Sosso (Stalin's schoolboy nickname) was an excellent student. ... Stalin later said: "This creature softened my stony heart. ... Stalin was highly unimpressed by Lenin at their first meeting. ... In May, Stalin was sent to Petrograd (St. ... She was seventeen when they married, and Stalin was 39. ...
Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution. ... It was at this time that he adopted the name "Stalin," meaning "steel one." ... Even in his final years, Stalin remained dangerous. ... This was a turning point in Stalin's relationship with the rest of the Communist Party. ... (It is important to note that Stalin stood directly behind these trials--he delegated respon...
Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. ... By doing this with the argument of war Stalin kept his rightist support and reunited the Communist party behind the Five Year Plans, massively increasing Stalin's personal power whilst discarding the rightist's power. ... There were also economic reasons to embark on wide scale rapid industrialisation as Stalin proposed. ... The five-year plans presented an opportunity to Stalin to glorify him at the foundations of the communist party. ... Stalin was shown as the master, forcing t...
Stalin urged Churchill and Roosevelt to open a second front. ... Stalin alleged that the Western allies were deliberately holding back a second front to weaken the Soviet Union. The Stalin Hitler Pact of 1939 did not help the Soviet Union in gaining trust from the West either. ... Stalin understood that the United States wanted to cripple the Soviet Union by weakening its economy. ... Stalin agreed to the "Declaration on Liberated Europe" - ba...
On July 18, 1941, Soviet Prime Minister Joseph Stalin requested that the allies create a second front by invading German-occupied France. ... This operation would also help to reduce Stalins suspiciousness of the West by showing that they were not content to leave the actual fighting to the Soviets. ... This infuriated Stalin. ... It was Stalins belief that a united Slavic people would prevent such an event from ever recurring.9 Though American-Soviet relationships seemed to be on a downturn for the worst following Stalins unilateral recognition of the Lublin Committee, the Yalta conference...
In December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) was created, under the communist control of the ruthless, Joseph Stalin. ... These included a United Nations (UN) Organisation to keep world peace, although Stalin had not taken part in these discussions. ... The Hiroshima bomb severely angered and worried Stalin as America was now successfully able to call itself the strongest superpower in the world. ... "Stalin had become a popular figure in Europe and in the United States. ... Stalin may have intended to use this bloc as an enormous "buffer" zone for defence. ...
The two countries fought against Germany during World War II, but this alliance began to dissolve in 1944-1945, when the Russian leader Joseph Stalin, seeking Soviet security, used the Red Army to control much of Eastern Europe. ... Truman opposed Stalin's policy and moved to unite Europe under American leadership. ... Stalin failed to honor pledges to hold free elections in Eas...
When developing my research I came across this cartoon from the New York Times in 1949.8 The message is clearly that coming from an American point of view it has to hold up the world through a globalisation of its ideas and way of life, in order to keep the world out of the hands of the USSR and Stalin. ...
"From almost every point of view, economically and militarily, in absolute and in relative terms, the USSR under Brezhnev was much more powerful than it had been under Stalin... Either they could continue the hard-line, socialist policies set forth by Stalin and embraced by Brezhnev and fall into a pit of worthlessness, or the Soviet Union could try and integrate itself more into the world society moving toward entente. ...
Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...
As the bombs continued to fall and the fires continued burn a question arose from the rubble of what was once Germany. The question was how to deal with Germany. Germany was responsible for the start of World War II and they were partially responsible for the start of World War I. Since Germany has ...
