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Joseph Stalin
1878-12-18 · Gori, 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.
Known for
Capitalism: A Love Story
When the Wind Blows
The Corporation
World War II in Colour
How to Become a Tyrant
The Vietnam War
Apocalypse: The Second World War
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
The Untold History Of The United States
Capsule
Triumph Over Violence
The Bloody Hundredth
Orwell: 2+2=5
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
American Experience
The Soviet Story
Movie credits · 142
A State Film
Orwell: 2+2=5
L'Unità. Storia di un archivio
USSR (1917-1991)
Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings
Trouble in the Barbary
Walt Disney: Behind the Magic
Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge
The Bloody Hundredth
A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
Life of a Shock Force Worker
The Mistake that Killed Hitler
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
The Real Spies Among Friends
Donbas Diary. How I Was at War
A Compassionate Spy
Prelúdio
The Beating: Last Stand
Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR
Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party
Big Data, Big Brother
The Long Breakup
Аркадий Райкин. Королю дозволено всё
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
Money, Fascism, and Some Sort of Acid
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Laboratory Greece
I Invite You to My Execution
State Funeral
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Storm Front in Mayo
Korea: The Never-Ending War
The Hitler–Stalin Pact
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Stalin's James Bond
A Dying King: The Shah of Iran
The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
The Russian Revolution
TV credits · 29
Our Man with the Enemy
Churchill at War
Apocalypse: D-Day
História do Comunismo
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Three Wars
The Century of Icons
A History of Antisemitism
How to Become a Tyrant
The UnXplained
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
The Vietnam War
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
Leif GW Persson - Min klassresa
Apocalypse: Stalin
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
Mentiras verdaderas
Korea: The Forgotten War in Colour
Apocalypse: The Second World War
World War II in Colour
Warlords
Days That Shook the World
WWII: The Lost Color Archives
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
War of the Century
Assassinations That Changed the World
American Experience
Korea: The Forgotten War
Crusade in Europe
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