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(June 2023) Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [g] [h] [i] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; [d] 18 December [ O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who was the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
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Portrait of Stalin displayed at a public event in Leipzig in...
- Vasily Stalin
Vasily Iosifovich Stalin Dzhugashvili (Georgian: ვასილი...
- Georgy Malenkov
Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov (8 January 1902 [O.S. 26...
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- Svetlana Alliluyeva
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (born Stalina; 28 February...
- Death and State Funeral of Joseph Stalin
Illness and death. Joseph Stalin's health had begun to...
- Kato Svanidze
Ekaterine "Kato" Svanidze (2 April 1885 – 22 November 1907)...
- General Secretary of The Central Committee of The Communist Party of The Soviet Union
The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the...
- Artyom Sergeyev
Artyom Fyodorovich Sergeyev (Russian: Артём Фёдорович...
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Stalinism is used to describe the period during which Joseph...
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Anti-utopian satire by George Orwell published in 1945 based on the events of Russia’s Bolshevik revolution and the betrayal of the cause by Joseph Stalin. The book concerns a group of barnyard animals who overthrow their human masters but eventually subverted by power-loving leaders, pigs.
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The Death of Stalin is a 2017 political satire black comedy film written and directed by Armando Iannucci and co-written by David Schneider and Ian Martin with Peter Fellows. Based on the French graphic novel La Mort de Staline (2010–2012), the film depicts the internal social and political power struggle among the members of Council of ...
- $24.6 million
- Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Kevin Loader
- $13 million
- Christopher Willis
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) (Name in Georgian იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი; Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин) was a Georgian-born Russian revolutionary and politician who was the 2nd leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
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Oct 19, 2017 · Richard Overy. Wed 18 Oct 2017 01.00 EDT. M y first memory of the outside world was watching my parents as they heard an announcement on the radio that Joseph Stalin was dead. The news was...
Oct 14, 2017 · Sat 14 Oct 2017 02.00 EDT. In Britain, early reviews of Armando Iannucci’s dark satire on the aftermath of Joseph Stalin’s death have been glowing. In Russia, nobody is laughing.
3 days ago · December 18 [December 6, Old Style], 1878, Gori, Georgia, Russian Empire. Died: March 5, 1953, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. (aged 74) Title / Office: prime minister (1941-1953), Soviet Union. Political Affiliation: Bolshevik. Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party. (Show more) Notable Family Members: