Stalin

There was no room in the celebrations to mention Russia's wartime allies or to re-examine Stalin's destructive war strategy.

Subject matter: It can't be easy to put a positive spin on Stalin, under whose leadership more than 20 million Russians lost their lives.

But once the "Institute for the Brain" confirmed what Stalin wanted to hear, he decided to keep those "findings" secret.

When he wasn't busy sending people to the Gulag, Joseph Stalin relaxed by settling himself in with a cool drink and a roaring fire. . .

What lessons, if any , does Stalin seem to draw from his war experience ?

Stalin's idea was that scientists would study the brain to prove that the Soviet founder had been a genius.

Stalin said he would two or three months after Germany's surrender.

Stalin feared that the multi-ethnic Soviet Union was a breeding ground for fifth-columnists, who would aid the enemy in case of war.

We hear much more now about how much of an effective manager Stalin was, much more than in the 1990s, and much less about the repression.

To do this, he was (like Stalin) prepared to use and then discard one trusted lieutenant, and one ideological slogan, after another.

That Stalin was a Georgian did not save the region from his brutality.

No doubt Stalin remained skeptical, but it was as loud and powerful a commitment as Roosevelt could give him.

Here and further, Stalin speaks in a thick accent. As far as our limited skills go, this accent seems to be untranslatable into English.

The use of illegals, of the type rounded up in the United States, is an old KGB throwback that traces to the Stalin era.

But little by little, it began to appear that Comrade Stalin got something much more practical out of his deal.

Stalin's birthplace, the "wine-and-song-filled Georgia" , was one of the first to descend into anarchy.

In hindsight, it's not too hard to see that figures like Stalin and Mao were precisely the sort Marx had in mind.

Nor didany Marxist thinker until Stalin imagine that this was possible, includingLenin, Trotsky and the rest of the Bolshevik leadership.

Yet the truth is that the allies were not at all sure they would win, even once Stalin's huge army had begun to march westwards.

This was the case with the victory and consolidation of the great October Revolution, as Lenin and Stalin told us long ago.

Since that was also the name of Stalin's daughter, the poem brought the tall, tinny-voiced, stuttering young man to the dictator's notice.

Apologists for Joseph Stalin used to justify such brutality by arguing that you could not make an omelette without breaking eggs.

The question of Stalin concerns the entire international communist movement and involves the Communist Parties of all countries.

And the rehabilitation of Stalin as a strong and pragmatic leader is part of it.

Even Joseph Stalin was nominated twice for his efforts to end World War II (he did not win).

Might have been the other way around: Stalin acting as a Svengali on Lenin.

His predictions that the economy would eventually decline were not popular with Stalin who sent him to Siberia to be executed.

The somewhat poetical definitions of the figure of a communist that we find in Stalin's work are to be taken literally.

When the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died in 1953, the German prisoners hoped to be allowed to return home.

and back in Moscow again in 1945 when he receives skin-crawling personal compliments from Joseph Stalin on his Russian language skills.

Soviet leader Josef Stalin wanted to see communism spread around the world.

Harry Truman was an indifferent president who needlessly dropped A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, designed to intimidate Stalin.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. "- Joseph Stalin"

His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, was an electrical engineer, who trained in Moscow at the Stalin Automobile Works.

But in 1961, Stalin's remains were moved to a simpler grave near the Kremlin, shown above, as part of a de-Stalinization process.

If he were to win the presidential race in 2018, he could become the longest-running leader of Russia since Joseph Stalin.

Stalin needed a nuclear bomb and realised that scientists' brains do not work unless you allow them a certain amount of freedom.

JEFFREY SACHS: The planned economy of Lenin and Stalin had defeated fascism. Scientific socialism seemed to be in the ascendancy.

This appointment, coinciding with Stalin's campaign against "formalism" and "rootless cosmopolitans " proved as much a curse as a reward.

Stalin agreed that this was undoubtedly a sore subject .

and with it, Stalin accelerated the socialist construction in Soviet Union.

This year at least four Russian regions expressed their willingness to install statues of Stalin on their streets.

The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet conferred on Tovarish Stalin the Order of Lenin and gave him the title of "Hero of Socialist Labor. "

The realities of war had changed Stalin's attitude since the terrifying days of his prewar purges.

"Nostalgia for the period when Stalin ruled with an iron hand is still widespread in Russia, " AFP noted.

A few days ago a conference of the leaders of the three Allied nations - Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill - took place at Teheran.

Chapter III of the scientific concept of Stalin brief combing, clear view of sciences basic position on Stalin and the basic point of view.

Brought before Stalin and a roomful of Party officials, marshals and generals, Vodopyanov was asked for a mission report and summary.

His only claim to fame (ie The only remarkable thing about him) is that he once met Stalin .

Earlier this month a human rights organization claims it had its archive of Stalin atrocities (2) taken away by police.

But his devotion to socialist principles and indiscreet hostility to Stalin's autocratic rule led to his undoing.

There was a time when Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin could shape the world in one meeting.

As a young man, therefore, Stalin had the worst possible heredity, education, and development.

During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt had asked the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, to enter the war against Japan.

Stalin was also said to have been one of Brezhnev's heroes.

However, under Stalin, the women's liberation movement began to take steps backwards.

How do you think he would answer Stalin 's argument that anti-kulak policies will also offend middle peasants?

The Politburo's (Stalin's) execution order for Polish officers, therefore, had to be present among Politburo documents.

He did not question the role of Stalin until after the tyrant's death.

So again, it depends upon you and not on the leaders, not on Stalin, Churchill, and all the rest of them.

I asked Wang what he thought of Stalin. "Nobody is perfect " he replied. "Even saints make mistakes. "

Stalin was insistent that this should take place at Teheran.

Somebody persuaded Stalin to execute the cream of his officer corps during the years Hitler rose to power.

Even Stalin, no guileless observer, believed in and, to his later regret, protected Mao.

Stalin obviously had an acute and particular sense of history.

Poles find the wording infuriating: the Hitler-Stalin carve-up of eastern Europe was a crime, not a mere historical backdrop.

Syngman Rhee lost elections, about to lose control of SK government. The war was planned and initiated by Stalin and Kim.

It is a shadow commonplace that Roosevelt was "outsmarted" at the later conference in Yalta and gave away too much to Stalin.

The Kremlin has massively rewritten history, approving textbooks that rehabilitate Stalin as an "effective manager. "

Statues of Stalin will once again be raised all over the nation and the spector of nuclear war will again haunt the earth.

Bullitt in the Yalta deal whereby President Roosevelt invited Stalin to come into Manchuria and join the war against Japan.

You know, there already is a Joseph Stalin.

Apparently, there was Stalin's order to recommend one or two men for a Hero of the Soviet Union from each type of artillery units.

Stalin said that if he understood the question rightly, he was in favor if assuring free navigation to and from the Baltic Sea.

Fifty years earlier, before Emil was even born, Stalin had accused his father of Trotskyism and shipped him to Norilsk.

In poster versions for the campaign the images of other dictators such as Joseph Stalin and Saddam Hussein have also been used.

Acting on the information, Stalin moved his troops to the Western Front where they would make a decisive stand against invading Nazi forces.

Marx has suffered not only from sycophants, but from critics who identify him with the Stalin dictatorship or even the regime of Mao Zedong.

The convener of a teachers' union, the delightfully named Joseph Stalin, says teachers are refusing to mark exam papers.

The corruption of Kansas City politics probably helped him to prepare for dealing with Stalin in the postwar era.

Adolf Hitler's decision to break his treaty with Soviet leader Josef Stalin and attack the Soviet Union made Roosevelt's choice final.

I addressed myself first to Stalin , who I knew favoured the idea of a rendezvous at Teheran .

Successive leaders beginning with Stalin had valued his competence; none had seen him as a potential rival.

By the time Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met again at Yalta, an Allied victory was almost guaranteed.

Harry Truman's Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, decided Chinese Communists had become a mere satrap of Stalin.

Among themany victims of Stalin's purge of the party elite was the party boss of Kiev and candidate memberof the Politburo, Pavel Postyshev.

Over the years, the idealized image of Trotsky as the enlightened alternative to Stalin steadily faded.

Before Preceedings, Churchill and Stalin agreed that Roosevelt the only head of state would preside at the first formal session.

Although Kazakhs are a majority, the country has millions of Russians, Ukrainians and descendants of other nationalities exiled by Stalin.

Reich predicted that America's liberated excesses would be countered by repression, just like in Stalin's Russia.

At a government meeting, Khrushchev criticized Stalin fiercely in look and voice. Suddenly someone in the auditoria interrupted his speech.

The move also reflects a new willingness by Moscow to accept responsibility for one of the most shameful episodes of the bloody Stalin era.

The Nazi party never experienced the ritual purges that were a habitual feature of Soviet Communist Party life under Stalin.

The British politicians didn't want to offend Stalin, or so they said, but they ought to have known better.

Zinoviev prepared a fifty-five-page attack on Stalin and demanded that it be distributed to all Central Committee members.

After the revolutionary storm subsided there was a Cromwell, a Napoleon, a Stalin .

Stalin's philosophy is the formation of the revolutionary practice and his inseparable from the experience.

"There was control after the last war, " said Stalin, "but it failed. "

Moreover, they have been issuing such calls almost since the day that Stalin took power.

Against position of Stalin's doctrine because of it, enemy that Hook is considered to be Marxism critical.

Stalin also knew Germany was no match for the USSR.

this year, Moscow's mayor proposed allowing posters depicting Stalin as part of the annual celebrations of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev harshly criticized the late Josef Stalin in a speech before a Communist Party congress in Moscow.

Stalin rode Churchill hard, all during the meal that evening, about his tenderness for the Germans.

They cast their critics as a blend of the querulous Neville Chamberlain and craven apologists for Stalin.

It is clear that here Stalin showed in a whole series of cases his intolerance, his brutality and his abuse of power.

We understand Stalin's intentions by removing comrades, but what is the purpose of these Iranian missile photographs?

But he cringed when a classic Stalin-era comedy, "The Cossacks of Kuban" , painted a picture of abundance in Russian villages.

Stalin asked with what Government he would have to negotiate.

The quarrelsome and impoverished lands of eastern Europe were Roosevelt's sop to Stalin for his country's terrible sacrifices.

Partly because planned economies don't work (blame Lenin and Stalin for that).

Many Chinese feel that Stalin cheated their country out of sovereignty over Mongolia.

The Soviet delegation vetoed any definition of genocide that might include the actions of its leader, Josef Stalin.

Should the authorities move Lenin from his Red Square mausoleum or repent for Stalin's crimes to draw a line under the violent 20th century?

Its revelations about Stalin's policies and the evils of the labour camps were described as "a literary miracle" .

Burlatsky says the basic flaw of Stalin's Soviet system was reflected in the word soviet itself.

Stalin glorified motherhood in an effort to restore traditional household roles.

In his grandfather's house, works and portraits of Stalin and Lenin peacefully coexisted with Russian Orthodox icons.

From Stalin's era on, every other Abkhaz family had a KGB officer, a secret agent, or an informer among their relatives.

are you joking? a KGB tough guy a "man of peace" ? inside his head, he is worst than stalin was.

A Moscow court has rejected a lawsuit filed by the grandson of Joseph Stalin claiming a Russian newspaper had defamed the Soviet dictator.

Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe. By Robert Gellately.

Thousands of Germans, including teenagers, were forced to toil in Stalin's labor camps after World War II.

Mr Mikhalkov's lyrics did not long survive Stalin's death in 1953.

Had they been positioned in defensive deployments behind the Stalin Line, this rout would not have happened.

Stalin: My marshal's baton* is the personification of unbending will power for victory of the multinational Soviet people!

Oddly enough, the fiercely capitalist Koch family owes part of its fortune to Joseph Stalin.

Ifthe settlers were connected by anything, it was only the intolerance, scapegoating and xenophobia driven by Stalin.

The revelations about the crimes of the Stalin era have all come too late, and life today in the former Soviet Union is so hard.

Lenin and Stalin wiped out the old Russian intelligentsia as a political force.

He was followed by Stalin who spoke to me in a similar strain.

In other words, North Korea fight the war right to the highest decision-making in the Stalin.

So Ms Grybauskaite avoids the embarrassment of being pictured against the pictures of Stalin which are likely to adorn the Moscow streets.

Stalin agreed at Yalta to hold free elections in Poland, and that's a serious commitment.

President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta.

If asked, they could get asylum for Stalin, he said.

That is, if you are not praising Stalin but are trying to assess his work objectively - this makes you a Russophobe.

This goes beyond Stalin's wilful refusal to prepare for an invasion, despite countless warnings.

Stalin was not directly responsible for the Holocaust, but his pact with the Nazis paved the way for Hitler's killing of Jews in the east.

But Stalin, who liked uplifting stories and pictures featuring combine harvesters, banned their work as subversive and decadent.

Perhaps, the United States followed the wrong foreign policies, after the demise of Stalin.

Stalin and Khrushchev demanded vast projects, and if others offered suggestions for improvement, they did so at risk of their lives.

Some observers have expressed alarm in recent years that Russia may be quietly rehabilitating Stalin.

Lithuania believed that the "Stalin world" is a place to remember the misery communism brought to the deported.

This article on Stalin's philosophy of research and evaluation of the scientific method is: the unity of history and logic.

Stalin and his ally Bukharin were only following Lenin's own advice, and who were Trotsky and Zinoviev to dispute Lenin?

Communist legislators tried to amend the statement to remove the naming of Stalin, but were defeated.

Bukharin, the main foreign policy spokesman for the Stalin team, spelled out why the purge of the Chinese communists was actually a victory.

It is not necessarily a tale about Stalin, although Stalin's guiding hand can be seen throughout.

Are the opposition recognizable as members of the same party described by Stalin?

Stalin, interrupting: "No, with your help. "

When war ended, Stalin's calculations changed. The Japanese no longer threatened.

He told the British parliament after the conference that Stalin and other Soviet leaders wished to live in honorable friendship.

Hitler's attack on Russia, shortly after his pact with Stalin, was a stunning demarche.

But it has done so, as did Stalin and Mao, at a staggering human cost.

The political justice of Marxism is created by Marx and Engels, and now is booming by Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping's developed.

They ignored Stalin, praised Lenin and highlighted Russia's role in welding the "unbreakable union of free-born republics" .

This was never an issue for Stalin because the welfare of his people was of no concern.

In spite of the attack on Stalin's personal decision, the dictator listened as Vodopyanov concluded with a request for navigational beacons.

He delighted pensioners with handouts and rebuilt the gold-domed Christ the Saviour Cathedral, destroyed by Stalin.

Stalin poisoned every love relationship in his life for his political mission.

Stalin retained a deep suspicion of Leningrad, making life miserable for the city's residents.

Stalin wanted the Americans and British to distract the Germans in Russia by fighting them on another front, Western Europe.

Stalin also thought communists could use bourgeois parties to gain power and then cast them aside "like squeezed lemons" .

In the 1930s leading Soviet engineers arrested by Stalin laboured in special prison laboratories within the gulag.

Under Malenkov, Stalin's ruthless secret police chief Lavrenti Beria amnestied thousands of political prisoners from the Gulag in 1953.

Mohammad Moeeni has published [Fa] a cartoon that compares Vladimir Putin to the authoritarian former Soviet Union leader, Joseph Stalin.

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia.

For Gorbachev, the horrors of the Stalin era were in the distant past.

Applebaum estimates these victims at just under one million during the Stalin years.

Stalin said a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths, a statistic. But millions of avoidable deaths are millions of tragedies.

Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator, has been blamed for the famine by forcing a policy of collectivization in Ukraine.

Mr Mikhalkov penned the words to two versions of the Soviet national anthem, one glorifying Stalin and one ignoring him.

Unsurprisingly, Russian liberals are not taking Stalin's rehabilitation well.

St Petersburg billboard with reworked slogan "For Motherland! Without Stalin"

and the relation between and evaluation of Stalin's theory of 'One Country Building Socialism' and Stalin's models.

That required a shift in the Kremlin's historical discourse and its taste for Stalin.

The writer is the author of 'Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar'.

But the siren song of liquor-tax revenue proved too tempting for Stalin, who lifted the ban to support the communist autocracy.

Throughout the story Stalin was either acutely aware of what was going on or was guiding events.

Only after Stalin's death in March 1953 Yudin was able to return to Moscow and recommence his work.

As Stalin reputedly said, quantity has a quality all of its own.

In 1992, his replacement, Boris Yeltsin, sent the Poles documentary proof, including the notorious Beria memorandum signed by Stalin.

A couple shows their admiration for Stalin during a communist rally in support of presidential candidate Zyuganov in Moscow.

In the nineteen-thirties, his company trained Bolshevik engineers and helped Stalin's regime set up fifteen modern oil refineries.

Better to pursue multi-ethnic harmony within Stalin's hateful legacy than to redraw the map.

He rose fast, like Stalin and Mao, from within an ostensibly secular, progressive political party.

Stalin revises Marx and Lenin not with the theoreticians pen but with the heel of the GPU.

Replacing capitalism, Time magazine warns, leads straight to Stalin's prison labor camps.

"Stalin is our father, our idol, " says Sergei Obukhov, a communist parliamentarian.

The title I chose was 'Stalin is our Glory in Battle, Stalin is the wings of our Youth.

Unlike some people who have tried to defame and destroy Stalin, we are acting in accordance with objective reality.

The 170-year-old firm has operated in Europe for over 50 years, and its tractors were exported to Stalin's Soviet Union.

a resort city in S Ukraine on the Black Sea; scene of the Allied conference between Churchill and Stalin and Roosevelt in 1945.

However, Stalin had encouraged and financed Mao Zedong's revolution, recognising his communist People's Republic in October 1949.

Witness Stalin's Russia, which made guns at the expense of butter during the 1930s, starving itself great.

That would make him his country's longest-lasting leader since Stalin.

In early 1942 Hitler and Stalin were each looking for a decisive victory on the Eastern Front.

President Vladimir Putin, welcoming this guide, compared Stalin's Great Terror of 1937 with the allied bombing of Hiroshima.

After all, no Marxist academic at Harvard would have wished for the Russian people to suffer the purges of Stalin.

On November 11 M Maisky brought to me Stalin's chilling and evasive reply to this message.

The second part analyses several main factors that could promote and increase the legitimacy of CPSU during Stalin's Period.

It is appallingly offensive to all Russians, and especially the vast number whose own families suffered terribly under Stalin.

Stalin, too, was an avid reader, boasting a library of 20, 000 volumes.

"I remember: Stalin killed most of the Soviet army commandership, " he says.

The Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was imposing his Communist vision on the countryside.

Stalin succeeded and developed Lenins Urban-rural disparity thoughts and formed his theory in the aspect of Urban-rural disparity.

A bitter love triangle set against the larger bitterness of Stalin's gulags.

Semich refers to a passage in Stalin's pamphlet Marxism and the National Question, written at the end of 1912.

A dismantled statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin waits for transport in the Georgian town of Gori.

In 1940, he became he victim of such terror when the new leader of the communist state Josef Stalin had him murdered.

Jozef Stalin slaughtered millions, but even murderous totalitarian dictators need to catch a break.

At World War I's start Stalin was in a prison camp just below the Arctic Circle.

Over time, however, Stalin brutally purged several of Koch's Soviet colleagues.

Stalin: Your stupid lead bullets will not turn back the wheel of history*.

Both Mao and Stalin believed in self-reliance and were reluctant to depend on other countries.

In 1961, the Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb.

Stalin's toxic curse on his children has finally died with Svetlana.

Bad move. Stalin was not amused, and had Mandelstamarrested and sentenced to exile in the Ural Mountains.

earnestly enjoined on us by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, the unity of theory and practice.

Voices were raised against Vogt, bearing the hallmarks of Stalin's operations.

After Joseph Stalin's death in March 1953, new Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov spoke and acted in decidedly non-Stalinist ways.

A series of Stalin cronies condemned him as "bankrupt" and "making crude mistakesfor which the party must judge him. "

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin - Marxism and Problems of Linguistics.

You were once Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Obma. . .

In 1944 Orwell finished Animal Farm , a political fable based on the story of the Russian Revolution and its betrayal by Joseph Stalin.

He started an ambitious system of canals (completed, at vast cost in life, by Stalin's political prisoners).

Yakov's relationship with Stalin, above, was little short of disastrous.

The second problem is that the modernizations of both Stalin and Peter the Great were driven by clear military goals.

Years later I was told that he had drawn a caricature of Stalin. But it wasn't this that caused his arrest.

They say that Stalin had 5 country houses in Abkhazia (in Gagra and on Lake Riza in particular).

The image of Stalin, with his wise, mustachioed smile, filled the void.

Graduate student Gulia, from the Republic of Kazakhstan, stays in a student dormitory in the Stalin Tower.

Marshal Stalin would have to travel over 1, 500 miles from Moscow to meet his fellow Allied leaders.

During the Zhuangzu recognition course, it also describes how to use flexibly Stalin's definition .

Stalin ordered all 1, 000 plus defensive casemates of the formidable Stalin Line defending the USSR's western border destroyed.

"Certainly, " Khrushchev replied. "In a speech before the 20th Party Congress, I admitted all of Stalin's mistakes. "

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. " - Joseph Stalin"

At Tiananmen I've seen portraits of Marx, Engels and Lenin and particularly of Stalin.

Most cadres in our Party are dissatisfied with the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU and think it went too far in attacking Stalin.

The telegram gave the Truman administration the answer it was looking for about how to handle Joseph Stalin.

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. " - Joseph Stalin"

After becoming president in 2000, he restored the Soviet national anthem introduced by Josef Stalin.

Russian dictator Joseph Stalin once said, "Artillery is the god of war" .

He clearly was still winding down from the excitement of meeting Stalin.

This act, Stalin knew, would prompt Britain and France to declare war on Germany.

1943 - Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).

But, speaking historically, it is a view Stalin would undoubtedly have shared.

The two weapons were designed simultaneously, and urgently, in Stalin's Soviet Union, and they worked together quite well.

After World War I, it was resurrected, only to succumb to the conspiracy of Hitler and Stalin in 1939.