelation that there was a First Baptist Church in Tiflis, Georgia, where Joseph Stalin attended seminary. |
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After the German Army invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin began pressing his allies for the creation of a second front in western Europe. |
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However, Joseph Stalin, an elected General Secretary of the Communist Party, managed to suppress all opposition groups within the party and consolidate power in his hands. |
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Like other people of the Soviet Union who suffered persecution under Stalin, some Cossacks greeted the advancing German army as liberators from Stalinism. |
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Initially, Stalin maneuvered to kill the Plan, or at least hamper it by means of destructive participation in the Paris talks regarding conditions. |
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But with a large Irish family to keep in potatoes and a livery of bodyguards that would have made Joseph Stalin look paranoid, he needed the cashola. |
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Stalin murdered seven million kulaks in a bid to wipe out the rich peasantry of rural Russia and collectivise agriculture in a brutal Leninist blueprint. |
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Each photo depicts a grandmotherly looking woman, head covered by a babushka, holding up pictures of Lenin and Stalin, or a Soviet WWII-era propaganda poster. |
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In 1944, Stalin had made guarantees to Churchill and Roosevelt that he would maintain Poland's sovereignty and allow democratic elections to take place. |
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Stalin would not have allowed dripping taps and broken ballcocks. |
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Stalin suspected a possibility that these Eastern Bloc countries might defy Soviet directives not to accept the aid, potentially causing a loss of control of the Eastern Bloc. |
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But what do the memories of the Soviet Union, Communism, Bolshevism or even Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin now mean for normal citizens of the Russian Federation? |
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This crime passionnel was exploited by Stalin to fabricate the existence of secret conspiracies in the Soviet Union and to introduce the purges and the show trials. |
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Soviet leader Joseph Stalin fell ill with smallpox at the age of seven. |
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Multiple old churches and other examples of architectural heritage that had been demolished during the Stalin era have been restored, such as Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. |
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In December 1936, Stalin unveiled a new Soviet Constitution. |
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Roosevelt, and the Premier of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin. |
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A great number of disillusioned young men in the Western world are saying now that it is Stalin who is to blame and proclaiming themselves Trotskyites. |
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One could not have a better example of the moral and emotional shallowness of our time, than the fact that we are now all more or less pro Stalin. |
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Stalin is known to have despised his first son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, who is thought to have committed suicide in 1943 by electrifying himself on a perimeter fence. |
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With the Soviets already occupying most of Central and Eastern Europe, Stalin was at an advantage and the two western leaders vied for his favors. |
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General Secretary Joseph Stalin and the government of the Soviet Union described the Soviet war effort as a war being fought by the Soviet people for their survival. |
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While there he applied for an interview with Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and was amazed to receive a personally signed note apologising for not being able to attend. |
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