Joseph Stalin

Known for ActingBorn 1878-12-18Died 1953-03-05Gori, Caucasus, Russian Empire [now Georgia]

Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) was born in Gori, Tiflis province, Russian Empire - a Soviet political, statesman, military and party figure, a Russian revolutionary. Actual leader of the USSR. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1922-1953). Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), Generalissimo of the Soviet Union (1945). People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (since July 19, 1941), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and Chairman of the USSR State Defense Committee. He also held the following positions: From April 3, 1922 to February 10, 1934 - Secretary General, then - Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (from 1952 - CPSU), from December 19, 1930, after Vyacheslav Molotov took the post of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR instead of Alexey Rykov. In 1912, at the suggestion of V.I. Lenin was included in the Central Committee of the RSDLP. At the same time, Joseph Dzhugashvili finally chose the pseudonym "Stalin" for himself. During the October Revolution, the Second All-Russian Congress was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars. In 1922, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), he was elected a member of the Orgburo and the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), as well as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) (when Lenin was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR). In 1930, after the weakening and death of Lenin, Stalin finally emerged victorious from the internal party struggle, becoming the leader of the state. Stalin was the actual founder of the totalitarian dictatorship in the USSR. In 1928-1929 he was the initiator of the transition from the course of the New Economic Policy (NEP) to the course of industrialization, collectivization and building a planned economy, and intensified the policy of the cultural revolution in the USSR.Read more

Movies & web series

Trouble in the Barbary

USSR (1917-1991)

The Beating: Last Stand

Money, Fascism, and Some Sort of Acid

Laissez-faire

Leif GW Persson - Min klassresa

World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel

A Web of War

Crimean Conference

The Mask of Nippon

Stalin In Color

Stalin's Wife

Letters from Karelia

:03 from Gold

Executions 2

Marshal Zhukov

The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill

Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

Apocalypse: The Second World War

A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History

Apocalypse: D-Day

The Vietnam War

Our Cinema

The Fight For Peace

The Hitler–Stalin Pact

The Untold History Of The United States

Life of a Shock Force Worker

The Real Spies Among Friends

Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II

Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour

Laboratory Greece

Staline–Trotski, le Tsar et le Prophète

The Battle of France

Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

Stalin's Last Plot

Pétain, such a popular hero

Iran: The Hundred Year War

Hitler & Stalin: Roots of Evil

Korea: The Never-Ending War

WWII: The Lost Color Archives

War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin

Churchill at War

1945: The Savage Peace

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States

A Grin Without a Cat