... to different currents occupying the international Communist world. When Joseph Stalin died in March of 1953, the KKE, already dependent on its international comrades, had to adapt to the changes taking place in the Soviet Bloc. The new leadership in Moscow had little sympathy for the old Stalinist Greeks...

..., enjoyed increasing advantages in manpower and material. In addition, the Red Army’s officer corps was increasingly professional, and Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin had come to trust their judgment. Although Soviet casualties always remained higher than German, the Soviet economy and population base sustained...

... policy Union republic entitled nationhood Karabakh Soviet institutions nation-building Turkey Azerbaijan Cold War Georgian nation-builders Joseph Stalin Georgia Soviet federalism In 1945, Stalin’s Soviet Union achieved arguably its greatest feat: victory over Nazi Germany. From...

...This chapter looks at the succession struggle in Moscow and its effects on the environment in which substate leaders operated. It discusses the death of Joseph Stalin in March 1953 that unleashed a succession struggle and caused sweeping effects on the dynamics of regional rule. It also mentions...

... Khrushchev, Joseph Stalin, and the more accommodating stance of Khrushchev's successor, Leonid Brezhnev. It also discusses the key turning point in relations between the authoritarian leadership in Moscow and their principals in the regions that was caused by a rupture that took place toward the end of 1960...

... Uyghur fake news Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin Edward Hallett Carr Xi Jinping It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceeded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry. E. H. Carr (1939) Edward Hallett Carr argued that along with military and economic power...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the defense industry in the Soviet Union during the regime of Joseph Stalin. It suggests that defense issues were at the core of Stalin's dictatorship and that when he became a dictator, he did not want, and indeed came to fear...

...This book examines the violent excesses of Stalinism and the culture that made them possible. It considers how the omnipresence of terror that marked Joseph Stalin's regime is to be understood and looks at the source of violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, as well as the sort of havoc...

... and uncertainty ruling the Soviet Union at this time allowed Joseph Stalin to live out his fantasies of total power and sate his lust for violence. The Bolsheviks' crusade against old Russia opened the floodgates of unabated violence. In the chaos created by the campaigns of the Cultural Revolution...

...This chapter describes Stalinism as a dictatorship of dread. It shows how Joseph Stalin's slave state destroyed and uprooted millions in a series of violent interventions that showed no regard for either human lives or dignity. Kolkhoz peasants were bound to the land, while draconian disciplinary...

...In this chapter, Maya Plisetskaya talks about Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, politics in Russia, the Great Terror under Joseph Stalin, her mother's incarceration in Butyrki Prison near Moscow, and her father's execution by firing squad on January 7, 1938. Maya...

...-intelligentsia and their association with the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin, their link to Communism and the Russian Revolution, and the emergence of Joseph Stalin as leader of the quasi-intelligentsia. Intelligentsia under Brezhnev Constitutional Democrats Herzen Alexander Narodnaya Volya The People's...

...Joseph Stalin and his successors always insisted that the system he created was the realization of the socialist society predicted by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Most commentators on the right cited the horrors of Stalinism as evidence of the evils of Marxism or even of socialism in general...

... assumed the institutional form of totalitarianism. In Russia, postrevolutionary dictatorship was characterized by the organizational and ideological continuity maintained by Joseph Stalin between the revolutionary era and his own regime. Stalin himself emerged from the apparatus of the party...

...Given his reputation, one may ask whether Joseph Stalin was really a Communist. This question acquired direct practical significance after the revolution against Stalinism that culminated in 1991. Both anti-Communists of the left and the proponents of perestroika in the Soviet Union insisted...

... Party, Joseph Stalin assumed the role of postrevolutionary dictator and launched his “revolution from above.” The course of the moderate revolutionary revival has not been smooth for Russia. English Revolution Moderate revolutionary revival and Gorbachev Revolution of 1830 French Time of Troubles...

.... In 1990, Volkogonov published his four-volume biography of Joseph Stalin, followed by biographies of Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin and his posthumously published history of the Soviet system in which he provides sketches of its seven leaders: Lenin, Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri...

...Up to the autumn of 1941, Soviet-Jewish farmers plowed the fields of northern Crimea, not only in practice but also in more abstract forms. Under Joseph Stalin, millions of Soviet citizens as well as Jews in the agricultural colonies lived in horror. This chapter explores how the Jewish colonists...

...This chapter examines how the Great Break of 1929 affected the Jewish population in the Soviet Union. It considers the consequences of the Soviet doctrine of a “great break” in industry and agriculture, which marked the beginning of Joseph Stalin's autocracy for Soviet life...

...The death of Joseph Stalin resulted to the installation of Nikita Khrushchev as the new leader of the Soviet Union. Alongside this, the Soviet government adopted a different approach for improving the efficiency of the countryside and agricultural productivity. Khrushchev, who was born and raised...