Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. ^[1]

Abkhazia

Abkhazia, officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

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Abkhazians

The Abkhazians or Abkhazes are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group, mainly living in Abkhazia, a disputed region on the northeastern coast of the Black Sea.

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Adjarians

The Adjarians (tr), also known as Muslim Georgians, are an ethnographic group of Georgians indigenous to Adjara in south-western Georgia.

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Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler are time Person of the Year and world War II political leaders.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. Joseph Stalin and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn are people of the Cold War and Russian exiles.

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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Алексей Николаевич Толстой; – 23 February 1945) was a Russian writer whose works span across many genres, but mainly belonged to science fiction and historical fiction.

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Alexander Davydov (soldier)

Alexander Yakovlevich Davydov (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Давыдов; Kureika, November 6th 1917 – 1987) was a Soviet Red Army major and, allegedly, the illegitimate third son of Joseph Stalin.

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Alexander Kolchak

Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Колча́к; – 7 February 1920) was a Russian admiral, military leader and polar explorer who held the title of Supreme Ruler of Russia from 1918 to 1920 during the Russian Civil War, though his actual control over Russian territory was limited. Joseph Stalin and Alexander Kolchak are people of the Russian Civil War.

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.

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Alexander Svanidze

Alexander Semyonovich "Alyosha" Svanidze (ალექსანდრე სვანიძე; Александр Семёнович Сванидзе) (1886 – 20 August 1941) was a Georgian Old Bolshevik, politician and historian. Joseph Stalin and Alexander Svanidze are atheists from Georgia (country), old Bolsheviks, Revolutionaries from Georgia (country) and Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members.

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Alexei Rykov

Alexei Ivanovich Rykov (25 February 188115 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician and statesman, most prominent as premier of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1929 and 1924 to 1930 respectively. Joseph Stalin and Alexei Rykov are heads of government of the Soviet Union, members of the Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members, Russian communists and Signatories of the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Amnesty of 1953

The Amnesty of 1953 was the largest amnesty in the history of the Soviet Union (and in the history of Russia) in terms of the number of the released persons.

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Anastas Mikoyan

Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (Анастас Иванович Микоян; Anastas Hovhannesi Mikoyan; – 21 October 1978) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin and Anastas Mikoyan are 20th-century atheists, great Purge perpetrators, Heroes of Socialist Labour, members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, members of the Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, old Bolsheviks, people from Tiflis Governorate, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members and Russian revolutionaries.

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Anatoly Rybakov

Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov (Анато́лий Нау́мович Рыбако́в; – 23 December 1998) was a Soviet and Russian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist Children of the Arbat trilogy, the novel Heavy Sand, and many popular children books including Adventures of Krosh, Dirk and Bronze Bird.

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Andrei Zhdanov

Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov (a; – 31 August 1948) was a Soviet politician. Joseph Stalin and Andrei Zhdanov are anti-revisionists, Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, great Purge perpetrators, members of the Central Committee of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks and Stalinism.

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Anna Akhmatova

Anna Andreyevna Gorenkoa; Ánna Andríyivna Horénko,.

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Anschluss

The Anschluss (or Anschluß), also known as the Anschluß Österreichs (Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938.

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Anti-communism

Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals.

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Anti-fascism

Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals.

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Antisemitism in the Soviet Union

The February Revolution in Russia officially ended a centuries-old regime of antisemitism in the Russian Empire, legally abolishing the Pale of Settlement.

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Appendicitis

Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix.

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Artyom Sergeyev

Artyom Fyodorovich Sergeyev (Артём Фёдорович Сергеев; 5 March 1921 – 15 January 2008) was the adopted son of Joseph Stalin.

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Atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis is a pattern of the disease arteriosclerosis, characterized by development of abnormalities called lesions in walls of arteries.

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Autarky

Autarky is the characteristic of self-sufficiency, usually applied to societies, communities, states, and their economic systems.

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Autocracy

Autocracy is a system of government in which absolute power is held by the ruler, known as an autocrat.

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Autodidacticism

Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning, self-study and self-teaching) is the practice of education without the guidance of schoolmasters (i.e., teachers, professors, institutions).

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Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics

An Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR, avtonomnaya sovetskaya sotsialisticheskaya respublika) was a type of administrative unit in the Soviet Union (USSR), created for certain ethnic groups to be the titular nations of.

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Avel Yenukidze

Avel Safronovich Yenukidze (აბელ ენუქიძე, Abel Enukidze,; А́вель Сафро́нович Енуки́дзе; – 30 October 1937) was a prominent Georgian "Old Bolshevik" and, at one point, a member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (b) in Moscow. Joseph Stalin and Avel Yenukidze are members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks, Revolutionaries from Georgia (country) and Signatories of the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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Axis powers

The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.

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Balkan Federation

In late 19th and throughout the 20th century, the establishment of a Balkan Federation has been a recurrent suggestion of various political factions in the Balkans.

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Balkars

Balkars (Malqarlıla or Таулула, Tawlula, 'Mountaineers') are a Turkic ethnic group in the North Caucasus region, one of the titular populations of Kabardino-Balkaria.

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Baltic State Technical University

Baltic State Technical University "Voenmeh" D.F. Ustinov (Балтийский государственный технический университет "Военмех" им.; abbreviated BGTU) is a Russian technical university situated in Saint Petersburg.

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Battle of Berlin

The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II.

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Battle of Kursk

The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. The Battle of Kursk was the single largest battle in the history of warfare. It, along with the Battle of Stalingrad several months earlier, are the two most oft-cited turning points in the European theatre of the war.

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Battle of Moscow

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Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle of StalingradSchlacht von Stalingrad see; p (17 July 19422 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad in southern Russia.

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Battle of Warsaw (1920)

The Battle of Warsaw (Bitwa Warszawska; Варшавская битва, Varshavskaya bitva), also known as the Miracle on the Vistula (Cud nad Wisłą), was a series of battles that resulted in a decisive Polish victory in 1920 during the Polish–Soviet War.

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Berlin Blockade

The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.

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Besarion Jughashvili

Besarion Ivanes dze Jughashvili (– 25 August 1909) was the father of Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin and Besarion Jughashvili are people from Tiflis Governorate.

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Birobidzhan

Birobidzhan (p; ביראָבידזשאַן, Birobidzhan) is a town and the administrative centre of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway, near the China–Russia border.

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Blitzkrieg

Blitzkrieg (from Blitz "lightning" + Krieg "war") or Bewegungskrieg is a word used to describe a combined arms surprise attack using a rapid, overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations; together with artillery, air assault, and close air support; with intent to break through the opponent's lines of defense, dislocate the defenders, unbalance the enemies by making it difficult to respond to the continuously changing front, and defeat them in a decisive Vernichtungsschlacht: a battle of annihilation.

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Blockade of Germany (1939–1945)

The Blockade of Germany (1939–1945), also known as the Economic War, involved operations carried out during World War II by the British Empire and by France in order to restrict the supplies of minerals, fuel, metals, food and textiles needed by Nazi Germany – and later by Fascist Italy – in order to sustain their war efforts.

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903. Joseph Stalin and Bolsheviks are Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members.

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Bolshoi Theatre

The Bolshoi Theatre (t) is a historic opera house in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové.

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Boris Bazhanov

Boris Georgiyevich Bazhanov (Бори́с Гео́ргиевич Бажа́нов; 9 August 1900 – 30 December 1982) was a secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union who published memoirs about Stalin and his secrets. Joseph Stalin and Boris Bazhanov are Comintern people and people of the Russian Civil War.

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Boris Yeltsin

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Борис Николаевич Ельцин,; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999.

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Bourgeois nationalism

In Marxist theory, bourgeois nationalism is the ideology of the ruling capitalist class which aims to overcome class antagonism between proletariat and bourgeoisie by appealing to national unity.

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Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Buddhism in Russia

Historically, Buddhism was incorporated into Siberia in the early 17th century.

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Bureaucratic collectivism

Bureaucratic collectivism is a theory of class society.

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Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR or Byelorussian SSR; Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка; Белорусская Советская Социалистическая Республика), also known as Byelorussia, was a republic of the Soviet Union (USSR).

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Caesarism

In political science, the term Caesarism identifies and describes an authoritarian and autocratic ideology inspired by Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome, from 49 BC to 44 BC.

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Cannon fodder

Cannon fodder is an informal, derogatory term for combatants who are regarded or treated by government or military command as expendable in the face of enemy fire.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Case Blue

Case Blue (German: Fall Blau) was the Wehrmacht plan for the 1942 strategic summer offensive in southern Russia between 28 June and 24 November 1942, during World War II.

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Case of the Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization

The Case of the Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization, also known as the Military Case or the Tukhachevsky Case, was a 1937 secret trial of the high command of the Red Army, a part of the Great Purge.

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Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (p) is a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow, Russia, on the northern bank of the Moskva River, a few hundred metres southwest of the Kremlin.

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Catherine the Great

Catherine II (born Princess Sophie Augusta Frederica von Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 172917 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796.

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Central and Eastern Europe

Central and Eastern Europe is a geopolitical term encompassing the countries in Northeast Europe (primarily the Baltics), Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Europe (primarily the Balkans), usually meaning former communist states from the Eastern Bloc and Warsaw Pact in Europe, as well as from former Yugoslavia.

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Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) sat from 10 February 1934 until the convening of the 18th Congress on 10 March 1939.

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Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was in session from 1952 until 1956.

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Central Committee of the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

This Central Committee of the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was in session from 19 May 1907 until 17 January 1912.

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Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union

The Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union was the head of government of the Soviet Union during the existence of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1946.

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Chancellor of Germany

The chancellor of Germany, officially the federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the head of the federal government of Germany, and the commander-in-chief of the German Armed Forces during wartime.

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Chechens

The Chechens (Нохчий,, Old Chechen: Нахчой, Naxçoy), historically also known as Kisti and Durdzuks, are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group of the Nakh peoples native to the North Caucasus.

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Cheka

The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (p), abbreviated as VChK (p), and commonly known as the Cheka (p), was the first Soviet secret police organization. Joseph Stalin and Cheka are Politicide perpetrators.

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Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with armed conflict continuing intermittently from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949, resulting in a communist victory and control of mainland China.

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Chinese Communist Party

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Circus (1936 film)

Circus (Tsirk) is a 1936 Soviet melodramatic comedy musical film.

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Class conflict

In political science, the term class conflict, or class struggle, refers to the political tension and economic antagonism that exist among the social classes of society, because of socioeconomic competition for resources among the social classes, between the rich and the poor.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Cold War History (journal)

Cold War History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of the Cold War.

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Collective leadership in the Soviet Union

Collective leadership (коллективное руководство), or of leadership (коллективность руководства), became - alongside doctrine such as democratic centralism - official dogma for governance in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and other socialist states espousing communism.

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Collective responsibility

Collective responsibility or collective guilt, is the responsibility of organizations, groups and societies.

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Collectivization in the Soviet Union

The Soviet Union introduced forced collectivization (Коллективизация) of its agricultural sector between 1928 and 1940 during the ascension of Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin and collectivization in the Soviet Union are Holodomor.

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Cominform

The Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties, commonly known as Cominform, was a co-ordination body of Marxist-Leninist communist parties in Europe during the early Cold War that was formed in part as a replacement of the Communist International.

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Commune of the Working People of Estonia

The Estonian Workers' Commune (Eesti Töörahva Kommuun, initially Eesti Töörahwa Kommuuna; Эстляндская трудовая коммуна, ЭТК or ETK, also Estonian Labour Commune and Commune of the Working People of Estonia) was a government claiming the Bolshevik-occupied parts of Republic of Estonia as its territories during the Estonian War of Independence and the Russian Civil War.

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Communist International

The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was an international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism, and which was led and controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin and communist International are Stalinism.

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Communist Party of Georgia (Soviet Union)

The Communist Party of Georgia (tr; Коммунистическая партия Грузии) was the founding and ruling political party of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

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Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet Communist Party (SCP), was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union.

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Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union)

The Communist Party of Ukraine (translit, КПУ, KPU; translit) was the founding and ruling political party of the Ukrainian SSR operated as a republican branch (union republics) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).

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Continent

A continent is any of several large geographical regions.

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Cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all human beings are members of a single community.

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Council of People's Commissars

The Council of People's Commissars (CPC) (Sovet narodnykh kommissarov (SNK)), commonly known as the Sovnarkom (Совнарком), were the highest executive authorities of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), the Soviet Union (USSR), and the Soviet republics from 1917 to 1946.

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Crimean Tatars

Crimean Tatars or Crimeans are a Turkic ethnic group and nation native to Crimea.

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Crop rotation

Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area across a sequence of growing seasons.

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Crowd collapses and crushes

Crowd collapses and crowd crushes are catastrophic incidents that can occur when a body of people becomes dangerously overcrowded.

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Cubism

Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.

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Cue sports

Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.

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Cult of personality

A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader,Mudde, Cas and Kaltwasser, Cristóbal Rovira (2017) Populism: A Very Short Introduction.

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Cultural Revolution in the Soviet Union

The cultural revolution was a set of activities carried out in Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union, aimed at a radical restructuring of the cultural and ideological life of society.

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Culture of the Soviet Union

The culture of the Soviet Union passed through several stages during the country's 69-year existence.

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Dacha

A dacha (Belarusian, Ukrainian and a) is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of post-Soviet countries, including Russia.

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De-Stalinization

De-Stalinization (translit) comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by ascension of Nikita Khrushchev to power, and his 1956 secret speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences", which denounced Stalin's cult of personality and the Stalinist political system. Joseph Stalin and de-Stalinization are Stalinism.

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Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin, second leader of the Soviet Union, died on 5 March 1953 at his Kuntsevo Dacha after suffering a stroke, at age 74. Joseph Stalin and Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin are Unsolved deaths in Russia.

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Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin

On Monday, 21 January 1924, at 18:50 EET, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the October Revolution and the first leader and founder of the Soviet Union, died in Gorki aged 53 after falling into a coma.

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Death of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe.

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Decembrist revolt

The Decembrist Revolt (translation) was a failed coup d'état led by liberal military and political dissidents against the Russian Empire.

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Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia

The Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia (translit) was a document promulgated by the Bolshevik government of Russia on 15 November 1917 (2 November in Julian calendar) and signed by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.

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Democratic Republic of Georgia

The Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG; tr) was the first modern establishment of a republic of Georgia, which existed from May 1918 to February 1921.

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Despotism

In political science, despotism (despotismós) is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power.

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Dictator

A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power.

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Dictatorship of the proletariat

In Marxist philosophy, the dictatorship of the proletariat is a condition in which the proletariat, or working class, holds control over state power.

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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

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Division of Korea

The division of Korea began on August 15, 1945 when the official announcement of the surrender of Japan was released, thus ending the Pacific Theater of World War II.

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Dizzy with Success

"Dizzy with Success: Concerning Questions of the Collective-Farm Movement" (Golovokruzhéniye ot uspékhov.) is an article by Joseph Stalin that was published in Pravda on March 2, 1930.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Joseph Stalin and Dmitri Shostakovich are Heroes of Socialist Labour.

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Dmitri Volkogonov

Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov (Дми́трий Анто́нович Волкого́нов; 22 March 1928 – 6 December 1995) was a Soviet and Russian historian and colonel general who was head of the Soviet military's psychological warfare department.

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Dmitry Manuilsky

Dmitriy Zakharovich Manuilsky or Dmytro Zakharovych Manuilsky (Дми́трий Заха́рович Мануи́льский; Дмитро Захарович Мануїльський; 3 October 1883 – 22 February 1959) was an important Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and academic who was Secretary of the Executive Committee of Comintern, the Communist International, from December 1926 to its dissolution in May 1943. Joseph Stalin and Dmitry Manuilsky are members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks and Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members.

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Doctors' plot

The "doctors' plot" (delo vrachey) was a Soviet state-sponsored antisemitic campaign and conspiracy theory that alleged a cabal of prominent medical specialists, predominantly of Jewish ethnicity, intended to murder leading government and party officials. Joseph Stalin and Doctors' plot are anti-Zionism in the Soviet Union.

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Donetsk

Donetsk (Донецьк; Донецк), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic.

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East Germany

East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.

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Eastern Bloc

The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991). Joseph Stalin and Eastern Bloc are Marxism–Leninism.

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Eastern Front (World War I)

The Eastern Front or Eastern Theater of World War I (Ostfront; Frontul de răsărit; Vostochny front) was a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between Russia and Romania on one side and Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and Germany on the other.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR

Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (Ekonomicheskiye problemy sotsializma v SSSR) is a work of political economy written by Joseph Stalin in 1951.

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Elbe

The Elbe (Labe; Ilv or Elv; Upper and Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe.

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Electoral fraud

Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud, or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both.

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Enemy of the people

The terms enemy of the people and enemy of the nation are designations for the political opponents and for the social-class opponents of the power group within a larger social unit, who, thus identified, can be subjected to political repression.

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Ethnic cleansing

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous.

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European interwar dictatorships

This is a list of dictatorial regimes operational in European states in the interwar period, the period between World War I and World War II.

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European theatre of World War II

The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat during World War II.

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Excess mortality in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin

Estimates of the number of deaths attributable to the Soviet revolutionary and dictator Joseph Stalin vary widely.

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Falsifiers of History

Falsifiers of History was a book published by the Soviet Information Bureau, edited and partially re-written by Joseph Stalin, in response to documents made public in January 1948 regarding German–Soviet relations before and after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

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Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

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February Revolution

The February Revolution (Февральская революция), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.

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Federalism

Federalism is a mode of government that combines a general government (the central or federal government) with regional governments (provincial, state, cantonal, territorial, or other sub-unit governments) in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two.

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Felix Dzerzhinsky

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский; Feliks Edmundowicz Dzierżyński; – 20 July 1926), nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. Joseph Stalin and Felix Dzerzhinsky are Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, members of the Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks, people of the Russian Civil War, people of the Russian Revolution, Perpetrators of the Red Terror (Russia) and Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members.

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Fifth column

A fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation.

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First five-year plan

The first five-year plan (I пятилетний план, первая пятилетка) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals, implemented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, based on his policy of socialism in one country.

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Five-year plans of the Soviet Union

The five-year plans for the development of the national economy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Пятилетние планы развития народного хозяйства СССР, Pyatiletniye plany razvitiya narodnogo khozyaystva SSSR) consisted of a series of nationwide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union, beginning in the late 1920s.

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Formalism (art)

In art history, formalism is the study of art by analyzing and comparing form and style.

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Foundations of Leninism

Foundations of Leninism was a 1924 collection made by Joseph Stalin that consisted of nine lectures he delivered at Sverdlov University that year. Joseph Stalin and Foundations of Leninism are Stalinism.

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Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance

The Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance was a bilateral treaty between France and the Soviet Union with the aim of enveloping Nazi Germany in 1935 to reduce the threat from Central Europe.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt are time Person of the Year and world War II political leaders.

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Futurism

Futurism (Futurismo) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century.

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Galina Dzhugashvili

Galina Yakovlevna Dzhugashvili (Галина Яковлевна Джугашвили; 19 February 1938 – 27 August 2007) was a Russian translator of French.

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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Joseph Stalin and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union are heads of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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Generalissimus of the Soviet Union

Generalissimus of the Soviet Union (Generalissimus Sovetskogo Soyuza) was the highest military rank in the Soviet Union, created after World War II for Joseph Stalin and awarded to him on 27 June 1945.

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Geneva Conventions

language.

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Genrikh Yagoda

Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (Genrikh Grigor'yevich Yagoda, born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda; 7 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Joseph Stalin and Genrikh Yagoda are members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks and Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members.

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Geoffrey Roberts

Geoffrey Roberts (born 1952) is a British historian of World War II working at University College Cork.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.

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Georgian affair

The Georgian affair of 1922 (Грузинское дело) was a political conflict within the Soviet leadership about the way in which social and political transformation was to be achieved in the Georgian SSR.

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Georgian nationalism

Georgian nationalism (tr) is a nationalist ideology promoting Georgian national identity, the Georgian language and culture.

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Georgy Malenkov

Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov (8 January 1902 – 14 January 1988) was a Soviet politician who briefly succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union after his death in March 1953. Joseph Stalin and Georgy Malenkov are heads of government of the Soviet Union, Heroes of Socialist Labour, members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, members of the Orgburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, members of the Secretariat of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Russian communists.

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Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (a; 189618 June 1974) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin and Georgy Zhukov are Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Heroes of the Soviet Union, Marshals of the Soviet Union, members of the Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, ministers of defence of the Soviet Union and Recipients of the Order of Victory.

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German Instrument of Surrender

The German Instrument of Surrender was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining German armed forces to the Allies, which ended World War II in Europe, with the surrender taking effect at 23:01 CET on the same day.

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German–Soviet Axis talks

German–Soviet Axis talks occurred in October and November 1940, nominally concerning the Soviet Union's potential adherent as a fourth Axis power during World War II among other potential agreements.

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German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty

The German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty was a second supplementary protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 23 August 1939.

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German–Soviet economic relations (1934–1941)

After the Nazis rose to power in Germany in 1933, relations between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union began to deteriorate rapidly.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Golda Meir

Golda Meir (3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was an Israeli politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. Joseph Stalin and Golda Meir are 20th-century atheists.

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Gori, Georgia

Gori (გორი) is a city in eastern Georgia, which serves as the regional capital of Shida Kartli and is located at the confluence of two rivers, the Mtkvari and the Liakhvi.

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Gorki Leninskiye

Gorki Leninskiye (Го́рки Ле́нинские) is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Leninsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located south of Moscow city limits and the Moscow Ring Road.

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Government of the Soviet Union

The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was the executive and administrative organ of the highest body of state authority, the All-Union Supreme Soviet.

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Great Purge

The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (translit), also known as the Year of '37 (label) and the Yezhovshchina (label), was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin's campaign to consolidate power over the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Soviet state. Joseph Stalin and Great Purge are Stalinism.

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Greek Civil War

The Greek Civil War (translit) took place from 1946 to 1949.

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Grigory Sokolnikov

Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov (born Hirsch Brilliant or Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant; 15 August 1888 – 21 May 1939) was a Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician. Joseph Stalin and Grigory Sokolnikov are members of the Bureau of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks and Perpetrators of the Red Terror (Russia).

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Gulag

The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Joseph Stalin and H. G. Wells are 20th-century atheists.

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Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. Joseph Stalin and Harry S. Truman are people of the Cold War, time Person of the Year and world War II political leaders.

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Head of government

In the executive branch, the head of government is the highest or the second-highest official of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, a group of ministers or secretaries who lead executive departments.

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Hegemony

Hegemony is the political, economic, and military predominance of one state over other states, either regional or global.

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Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.

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Hirudo medicinalis

Hirudo medicinalis, or the European medicinal leech, is one of several species of leeches used as medicinal leeches.

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History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)

The History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks): Short Course (История Всесоюзной коммунистической партии (большевиков). Краткий курс.), translated to English under the title History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course, is a textbook on the history of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (AUCP (B)) (translit), first published in 1938.

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History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953)

The history of the Soviet Union between 1927 and 1953 covers the period in Soviet history from the establishment of Stalinism through victory in the Second World War and down to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.

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Human history

Human history is the development of humankind from prehistory to the present.

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Human nature

Human nature comprises the fundamental dispositions and characteristics—including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—that humans are said to have naturally.

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Hungarian Working People's Party

The Hungarian Working People's Party (abbr. MDP) was the ruling communist party of Hungary from 1948 to 1956.

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Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Before the perestroika Soviet era reforms of Gorbachev that promoted a more liberal form of socialism, the formal ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was Marxism–Leninism, a form of socialism consisting of a centralised command economy with a vanguardist one-party state that aimed to realize the dictatorship of the proletariat.

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Imperialism

Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism).

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Independence of Finland

Finland declared its full independence on 6 December 1917.

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Industrial Party Trial

The Industrial Party Trial (November 25 – December 7, 1930) (Процесс Промпартии, Trial of the Prompartiya) was a show trial in which several Soviet scientists and economists were accused and convicted of plotting a coup against the government of the Soviet Union.

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Industrialization in the Soviet Union

Industrialization in the Soviet Union was a process of accelerated building-up of the industrial potential of the Soviet Union to reduce the economy's lag behind the developed capitalist states, which was carried out from May 1929 to June 1941.

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Ingush people

Ingush (translit, pronounced), historically known as Durdzuks, Gligvi and Kists, are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Republic of Ingushetia in central Caucasus, but also inhabitanting Prigorodny District and town of Vladikavkaz of modern day North-Ossetia.

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Inner-composition of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)

The inner-composition of the 6th Congress was elected by the sixth composition of the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks).

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International Brigades

The International Brigades (Brigadas Internacionales) were soldiers set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.

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Intracerebral hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as hemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain (i.e. the parenchyma), into its ventricles, or into both.

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Invasion of Poland

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.

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Iran crisis of 1946

The Iran crisis of 1946, also known as the Azerbaijan Crisis in the Iranian sources, was one of the first crises of the Cold War, sparked by the refusal of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union to relinquish occupied Iranian territory despite repeated assurances.

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Iron Curtain

During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.

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Islam in the Soviet Union

After it was established on most of the territory of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union remained the world's largest country until it collapsed in 1991.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Israel–United States relations

The United States of America was the first country to recognize the nascent State of Israel.

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Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Иван IV Васильевич; 25 August 1530 –), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.

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Józef Piłsudski

Józef Klemens Piłsudski (5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920).

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Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, abbreviated as JAC, was an organization that was created in the Soviet Union during World War II to influence international public opinion and organize political and material support for the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany, particularly from the West.

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Jewish Autonomous Oblast

The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO; Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast' (YeAO),; ייִדישע אװטאָנאָמע געגנט|Yidishe avtonome gegnt) is a federal subject of Russia in the far east of the country, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast in Russia and Heilongjiang province in China.

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Joachim von Ribbentrop

Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. Joseph Stalin and Joachim von Ribbentrop are world War II political leaders.

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Joint State Political Directorate

The Joint State Political Directorate (p), abbreviated as OGPU (p), was the secret police of the Soviet Union from November 1923 to July 1934, succeeding the State Political Directorate (GPU).

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Jonathan Brent

Jonathan Brent (born 1949) is an American academic, author, historian and publisher.

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Joseph Stalin's cult of personality

Joseph Stalin's cult of personality became a prominent feature of Soviet popular culture. Joseph Stalin and Joseph Stalin's cult of personality are Stalinism.

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Joseph Stalin's rise to power

Joseph Stalin started his career as a robber, gangster as well as an influential member and eventually the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

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Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz (Јосип Броз,; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (Тито), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980. Joseph Stalin and Josip Broz Tito are old Bolsheviks, people of the Cold War, people of the Russian Civil War, Recipients of the Order of Victory and world War II political leaders.

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Kalmyks

Kalmyks (Kalmyk: Хальмгуд,; Halimaguud; translit; archaically anglicised as Calmucks) are the only Mongolic-speaking people living in Europe, residing in the easternmost part of the European Plain.

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Karachays

The Karachays or Karachai (Qaraçaylıla or таулула, tawlula, 'Mountaineers') are an indigenous North Caucasian-Turkic ethnic group native to the North Caucasus.

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Kato Svanidze

Ekaterine "Kato" Svanidze (2 April 1885 – 22 November 1907) was the first wife of Joseph Stalin and the mother of his eldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili.

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Katyn massacre

The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 defenceless Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD (the Soviet secret police), at Stalin's order in April and May 1940.

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Königsberg

Königsberg (Królewiec, Karaliaučius, Kyonigsberg) is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia.

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Keke Geladze

Ekaterine "Keke" Giorgis asuli Geladze (1856/1858 – 4 June 1937) was the mother of Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin and Keke Geladze are people from Tiflis Governorate.

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Kharkiv

Kharkiv (Харків), also known as Kharkov (Харькoв), is the second-largest city in Ukraine.

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Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KhPG) is one of the oldest and most active Ukrainian human rights organizations.

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Kholodnaya Rechka

Kholodnaya Rechka (ხოლოდნაია რეჩკა; Холодная Речка) is a village in the Gagra District of Abkhazia, Georgia.

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Khrushchev Thaw

The Khrushchev Thaw (p or simply ottepel)William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, London: Free Press, 2004 is the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s when repression and censorship in the Soviet Union were relaxed due to Nikita Khrushchev's policies of de-Stalinization and peaceful coexistence with other nations.

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Kim Il Sung

Kim Il Sung (born Kim Sung Ju; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he led as Supreme Leader from the country's establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. Afterwards, he was succeeded by his son Kim Jong Il and was declared Eternal President. Joseph Stalin and Kim Il Sung are anti-revisionists, Collars of the Order of the White Lion, Generalissimos, people of the Cold War, Politicide perpetrators and Stalinism.

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Kliment Voroshilov

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (Климент Ефремович Ворошилов; Klyment Okhrimovych Voroshylov), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (Клим Ворошилов; 4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin-era. Joseph Stalin and Kliment Voroshilov are anti-revisionists, Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, first convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, great Purge perpetrators, Heroes of Socialist Labour, Heroes of the Soviet Union, Marshals of the Soviet Union, members of the Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, members of the Orgburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, ministers of defence of the Soviet Union, old Bolsheviks, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members and Soviet people of World War II.

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Kolkhoz

A kolkhoz (p) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union.

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Komsomol

The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, usually known as Komsomol, was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union.

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Konstantin Kuzakov

Konstantin Stepanovich Kuzakov (Константин Степанович Кузаков; 4 September 1911 – 12 September 1996) was a Soviet journalist and politician and one of the organizers of Soviet television, radio and cinema.

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Konstantin Rokossovsky

Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (Russian: Константин Константинович (Ксаверьевич) Рокоссовский; Konstanty Rokossowski; 21 December 1896 – 3 August 1968) was a Soviet and Polish officer who became a Marshal of the Soviet Union, a Marshal of Poland, and served as Poland's Defence Minister from 1949 until his removal in 1956 during the Polish October. Joseph Stalin and Konstantin Rokossovsky are Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Heroes of the Soviet Union, Marshals of the Soviet Union and Recipients of the Order of Victory.

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Korean People's Army

The Korean People's Army (KPA) encompasses the combined military forces of North Korea and the armed wing of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).

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Korean War

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.

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Kremlin

The Moscow Kremlin (Moskovskiy Kreml'), or simply the Kremlin, is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia.

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Kremlin Wall Necropolis

The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is the former national cemetery of the Soviet Union, located in Red Square in Moscow beside the Kremlin Wall.

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Kulak

Kulak (a; plural: кулаки́, kulakí, 'fist' or 'tight-fisted'), also kurkul or golchomag (plural), was the term which was used to describe peasants who owned over of land towards the end of the Russian Empire.

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Kuntsevo Dacha

The Kuntsevo Dacha (Kuntsevskaya dacha.) was Joseph Stalin's personal residence between Moscow and Davydkovo (on the road leading to the former town of Kuntsevo) (then in Moscow Oblast, now part of Moscow's Fili district), where he lived for the last two decades of his life and died on 5 March 1953.

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Kuril Islands

The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (p; Japanese: or) are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East.

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Kwantung Army

The Kwantung Army (Japanese: 関東軍, Kantō-gun) was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1919 to 1945.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Labor camp

A labor camp (or labour camp, see spelling differences) or work camp is a detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment.

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Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic

The Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic (Latvijas Sociālistiskā Padomju Republika, LSPR) was a short-lived socialist republic formed during the Latvian War of Independence.

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Lavrentiy Beria

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (p; ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია, Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria; – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) from 1938 to 1946, during the country's involvement in the Second World War. Joseph Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria are atheists from Georgia (country), communists from Georgia (country), former Georgian Orthodox Christians, Genocide perpetrators, Heroes of Socialist Labour, Marshals of the Soviet Union, members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, members of the Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, old Bolsheviks, people of World War II from Georgia (country) and Soviet Georgian generals.

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Law of war

The law of war is a component of international law that regulates the conditions for initiating war (jus ad bellum) and the conduct of hostilities (jus in bello).

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Lazar Kaganovich

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович; – 25 July 1991) was a Soviet politician and one of Joseph Stalin's closest associates. Joseph Stalin and Lazar Kaganovich are anti-revisionists, first convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Genocide perpetrators, great Purge perpetrators, Heroes of Socialist Labour, Holodomor, members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, members of the Orgburo of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, members of the Secretariat of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members, Soviet people of World War II and Stalinism.

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League of Militant Atheists

The League of Militant Atheists, also Society of the Godless or Union of the Godless, was an atheistic and antireligious organization of workers and intelligentsia that developed in Soviet Russia under influence of the ideological and cultural views and policies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1947. Joseph Stalin and League of Militant Atheists are anti-religious campaign in the Soviet Union and Russian atheism activists.

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League of Nations

The League of Nations (LN or LoN; Société des Nations, SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

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Left Opposition

The Left Opposition was a faction within the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) from 1923 to 1927 headed de facto by Leon Trotsky.

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Left Socialist-Revolutionaries

The Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries-Internationalists (translit) was a revolutionary socialist political party formed during the Russian Revolution.

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Lenin's Mausoleum

Lenin's Mausoleum (from 1953 to 1961 Lenin's and Stalin's Mausoleum) (p), also known as Lenin's Tomb, is a mausoleum located at Red Square in Moscow, Russia.

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Lenin's Testament

Lenin's Testament is a document dictated by Vladimir Lenin in late 1922 and early 1923.

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Leningrad affair

The Leningrad affair, or Leningrad case (Ленинградское дело, Leningradskoye delo), was a series of criminal cases fabricated in the late 1940s–early 1950s by Joseph Stalin in order to accuse a number of prominent Leningrad based authority figures and members of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of treason and intention to create an anti-Soviet, Russian nationalist, organization based in the city.

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Leninism

Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party as the political prelude to the establishment of communism.

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Leon Trotsky

Lev Davidovich Bronstein (– 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist. Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky are 20th-century atheists, Comintern people, members of the Bureau of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), ministers of defence of the Soviet Union, old Bolsheviks, people of the Polish–Soviet War, people of the Russian Civil War, people of the Russian Revolution, Perpetrators of the Red Terror (Russia), Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members, Russian communist writers, Russian communists, Russian exiles and Russian revolutionaries.

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Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982. Joseph Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev are Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, heads of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Heroes of Socialist Labour, Heroes of the Soviet Union, Marshals of the Soviet Union, members of the Secretariat of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, people of the Cold War, Recipients of the Order of Victory, Russian communists and Russification.

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Lev Kamenev

Lev Borisovich Kamenev (né Rozenfeld; – 25 August 1936) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. Joseph Stalin and Lev Kamenev are members of the Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 7th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), ministers of defence of the Soviet Union, old Bolsheviks and Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members.

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LGBT history in the Soviet Union

LGBT history in the Soviet Union covers the development, contributions and struggles of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the history of the Soviet Union, which existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Liberal democracy

Liberal democracy, western-style democracy, or substantive democracy is a form of government that combines the organization of a representative democracy with ideas of liberal political philosophy.

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List of awards and honours bestowed upon Joseph Stalin

This is a list of awards and honorary titles received by Joseph Stalin, a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953).

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List of leaders of the Soviet Union

During its 69-year history, the Soviet Union usually had a de facto leader who would not necessarily be head of state or even head of government but would lead while holding an office such as Communist Party General Secretary.

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List of places named after Joseph Stalin

During Joseph Stalin's rule (1922–1953), many places, mostly cities, in the Soviet Union and other communist countries were named or renamed in honour of him as part of the cult of personality surrounding him.

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List of statues of Joseph Stalin

This is a list of former and current known monuments dedicated to Joseph Stalin, many having been removed as a result of de-Stalinization.

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Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (1918–1919)

The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (LSSR) was a short-lived Soviet puppet state during the early Interwar period.

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is one of five permanent symphony orchestras based in London.

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II.

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Lviv

Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.

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Magnitogorsk

Magnitogorsk (p) is an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, on the eastern side of the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains by the Ural River.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong are 20th-century atheists, anti-revisionists, people of the Cold War and Politicide perpetrators.

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Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova

Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova (Мари́я Ильи́нична Улья́нова;, Simbirsk – 12 June 1937, Moscow) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, politician, and the younger sister of Vladimir Lenin and Anna Ulyanova. Joseph Stalin and Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova are Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis and Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members.

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Market economy

A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution to the consumers are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand.

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Marshal of the Soviet Union

Marshal of the Soviet Union (Marshal sovetskogo soyuza) was the second-highest military rank of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin and Marshal of the Soviet Union are Marshals of the Soviet Union.

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Marshall Plan

The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.

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Marxism and Problems of Linguistics

"Marxism and Problems of Linguistics" (Marksizm i voprosy yazykoznaniya) is an article written by Joseph Stalin, most of which was first published on 20 June 1950, in the newspaper Pravda (the "answers" attached at the end came later, in July and August), and was in the same year published as a pamphlet in large numbers.

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Marxism–Leninism

Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement in the world in the years following the October Revolution. Joseph Stalin and Marxism–Leninism are Stalinism.

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Marxist philosophy

Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory, or works written by Marxists.

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Mass murder

Mass murder is the violent crime of killing a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity.

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Maxim Gorky

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Алексей Максимович Пешков; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian and Soviet writer and socialism proponent. Joseph Stalin and Maxim Gorky are Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis and Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members.

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Maxim Litvinov

Maxim Maximovich Litvinov (born Meir Henoch Wallach-Finkelstein; 17 July 1876 – 31 December 1951) was a Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet statesman and diplomat who served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs from 1930 to 1939. Joseph Stalin and Maxim Litvinov are members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members and Unsolved deaths in Russia.

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Metro-Vickers Affair

The Metro-Vickers Affair was an international crisis precipitated by the arrest of six British subjects who were employees of Metropolitan-Vickers, and their public trial in 1933 by the authorities in the Soviet Union on charges of "wrecking" and espionage.

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Michael Ellman

Michael John Ellman (born 1942, United Kingdom) has been a professor of economics at the University of Amsterdam since 1978.

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Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (p; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian, later Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. Joseph Stalin and Mikhail Bulgakov are people of the Russian Civil War.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. Joseph Stalin and Mikhail Gorbachev are Collars of the Order of the White Lion, heads of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, people of the Cold War and time Person of the Year.

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Mikhail Kalinin

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (Михаи́л Ива́нович Кали́нин,; 3 June 1946) was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary. Joseph Stalin and Mikhail Kalinin are anti-revisionists, Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, great Purge perpetrators, Heroes of Socialist Labour, members of the Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 6th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members, Russian communists, Signatories of the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Soviet people of World War II, Stalinism and world War II political leaders.

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Mikhail Sholokhov

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (p; – 21 February 1984) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. Joseph Stalin and Mikhail Sholokhov are Heroes of Socialist Labour and people of the Russian Revolution.

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Mikhail Tomsky

Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky (Russian: Михаи́л Па́влович То́мский, born Mikhail Pavlovich Yefremovsometimes transliterated as Efremov; Михаи́л Па́влович Ефре́мов; 31 October 1880 – 22 August 1936) was a factory worker, trade unionist and Bolshevik leader and Soviet politician. Joseph Stalin and Mikhail Tomsky are members of the Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and old Bolsheviks.

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Mikhail Tukhachevsky

Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (p; – 12 June 1937), nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician. Joseph Stalin and Mikhail Tukhachevsky are Marshals of the Soviet Union and Perpetrators of the Red Terror (Russia).

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Mingrelian affair

The Mingrelian affair, or Mingrelian case (Мингрельское дело, mingrel’skoe delo; მეგრელთა საქმე, megrelt’a sak’me), was a series of criminal cases fabricated in 1951 and 1952 in order to accuse several members of the Georgian SSR Communist Party of Mingrelian extraction of secession and collaboration with the Western powers.

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Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)

The Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union (Министр обороны СССР) refers to the head of the Ministry of Defence who was responsible for defence of the socialist/communist Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 to 1922 and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1992. Joseph Stalin and Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) are ministers of defence of the Soviet Union.

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Miron Merzhanov

Miron Ivanovich Merzhanov, born Meran Merzhanyantz (Мирон Иванович Мержанов, Меран Оганесович Мержанянц, Մերուժանյանց Միհրան Հովհաննեսի, September 23, 1895 – December 1975), was a Soviet architect of Armenian descent, notable for being the de facto personal architect of Joseph Stalin in 1933–1941.

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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with a secret protocol that partitioned between them or managed the sovereignty of the states in Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Romania.

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Moscow Armistice

The Moscow Armistice was signed between Finland on one side and the Soviet Union and United Kingdom on the other side on 19 September 1944, ending the Continuation War.

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Moscow Metro

The Moscow Metro is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union., the Moscow Metro, excluding the Moscow Central Circle, the Moscow Central Diameters and the Moscow Monorail, had 294 stations and of route length, excluding light rail Monorail, making it the 10th-longest in the world and the longest outside East Asia.

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Moscow Peace Treaty

The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed by Finland and the Soviet Union on 12 March 1940, and the ratifications were exchanged on 21 March.

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Moscow trials

The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin and Moscow trials are Stalinism.

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Mullah

Mullah is an honorific title for Muslim clergy and mosque leaders.

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Nadezhda Alliluyeva

Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva (Надежда Сергеевна Аллилуева; – 9 November 1932) was the second wife of Joseph Stalin.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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National anthem

A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition symbolizing and evoking eulogies of the history and traditions of a country or nation.

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National Revolutionary Army

The National Revolutionary Army (NRA), sometimes shortened to Revolutionary Army before 1928, and as National Army after 1928, was the military arm of the Kuomintang (KMT, or the Chinese Nationalist Party) from 1925 until 1947 in China during the Republican era.

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Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)

The Nationalist faction (Bando nacional) or Rebel faction (Bando sublevado) was a major faction in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nazi Party

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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NEPman

NEPmen (translit) were businesspeople in the early Soviet Union, who took advantage of the opportunities for private trade and small-scale manufacturing provided under the New Economic Policy (NEP, 1921–1928).

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Nestor Lakoba

Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba (1 May 189328 December 1936) was an Abkhaz communist leader. Joseph Stalin and Nestor Lakoba are old Bolsheviks.

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New Athos

New Athos or Akhali Atoni is a town in the Gudauta ''raion'' of Abkhazia situated some from Sukhumi by the shores of the Black Sea.

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New Economic Policy

The New Economic Policy (NEP) was an economic policy of the Soviet Union proposed by Vladimir Lenin in 1921 as a temporary expedient.

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New Soviet man

The New Soviet man or New Soviet person (новый советский человек novy sovetsky chelovek), as postulated by the ideologists of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was an archetype of a person with specific qualities that were said to be emerging as dominant among all citizens of the Soviet Union, irrespective of the country's cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity, creating a single united Soviet people and Soviet nation.

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Night of the Long Knives

The Night of the Long Knives (Nacht der langen Messer), also called the Röhm purge or Operation Hummingbird (Unternehmen Kolibri), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934.

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Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964. Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev are 20th-century atheists, first convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, heads of government of the Soviet Union, heads of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Heroes of Socialist Labour, Heroes of the Soviet Union, members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, members of the Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, members of the Secretariat of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, people of the Cold War, Russian atheism activists, Russian communists, Russification and time Person of the Year.

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Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (p; – 15 March 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist. Joseph Stalin and Nikolai Bukharin are members of the Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members and Russian communist poets.

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Nikolai Bulganin

Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin (Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Булга́нин; – 24 February 1975) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958. Joseph Stalin and Nikolai Bulganin are anti-revisionists, heads of government of the Soviet Union, Heroes of Socialist Labour, Marshals of the Soviet Union, members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, members of the Orgburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, ministers of defence of the Soviet Union, old Bolsheviks and Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members.

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Nikolai Voznesensky

Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky (Никола́й Алексе́евич Вознесе́нский., – 1 October 1950) was a Soviet politician and economic planner who oversaw the running of Gosplan (the USSR's State Planning Committee) during the German-Soviet War of 1941–1945. Joseph Stalin and Nikolai Voznesensky are members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and members of the Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

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Nikolai Yezhov

Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (p; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the height of the Great Purge. Joseph Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov are first convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks and Russian communists.

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Nikolay Nekrasov

Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov (a, –) was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the Russian intelligentsia of the mid-nineteenth century, particularly as represented by Vissarion Belinsky and Nikolay Chernyshevsky.

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NKVD Order No. 00447

NKVD Order No.

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NKVD prisoner massacres

The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions of political prisoners carried out by the NKVD, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union, across Eastern Europe, primarily in Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states and Bessarabia.

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NKVD troika

NKVD troika or Special troika (osobaya troyka), in Soviet history, were the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD which would later be the beginning of the KGB) made up of three officials who issued sentences to people after simplified, speedy investigations and without a public trial.

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North Caucasus

The North Caucasus, or Ciscaucasia, is a region in Europe governed by Russia.

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Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

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Numeracy

Numeracy is the ability to understand, reason with, and apply simple numerical concepts.

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Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)

The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by the end of 1944 extended to all parts of Czechoslovakia.

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Occupation of Japan

Japan was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, at the war's end until the Treaty of San Francisco took effect on April 28, 1952.

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Occupation of the Baltic states

The occupation of the Baltic states was a period of annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania begun by the Soviet Union in 1940, continued for three years by Nazi Germany after it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and finally resumed by the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991.

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October Revolution

The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup,, britannica.com Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.

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Okhrana

The Department for the Protection of Public Safety and Order (Otdelenie po okhraneniyu obshchestvennoy bezopadnosti i poryadka), usually called the Guard Department (Okhrannoye otdelenie) and commonly abbreviated in modern English sources as the Okhrana (t) was a secret police force of the Russian Empire and part of the police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) in the late 19th century and early 20th century, aided by the Special Corps of Gendarmes.

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Old Bolsheviks

The Old Bolsheviks (stary bolshevik), also called the Old Bolshevik Guard or Old Party Guard, were members of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917.

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Oleg Khlevniuk

Oleg Vitalyevich Khlevniuk (Олег Витальевич Хлевнюк; born 7 July 1959 in Vinnytsia, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian historian.

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Oligarchy

Oligarchy is a conceptual form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people.

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On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences

On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences («О культе личности и его последствиях», «O kul'te lichnosti i yego posledstviyakh»), popularly known as the Secret Speech (секретный доклад Хрущёва), was a report by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, made to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 25 February 1956.

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One-party state

A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system or single-party system is a governance structure in which only a single political party controls the ruling system.

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Operation Bagration

Operation Bagration (Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian strategic offensive operation (Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya operatsiya "Bagration"), a military campaign fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern Front of World War II, just over two weeks after the start of Operation Overlord in the west, causing Nazi Germany to have to fight on two major fronts at the same time.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Order No. 227

Order No.

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Order No. 270

Order No.

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Order of the Red Banner

The Order of the Red Banner (Orden Krasnogo Znameni) was the first Soviet military decoration.

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Orgburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The 18th Orgburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was elected by the 1st Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee, in the immediate aftermath of the 18th Congress.

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Osip Piatnitsky

Osip Aaronovitch Piatnitsky (Осип Аронович Пятницкий,; Iosif Aronovich Tarshis, 29 January 1882, Kovno Governorate – 29 July, 1938, Moscow), was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. Joseph Stalin and Osip Piatnitsky are Comintern people, members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks and Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members.

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Ossetians

The Ossetians (or; Ossetic), also known as Ossetes, Ossets, and Alans, are an Eastern Iranian ethnic group who are indigenous to Ossetia, a region situated across the northern and southern sides of the Caucasus Mountains.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Palace of the Soviets

The Palace of the Soviets (Дворец Советов, Dvorec Sovetov) was a project to construct a political convention center in Moscow on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

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Pan-Slavism

Pan-Slavism, a movement that took shape in the mid-19th century, is the political ideology concerned with promoting integrity and unity for the Slavic people. Joseph Stalin and Pan-Slavism are Russification.

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Paramilitary

A paramilitary is a military that is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces.

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Patriarch Sergius of Moscow

Patriarch Sergius (ПатриархСергий; born Ivan Nikolayevich Stragorodsky, Иван Николаевич Страгородский; – May 15, 1944) was the 12th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', from September 8, 1943 until his death on May 15, 1944.

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People's Commissariat

A People's Commissariat (narodnyy komissariat; Narkomat) was a structure in the Soviet state (in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in other union and autonomous republics, in the Soviet Union) from 1917–1946 which functioned as the central executive body in charge of managing a particular field of state activity or a separate sector of the national economy; analogue of the ministry.

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People's Commissariat for Nationalities

The People's Commissariat of Nationalities of the RSFSR (Narodny komissariat po delam natsional'nostey RSFSR), abbreviated NKNats or Narkomnats, an organization functioning from 1917 to 1924 in the early Soviet period of Russian and Soviet history, tasked with dealing with non-Russian nationalities.

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Perm, Russia

Perm (Пермь,; Перем; Перым), previously known as Yagoshikha (label; 1723–1781) and Molotov (label; 1940–1957), is the administrative centre of Perm Krai in the European part of Russia.

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Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union

Throughout the history of the Soviet Union (1917–1991), there were periods when Soviet authorities suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity to different extents depending on state interests. Joseph Stalin and Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union are anti-religious campaign in the Soviet Union.

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Peter Kenez

Peter Kenez (Kenéz Péter; born 1937) is a Hungarian-American historian specializing in Russian and Eastern European history and politics.

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Peter the Great

Peter I (–), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725.

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Petrograd Metropolis electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Petrograd Metropolis electoral district (Петроградский столичный избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Planned economy

A planned economy is a type of economic system where the distribution of goods and services or the investment, production and the allocation of capital goods takes place according to economic plans that are either economy-wide or limited to a category of goods and services. Joseph Stalin and planned economy are Marxism–Leninism.

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Polish nationalism

Polish nationalism is a nationalism which asserts that the Polish people are a nation and which affirms the cultural unity of Poles.

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Polish United Workers' Party

The Polish United Workers' Party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza), commonly abbreviated to PZPR, was the communist party which ruled the Polish People's Republic as a one-party state from 1948 to 1989.

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Polish–Soviet War

The Polish–Soviet War (late autumn 1918 / 14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic before it became a union republic in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, on territories which were previously held by the Russian Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy following the Partitions of Poland.

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Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 1939 to 1952.

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Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (abbreviated), or Politburo (p) was the highest political body of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and de facto a collective presidency of the USSR.

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Politburo, Secretariat and Orgburo of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The Politburo, Secretariat and Orgburo of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) were elected by the 1st Plenary Session of the 9th Central Committee, in the immediate aftermath of the 9th Congress.

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Popular front

A popular front is "any coalition of working-class and middle-class parties", including liberal and social democratic ones, "united for the defense of democratic forms" against "a presumed Fascist assault".

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Population transfer in the Soviet Union

From 1930 to 1952, the government of the Soviet Union, on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin under the direction of the NKVD official Lavrentiy Beria, forcibly transferred populations of various groups.

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Potsdam Conference

The Potsdam Conference was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

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Pravda

Pravda (a, 'Truth') is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million.

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Premier of the Soviet Union

The Premier of the Soviet Union (Глава Правительства СССР) was the head of government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Joseph Stalin and Premier of the Soviet Union are heads of government of the Soviet Union.

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Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was in session from 1952 to 1956.

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Primus inter pares

Primus inter pares is a Latin phrase meaning first among equals.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Proletarian revolution

A proletarian revolution or proletariat revolution is a social revolution in which the working class attempts to overthrow the bourgeoisie and change the previous political system.

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Protection racket

A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees protection outside the sanction of the law to another entity or individual from violence, robbery, ransacking, arson, vandalism, and other such threats, in exchange for payments at regular intervals.

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Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.

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Psychopathy

Psychopathy, or psychopathic personality, is a personality construct characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited and egocentric traits, masked by superficial charm and the outward appearance of apparent normalcy.

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R. W. Davies

Robert William Davies (23 April 1925 – 13 April 2021), better known as R. W. Davies or Bob Davies, was a British historian, writer and professor of Soviet Economic Studies at the University of Birmingham.

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Rabkrin

The People's Commissariat of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection, also known as Rabkrin (РКИ, RKI; Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, WPI), was a governmental establishment in the Soviet Union of ministerial level (people's commissariat) that was responsible for scrutinizing the state, local and enterprise administrations.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Red Army invasion of Georgia

The Red Army invasion of Georgia (12 February17 March 1921), also known as the Georgian–Soviet War or the Soviet invasion of Georgia,Debo, R. (1992).

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Red Square

Red Square (Krasnaya ploshchad') is one of the oldest and largest squares in Moscow, the capital of Russia.

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Red Terror

The Red Terror (krasnyy terror) was a campaign of political repression and executions in Soviet Russia carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police.

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Reichskommissariat Ostland

The Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO) was established by Nazi Germany in 1941 during World War II.

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Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)

The Republican faction (Bando republicano), also known as the Loyalist faction (Bando leal) or the Government faction (Bando gubernamental), was the side in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939 that supported the government of the Second Spanish Republic against the Nationalist faction of the military rebellion.

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Riga

Riga is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia, as well as one of the most populous cities in the Baltic States.

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Robert Conquest

George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British-American historian, poet, and novelist.

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Romani people

The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.

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Romanization of Georgian

Romanization of Georgian is the process of transliterating the Georgian language from the Georgian script into the Latin script.

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Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.

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Russian Constituent Assembly

The All Russian Constituent Assembly (Vserossiyskoye uchreditelnoye sobraniye) was a constituent assembly convened in Russia after the February Revolution of 1917.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russian imperialism

Russian imperialism includes the policy and ideology of power exerted by Russia, as well as its antecedent states, over other countries and external territories.

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Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskovskiy patriarkhat), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.

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Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917. Joseph Stalin and Russian Revolution are communism in Russia.

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Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP;, Rossiyskaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya rabochaya partiya (RSDRP)), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or the Russian Social Democratic Party, was a socialist political party founded in 1898 in Minsk (then in Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire, present-day Belarus). Joseph Stalin and Russian Social Democratic Labour Party are old Bolsheviks.

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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR.. Joseph Stalin and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic are communism in Russia.

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Russification

Russification (rusifikatsiya), or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians, whether involuntarily or voluntarily, give up their culture and language in favor of the Russian culture and the Russian language.

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Sakhalin

Sakhalin (p) is an island in Northeast Asia.

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Samara

Samara, formerly known as Kuybyshev during Soviet rule, is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast in Russia.

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Science and technology in the Soviet Union

Science and technology in the Soviet Union served as an important part of national politics, practices, and identity.

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Scorched earth

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure.

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Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931.

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Second United Front

The Second United Front (p) was the alliance between the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to resist the Japanese invasion of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, which suspended the Chinese Civil War from 1937 to 1945.

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Secretariat of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The Secretariat of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was in session from 2 April 1922 to 25 April 1923.

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Secretariat of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The 19th Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was elected by the 19th Central Committee in the aftermath of the 19th Congress.

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Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was responsible for managing and directing the day-to-day operations of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, while the Politburo was charged with the policy-making aspects of the party.

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Semipalatinsk Test Site

The Semipalatinsk Test Site or Semipalatinsk-21, also known as "The Polygon", was the primary testing venue for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons.

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Semyon Budyonny

Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny (a; – 26 October 1973) was a Soviet cavalryman, military commander during the Russian Civil War, Polish-Soviet War and World War II, and politician, who was a close political ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin and Semyon Budyonny are Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Heroes of the Soviet Union, Marshals of the Soviet Union and members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

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Semyon Timoshenko

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (Семён Константинович Тимошенко; Semen Kostiantynovych Tymoshenko; – 31 March 1970) was a Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and one of the most prominent Red Army commanders during the Second World War. Joseph Stalin and Semyon Timoshenko are Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, first convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Heroes of the Soviet Union, Marshals of the Soviet Union, members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), ministers of defence of the Soviet Union, people of the Russian Revolution and Recipients of the Order of Victory.

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Seoul

Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.

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Sergei Kirov

Sergei Mironovich Kirov (born Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary. Joseph Stalin and Sergei Kirov are anti-revisionists, Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks, Perpetrators of the Red Terror (Russia), Russian communists, Signatories of the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Stalinism.

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Sergo Ordzhonikidze

Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze (born Grigol Konstantines dze Orjonikidze; 18 February 1937) was a Georgian-born Bolshevik and Soviet politician. Joseph Stalin and Sergo Ordzhonikidze are Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, communists from Georgia (country), members of the Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 6th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks, people of the Russian Civil War, Perpetrators of the Red Terror (Russia), Revolutionaries from Georgia (country) and Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members.

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Shakhty Trial

The Shakhty Trial (Ша́хтинское де́ло) was the first important Soviet show trial since the case of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1922.

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Show trial

A show trial is a public trial in which the guilt or innocence of the defendant has already been determined.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Siege of Leningrad

The Siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military siege undertaken by the Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front of World War II.

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Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

The Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact was signed in Nanjing on August 21, 1937, between the Republic of China and the Soviet Union during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance

The Treaty of Friendship and Alliance (Traditional Chinese: 中蘇友好同盟條約) was a treaty signed by the National Government of the Republic of China and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on 14 August 1945.

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Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance

The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance (Russian: Советско-китайский договор о дружбе, союзе и взаимной помощи), or Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance for short, was a bilateral treaty of alliance, collective security, aid and cooperation concluded between the People's Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on February 14, 1950.

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Slavic Review

The Slavic Review is a major peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarly studies, book and film reviews, and review essays in all disciplines concerned with "Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, past and present".

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Slánský trial

The Slánský trial (officially Proces s vedením protistátního spikleneckého centra v čele s Rudolfem Slánským English: "Trial of the Leadership of the Anti-State Conspiracy Centre Headed by Rudolf Slánský") was a 1952 antisemiticBlumenthal, Helaine.

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Slovak Republic (1939–1945)

The (First) Slovak Republic ((Prvá) Slovenská republika), otherwise known as the Slovak State (Slovenský štát), was a partially-recognized clerical fascist client state of Nazi Germany which existed between 14 March 1939 and 4 April 1945 in Central Europe.

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Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.

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Smolny Institute

The Smolny Institute (Смольный институт) is a Palladian edifice in Saint Petersburg that has played a major part in the history of Russia.

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Social conservatism

Social conservatism is a political philosophy and a variety of conservatism which places emphasis on traditional social structures over social pluralism.

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Social democracy

Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and supports a gradualist, reformist and democratic approach towards achieving socialism.

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Social Democratic Party of Finland

The Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP, Suomen sosialidemokraattinen puolue, nicknamed: demarit in Finnish; Finlands socialdemokratiska parti) is a social democratic political party in Finland.

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Social fascism

Social fascism was a theory developed by the Communist International (Comintern) in the early 1930s which saw social democracy as a moderate variant of fascism. Joseph Stalin and social fascism are Marxism–Leninism.

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Socialism in one country

Socialism in one country is a theory developed by Joseph Stalin to strengthen socialism within the country rather than socialism globally. Joseph Stalin and socialism in one country are Marxism–Leninism and Stalinism.

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Socialist mode of production

The socialist mode of production, or simply (Marxist) socialism or communism as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels used the terms communism and socialism interchangeably, is a specific historical phase of economic development and its corresponding set of social relations that emerge from capitalism in the schema of historical materialism within Marxist theory.

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Socialist realism

Socialist realism was the official cultural doctrine of the Soviet Union that mandated an idealized representation of life under socialism in literature and the visual arts.

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Socialist Revolutionary Party

The Socialist Revolutionary Party (the SRs, СР, or Esers, label; Pártiya sotsialístov-revolyutsionérov, label), was a major political party in late Imperial Russia, during both phases of the Russian Revolution, and in early Soviet Russia.

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South Caucasus

The South Caucasus, also known as Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and West Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus Mountains.

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Soviet Armed Forces

The Soviet Armed Forces, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922) and the Soviet Union (1922–1991) from their beginnings in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.

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Soviet atomic bomb project

The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during and after World War II.

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Soviet famine of 1930–1933

The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine and different parts of Russia, including Kazakhstan, Northern Caucasus, Kuban Region, Volga Region, the South Urals, and West Siberia.

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Soviet famine of 1946–1947

The Soviet famine of 1946–1947 was a major famine in the Soviet Union that lasted from mid-1946 to the winter of 1947 to 1948.

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Soviet invasion of Manchuria

The Soviet invasion of Manchuria, formally known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation or simply the Manchurian Operation, began on 9 August 1945 with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.

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Soviet invasion of Poland

The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war.

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Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

Between 28 June and 3 July 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, following an ultimatum made to Romania on 26 June 1940 that threatened the use of force.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. Joseph Stalin and Soviet Union are communism in Russia.

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Soviet Union in World War II

After the Munich Agreement, the Soviet Union pursued a rapprochement with Nazi Germany.

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Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919

The Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919 was part of the campaign by Soviet Russia into areas abandoned by the Ober Ost garrisons that were being withdrawn to Germany following that country's defeat in World War I. The initially successful offensive against the Republic of Estonia ignited the Estonian War of Independence which ended with the Soviet recognition of Estonia.

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Soviet–Japanese border conflicts

The Soviet–Japanese border conflicts, also known as the Soviet-Japanese Border War, the First Soviet-Japanese War, the Russo-Mongolian-Japanese Border Wars or the Soviet-Mongolian-Japanese Border Wars, were a series of minor and major conflicts fought between the Soviet Union (led by Joseph Stalin), Mongolia (led by Khorloogiin Choibalsan) and Japan (led by Hirohito) in Northeast Asia from 1932 to 1939.

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Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact

The, also known as the, was a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan signed on April 13, 1941, two years after the conclusion of the Soviet-Japanese Border War.

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Soviet–Japanese War

The Soviet–Japanese War was a campaign of the Second World War that began with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria following the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on 8 August 1945.

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Sovkhoz

A sovkhoz (a, abbreviated from советское хозяйство, "sovetskoye khozyaystvo (sovkhoz)") was a form of state-owned farm in the Soviet Union.

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Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.

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St George the Martyr, Holborn

St George the Martyr Holborn is an Anglican church located at the south end of Queen Square, Holborn, in the London Borough of Camden.

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Stakhanovite movement

The Stakhanovite movement (stakhánovskoye dvizhéniye) was a mass cultural movement of workers which originated in the Soviet Union, and encouraged socialist emulation and rationalization of workplace processes.

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Stalin: Breaker of Nations

Stalin: Breaker of Nations is a biography of Joseph Stalin by author and historian Robert Conquest. Joseph Stalin and Stalin: Breaker of Nations are Stalinism.

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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928

Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 is the first volume in the three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin by American historian and Princeton Professor of History Stephen Kotkin. Joseph Stalin and Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 are Stalinism.

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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941

Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 is the second volume in the three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin by American historian and Princeton Professor of History Stephen Kotkin.

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Stalinism

Stalinism is the totalitarian means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin and Stalinism are Marxism–Leninism.

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State Anthem of the Soviet Union

The "State Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" was the national anthem of the Soviet Union and the regional anthem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1944 to 1991, replacing "The Internationale".

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State capitalism

State capitalism is an economic system in which the state undertakes business and commercial (i.e., for-profit) economic activity and where the means of production are nationalized as state-owned enterprises (including the processes of capital accumulation, centralized management and wage labor).

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State Defense Committee

The State Defense Committee (translit) was an extraordinary organ of state power in the Soviet Union during the German-Soviet War, also called the Great Patriotic War, with complete state power in the country.

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State socialism

State socialism is a political and economic ideology within the socialist movement that advocates state ownership of the means of production.

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Stavka

The Stavka (Russian and Ukrainian: Ставка, Belarusian: Стаўка) is a name of the high command of the armed forces formerly used formerly in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union and currently in Ukraine.

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Stephen G. Wheatcroft

Stephen George Wheatcroft (born 1 June 1947) is a Professorial Fellow of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne.

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Stephen Kotkin

Stephen Mark Kotkin (born February 17, 1959) is an American historian, academic, and author.

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Superpower

Superpower describes a sovereign state or supranational union that holds a dominant position characterized by the ability to exert influence and project power on a global scale.

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Surrender of Japan

The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war.

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Sverdlov Communist University

The Sverdlov Communist University (Russian: Коммунистический университет имени Я. М. Свердлова) was a school for Soviet activists in Moscow, founded in 1918 as the Central School for Soviet and Party Work.

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Svetlana Alliluyeva

Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (born Stalina; 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva.

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Szklarska Poręba

Szklarska Poręba (Schreiberhau) is a town in Karkonosze County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

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Tatars

The Tatars, in the Collins English Dictionary formerly also spelt Tartars, is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" across Eastern Europe and Asia. Initially, the ethnonym Tatar possibly referred to the Tatar confederation. That confederation was eventually incorporated into the Mongol Empire when Genghis Khan unified the various steppe tribes.

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Tbilisi

Tbilisi (თბილისი), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis, (tr) is the capital and largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of around 1.2 million people.

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Tbilisi Theological Seminary

Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary (tr; translit) is a seminary in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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Tehran Conference

The Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka) was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943.

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The American Historical Review

The American Historical Review is a quarterly academic history journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical Association, for which it is its official publication.

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The Internationale

"The Internationale" (italic) is an international anthem that has been adopted as the anthem of various anarchist, communist, socialist, democratic socialist, and social democratic movements.

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Tiflis Governorate

Tiflis Governorate was a province (guberniya) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire with its administrative centre in Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi).

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Time Person of the Year

Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the American news magazine and website Time featuring a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse...

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Timothy Snyder

Timothy David Snyder (born August 18, 1969) is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust.

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Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society.

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Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic

The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (Transcaucasian SFSR or TSFSR), also known as the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, or simply Transcaucasia, was a republic of the Soviet Union that existed from 1922 to 1936.

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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria), by which Russia withdrew from World War I. The treaty, which followed months of negotiations after the armistice on the Eastern Front in December 1917, was signed at Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belarus).

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Treaty of Riga

The Treaty of Riga was signed in Riga, Latvia, on between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia (acting also on behalf of Soviet Belarus) and Soviet Ukraine on the other, ending the Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921).

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Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

The Declaration and Treaty on the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Декларация и договор об образовании Союза СоветскихСоциалистическихРеспублик) officially created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union.

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Tripartite Pact

The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano, and Saburō Kurusu (in that order) and in the presence of Adolf Hitler.

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Triumvirate

A triumvirate (triumvirātus) or a triarchy is a political institution ruled or dominated by three individuals, known as triumvirs (triumviri).

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Trofim Lysenko

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (Трофи́м Дени́сович Лысе́нко; Trokhym Denysovych Lysenko,; 20 November 1976) was a Soviet agronomist and scientist. Joseph Stalin and Trofim Lysenko are Heroes of Socialist Labour.

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Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (TASSR;,; 30 April 191827 October 1924), originally called the Turkestan Socialist Federative Republic, was an autonomous republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic located in Soviet Central Asia.

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United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.

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United Opposition (Soviet Union)

The United Opposition (sometimes translated Joint Opposition) was a group formed in the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in early 1926, when the Left Opposition led by Leon Trotsky, merged with the New Opposition led by Grigory Zinoviev and his close ally Lev Kamenev, in order to strengthen opposition against the Joseph Stalin-led Centre.

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Utopia

A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members.

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Vadim Rogovin

Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin (Вади́м Заха́рович Рого́вин; 10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Russian Marxist (Trotskyist) historian and sociologist, Ph.D. in philosophy, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the author of Was There An Alternative?, the 7-volume study of the Stalin era between 1923 and 1940, with an emphasis on the Trotskyist opposition.

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Vanguardism

Vanguardism, in the context of Leninist revolutionary struggle, relates to a strategy whereby the most class-conscious and politically "advanced" sections of the proletariat or working class, described as the revolutionary vanguard, form organizations to advance the objectives of communism. Joseph Stalin and Vanguardism are Stalinism.

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Vasily Grossman

Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (Васи́лий Семёнович Гро́ссман; 12 December (29 November, Julian calendar) 1905 – 14 September 1964) was a Soviet writer and journalist. Joseph Stalin and Vasily Grossman are Soviet people of World War II.

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Vasily Stalin

Vasily Iosifovich Stalin Dzhugashvili (ვასილი იოსების ძე სტალინი ჯუღაშვილი, Василий Иосифович Сталин Джугашвили; 21 March 1921 – 19 March 1962) was the youngest son of Joseph Stalin, born from his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva.

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Vladimir Bekhterev

Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (p; 20 January 1857 – 24 December 1927) was a Russian neurologist and the father of objective psychology.

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin are 20th-century atheists, Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Comintern people, heads of government of the Soviet Union, heads of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Marxism–Leninism, members of the Bureau of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 6th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 7th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks, people of the Russian Civil War, Perpetrators of the Red Terror (Russia), Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members, Russian atheism activists and Russian communists.

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Vladimir Nevsky

Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky (Russian: Влади́мир Ива́нович Не́вский; 14 May 1876, Rostov on Don – 26 May 1937, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian revolutionary, Bolshevik functionary, Soviet statesman, professor and historian. Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Nevsky are members of the Central Committee of the 6th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks and Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members.

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Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia. Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Putin are time Person of the Year.

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Volga-Volga

Volga-Volga (Волга-Волга) is a Soviet musical comedy directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, released on April 24, 1938.

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Volgograd

Volgograd (p), formerly Tsaritsyn (label) (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (label) (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia.

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Vyacheslav Menzhinsky

Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky (Вячесла́в Рудо́льфович Менжи́нский, Wiesław Rudolfowicz Mężyński; – 10 May 1934) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who served as chairman of the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union, from 1926 to 1934. Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Menzhinsky are Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks, Politicide perpetrators and Unsolved deaths in Russia.

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Vyacheslav Molotov

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov (9 March 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary 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. Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov are anti-revisionists, great Purge perpetrators, heads of government of the Soviet Union, Heroes of Socialist Labour, honorary Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, members of the Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, members of the Central Committee of the 6th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Orgburo of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, members of the Secretariat of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Secretariat of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members, Russian communists, Soviet people of World War II, Stalinism and world War II political leaders.

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Wall of Grief

The Wall of Grief (Stena skorbi; sometimes translated as Wall of Sorrow) is a monument in Moscow to the victims of political persecution by Joseph Stalin during the country's Soviet era.

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Wall Street Crash of 1929

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, Crash of '29, or Black Tuesday, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929.

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Walt Whitman

Walter Whitman Jr. (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.

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War communism

War communism or military communism (Военный коммунизм, Vojenný kommunizm) was the economic and political system that existed in Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1921.

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Warfarin

Warfarin is an anticoagulant used as a medication under several brand names including Coumadin.

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Warsaw Uprising

The Warsaw Uprising (powstanie warszawskie; Warschauer Aufstand), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (powstanie sierpniowe), was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

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Webbed toes

Webbed toes is the informal and common name for syndactyly affecting the feet—the fusion of two or more digits of the feet.

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Wehrmacht

The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.

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Western Front (World War II)

The Western Front was a military theatre of World War II encompassing Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. The Italian front is considered a separate but related theatre. The Western Front's 1944–1945 phase was officially deemed the European Theater by the United States, whereas Italy fell under the Mediterranean Theater along with the North African campaign.

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White movement

The White movement (p), also known as the Whites (Бѣлые / Белые, Beliye), was a loose confederation of anti-communist forces that fought the communist Bolsheviks, also known as the Reds, in the Russian Civil War and that to a lesser extent continued operating as militarized associations of rebels both outside and within Russian borders in Siberia until roughly World War II (1939–1945).

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White Sea–Baltic Canal

The White Sea–Baltic Canal (translit), often abbreviated to White Sea Canal (Belomorkanal) is a man-made ship canal in Russia opened on 2 August 1933.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955. Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill are people of the Cold War, time Person of the Year and world War II political leaders.

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Winter War

The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland.

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World revolution

World revolution is the Marxist concept of overthrowing capitalism in all countries through the conscious revolutionary action of the organized working class.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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World War II casualties of the Soviet Union

World War II losses of the Soviet Union were about 27,000,000 both civilian and military from all war-related causes, although exact figures are disputed.

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Yakov Dzhugashvili

Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili (– 14 April 1943) was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth. Joseph Stalin and Yakov Dzhugashvili are people of World War II from Georgia (country).

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Yakov Sverdlov

Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (– 16 March 1919) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician who served as Chairman of the Secretariat of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) from 1918 until his death in 1919, and as Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (head of state of the Russian SFSR) from 1917 until his death. Joseph Stalin and Yakov Sverdlov are Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, heads of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, members of the Bureau of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 6th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 7th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), members of the Central Committee of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), old Bolsheviks, people of the Russian Civil War, people of the Russian Revolution, Perpetrators of the Red Terror (Russia), Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members, Russian communists and Russian revolutionaries.

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Yalta Conference

The Yalta Conference (Yaltinskaya konferentsiya), held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.

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Zhenotdel

The Zhenotdel (p), the women's department of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), was the section of the Russian Communist party devoted to women's affairs in the 1920s.

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Zionism

Zionism is an ethno-cultural nationalist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a Jewish state through the colonization of a land outside of Europe.

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11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The 11th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held during 27 March – 2 April 1922 in Moscow.

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13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The 13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was held during 23–31 May 1924 in Moscow.

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14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was held during 18–31 December 1925 in Moscow.

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1918 Constitution of Soviet Russia

The constitution of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918 was the first constitution in Russia.

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1931 Menshevik Trial

The Menshevik Trial was one of the early purges carried out by Stalin in which 14 economists, who were former members of the Menshevik party, were put on trial and convicted for trying to re-establish their party as the "Union Bureau of the Mensheviks".

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1937 Soviet census

The 1937 Soviet census held on January 6, 1937, was the most controversial of the censuses taken within the Soviet Union.

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1945 Moscow Victory Parade

The 1945 Moscow Victory Parade (r), also known as the Parade of Victors (r), was a victory parade held by the Soviet Armed Forces (with the Color Guard Company representing the First Polish Army) after the defeat of Nazi Germany.

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20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (XX cyezd Kommunisticheskoy partii Sovetskogo Soyuza) was held during the period 14–25 February 1956.

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22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (XXII съезд КПСС) was held from 17 to 31 October 1961.

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7th World Congress of the Comintern

The Seventh World Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) was a multinational conference held in Moscow from July 25 through August 20, 1935 by delegated representatives of ruling and non-ruling communist parties from around the world and invited guests representing other political and organized labor organizations.

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8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (b) was held in Moscow 18–-23 March 1919.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

Also known as Chijikov, Comrade Stalin, Critique of Stalin, Dze Jugashvili, I.V. Stalin, Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili, Ioseb Besarionis dze Jugashvili, Ioseb Dzhugashvili, Ioseb Jugashvili, Ioseb Jughashvili, Ioseb Stalin, Ioseb Vissarionovich Jugashvili, Iosef Dzhugashvili, Iosef Dzugashvili, Iosef Jugashvili, Iosef Stalin, Iosif Djugashvili, Iósif Dzhugashvíli, Iosif Jugashvili, Iosif Stalin, Iosif Vissarionovic Dzugasvili, Iosif Vissarionovic Stalin, Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, Iosif Vissarionovič Džugašvili, Iosif Vissarionovič Stalin, Ivan Stalin, J V Stalin, J. Dzhugashvili, J. V. Stalin, J.V. Stalin, JV Stalin, Joe Stalin, Joey Stalin, Josef Dzhugashvili, Josef Dzugashvili, Josef Jughashvili, Josef Stalin, Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili, Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, Joseph Djugashvili, Joseph Dzhugashvili, Joseph Jughashvili, Joseph Stalin's death conspiracy, Joseph Stalin's death conspiracy Theories, Joseph Staline, Joseph V Stalin, Joseph V. Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, Joseph, Man of Steel, Josif Djugashvili, Josif Dzhugashvili, Josif Stalin, Josif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, Josip Stalin, Jospeh Stalin, Jossif Vissarionovich Dhzugazvili, Jozef Stalin, Marshal Stalin, Nijeradze, Personal life of Joseph Stalin, Political views of Joseph Stalin, STALIN, Soso Jughashvili, Soso Stalin, Stalin's, Stalin, Joseph, Staline, Stallin, Uncle Joe Stalin, Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, Vissarionovich Stalin, Yosef Stalin, Yosif Dzhugashvili, Yosif Stalin, Yosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, , Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Джугашвили, Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Ста́лин, Иосиф Виссарионович Джугашвили, Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин, Иосиф Джугашвили, Иосиф Сталин, Сталин.

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