Stalin, Joseph — orig. Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili born Dec. 21, 1879, Gori, Georgia, Russian Empire died March 5, 1953, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. Soviet politician and dictator. The son of a cobbler, he studied at a seminary but was expelled for… … Universalium
Stalin, Joseph — 1879–1953 Stalin was the Dictator of the USSR and Commander in Chief of the USSR’s Armed Forces. Stalin was suspicious of the army and its commanders and in order to get their complete loyalty in 1937 he had purged all those he considered… … Who’s Who in World War Two
Stalin, Joseph — (1878–1953) Real name: Ioseb Besarionis Jugashvili, also known as Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin. Politician. Born to a poor family in Gori, Georgia, Stalin rose through the Bolshevik ranks to become Vladimir Lenin’s successor. He assumed the… … Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation
Stalin,Joseph — Sta·lin (stäʹlĭn, stălʹĭn), Joseph. Originally Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. 1879 1953. Soviet politician. The successor of Lenin, he was general secretary of the Communist Party (1922 1953) and premier (1941 1953) of the USSR. His rule was… … Universalium
Stalin, Joseph Vissaronovich — (1878–1953) Born into the family of a drunken cobbler, Stalin was educated in a Russian Orthodox seminary. Expelled for reading banned material, he drifted into Marxist revolutionary circles. As a youthful revolutionary, Stalin worked in the… … Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich — (1879 1953) Born Joseph Dzhugashvili in Georgia, Russia, the future leader of the Soviet Union assumed the name Stalin, meaning “man of steel,” in 1913. By then, he had become a communist and member of the Bolshevik movement. He was jailed and … Historical Dictionary of the Roosevelt–Truman Era
Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich — (1879–1953) After consolidating his dictatorship over the Soviet Union in 1929, Stalin introduced the first of his Five Year Plans to turn the country from an agrarian into an industrialized state. Toward this objective, he introduced a policy … Historical dictionary of the Holocaust
Joseph Stalin — Stalin redirects here. For other uses, see Stalin (disambiguation). Joseph Stalin Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин Georgian: იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე სტალინი … Wikipedia
Stalin and His Hangmen — Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him by Donald Rayfield, and the imprinted with another subtitle: Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him , is a political biography of… … Wikipedia
Joseph — /joh zeuhf, seuhf/, n. 1. Jacob s eleventh son, the first of Jacob and his second wife, Rachel: sold into slavery by his brothers. Gen. 30:22 24; 37. 2. the husband of Mary who was the mother of Jesus. Matt. 1:16 25. 3. (Hinmaton yalaktit), c1840 … Universalium
