Stalin's second government was formally constituted on March 19, 1946, with Joseph Stalin at the helm as the head of government and Chairman of the Council...

Stalin's first government was created on 7 May 1941 and was dissolved on 15 March 1946, with the creation of Stalin's second government. It was the government...

Stalin's body was embalmed and interred in Lenin's Mausoleum until 1961, when it was moved to the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. The members of Stalin's inner...

features due to Stalin's habit of ruling through "the strict personal loyalty of his lieutenants". Stalin was elected to the government chairmanship on...

although Kotkin suggested that Stalin's friendship with Lenin was "the single most important relationship in Stalin's life". Stalin viewed nations as contingent...

Stalin announced that the state law ministry will review the legal cases filed by the previous government. In September 2021, Stalin's government withdrew...

1950s and 1960s, which caused the influence of Stalin's ideology to begin to wane in the USSR. Stalin's regime forcibly purged society of what it saw as...

who was a leading figure in the government of the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1950s, as one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies. Molotov served as...

Joseph Stalin's cult of personality became a prominent feature of Soviet popular culture. Historian Archie Brown sets the celebration of Stalin's 50th birthday...

Alliluyeva's second marriage was arranged for her to Yuri Zhdanov, the son of Stalin's right-hand man Andrei Zhdanov and himself one of Stalin's close associates...

The Russian Provisional Government was a provisional government of the Russian Empire and Russian Republic, announced two days before and established...

Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. The Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR (Russian: Совет народных комиссаров РСФСР) was the governmental cabinet...

mass-mobilization of the Communist Party served as Stalin's major tools in molding Soviet society. Stalin's methods in achieving his goals, which included...

under the personal orders of Stalin. By 1934, several of Stalin's rivals, such as Trotsky, began calling for Stalin's removal and attempted to break...

did not seize the opportunity to demand Stalin's removal. According to Stalin's secretary, Boris Bazhanov, Stalin was jubilant over Lenin's death while...

March] 1907 – 14 April 1943) was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his...

his policies were fuelled by Stalin's struggle against Leon Trotsky. After Stalin's death, Khrushchev claimed that Stalin encouraged him to incite anti-Semitism...

Although this passage was quoted in Stalin's book The October Revolution (1934), it was expunged from Stalin's Works (1949). All practical work in connection...

married in February or March 1919. Stalin was a 40-year-old widower and father of one son (Yakov), born in 1907 to Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who...

which brought to an end the Second Polish Republic. Despite the occupation of Poland by hostile powers, the government-in-exile exerted considerable...

In Soviet historiography, Stalin's ten blows (Russian: Десять сталинских ударов, romanized: Desyat' stalinskikh udarov) were the ten successful strategic...

Neo-Stalinism is the promotion of positive views of Joseph Stalin's role in history, the partial re-establishing of Stalin's policies on certain or all...

The early life of Joseph Stalin covers the period from Stalin's birth, on 18 December 1878 (6 December according to the Old Style), until the October Revolution...

personality between Stalin's troika and Trotsky over which Marxist policy to pursue, either Trotsky's policy of permanent revolution or Stalin's policy of socialism...

The Second Government of Molotov was the cabinet of the Soviet Union established on March 18, 1931, with Vyacheslav Molotov as the head of government, serving...

was based on three assumptions: Stalin's offer was meant seriously. The Western powers intended to sound out Stalin's offer. Adenauer attempted to stop...

Stalin's chief bodyguard, Nikolai Vlasik, entered a limousine operated by the NKVD to travel to Red Square. The limousine arrived close to Stalin's office...

commander of an army in Ukraine, Stalin's actions in the war were later criticized, including by Leon Trotsky. Stalin was born on December 18, 1878 Gori...

a centralized autocratic one-party state under Joseph Stalin. Identifying a form of government is also difficult because many political systems originate...

function of the "Stalin myth" was to legitimise not Soviet rule itself but Stalin's leadership within the Communist Party. Stalin's personality cult existed...