When this proposal was made, Stalin spoke with stronger emotion than at any other time during the Conference.

To Stalin it was a matter of life and death.

And Harry Dexter White, implicated in F.B.I. reports in Communist associations, was one of the architects of the Morgenthau Plan, which had it ever been put into full operation, would have simply handed Germany to Stalin.

In 1944, Joseph Stalin said in a speech that artillery was " the God of War ".

In the conferences during World War II, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin openly requested the concession of Soviet military bases on the Straits, even though Turkey was not involved in the war.

After Joseph Stalin was acclaimed as leader of the CPSU in 1929, Pasternak became further disillusioned with the Party's tightening censorship of literature.

Instead, Pasternak was told, " Comrade Stalin is busy.

According to Ivinskaya, however, " I believe that between Stalin and Pasternak there was an incredible, silent duel.

When Stalin died of a stroke on 5 March 1953, Olga Ivinskaya was imprisoned in the Gulag, and Pasternak was in Moscow.

After all that had happened, open shadowing, friends turning away, Pasternak ’ s suicidal condition at the time, one can ... understand her: the memory of Stalin ’ s camps was too fresh, she tried to protect him.

Marshall was particularly discouraged after personally meeting with Stalin, who expressed little interest in a solution to German economic problems.

The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed in July 1953 after the death of Stalin, who had been insisting that the North Koreans continue fighting.

Membership in the party was as much a prerequisite for admission to colleges and for government jobs as in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin or Nikita Krushchev.

At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

Stalin, the second major contender, and future leader of the Soviet Union, was the least known of all the contenders, and he was not a popular figure with the masses.

But there was a problem ; Stalin was known for his brutality.

To make matters worse, Stalin began espousing his policy of socialism in one country – a policy often viewed, wrongly, as an attack on Trotsky, when it was really aimed at Zinoviev.

At the 14th Party Congress ( 18 – 31 December 1925 ) Kamenev and Zinoviev were forced into the same position that Trotsky had been forced into previously ; they proclaimed that the center was usurping power from the regional branches, and that Stalin was a danger to inner-party democracy.

From then on Stalin was the undisputed leader of the Soviet Union, and other leading officials, such as Bukharin, Tomsky, and Rykov were considerably weakened.

The dispute between Ordzhonikidze and Molotov, who represented the Soviet leadership, was settled by the establishment of a Congress Commission, which consisted of Stalin, Molotov, Ordzhonikidze, other Politburo members and certain economic experts.

In other words, the Central Committee was too weak to protect itself from Stalin and his hangmen.

Stalin declared that he preferred to continue the war a little longer, `` although it costs us blood '', in order to give Poland compensation in the West at the expense of the Germans.

Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.

But he rejects, perhaps a little too sweepingly, the theory that disloyal and pro-Communist influences may have contributed to the policy of appeasing Stalin which persisted until after the end of the war and reached its high point at the Yalta Conference in February, 1945.

In 1952, at the 19th Party Congress, Stalin declared: " There are no more Mensheviks.

Clement Attlee ( left ) with President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the 1945 Potsdam Conference.

Khrushchev had began to initiate nepotistic policies, initiated policies without the consent of either the Presidium or the Central Committee, a cult of personality had developed and, in general, Khrushchev had developed several characteristics which he himself criticised Stalin of having at the 20th Party Congress.

At the 21st Party Congress Khrushchev boldly declared that Leninist legality had been reestablishing, when in reality, he himself was beginning to following some of the same policies, albeit not at the same level, as Stalin had.

This territory, amounting to some, was incorporated into Russia by Joseph Stalin at the end of World War II.

In 1956 at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Khrushchev condemned the cult of personality that had been built up around Joseph Stalin and also accused him of many grave mistakes.

* 1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the " Big Three " ( Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin ) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.

Stalin attended the delegations at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, which drew the map of post-war Europe.

Joachim von Ribbentrop | Ribbentrop and Stalin at the signing of the Pact

The Big Three: Stalin, President of the United States | U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference, November 1943.

While initial talk existed of a race to Berlin by the Allies, after Stalin successfully lobbied for Eastern Germany to fall within the Soviet " sphere of influence " at Yalta, no plans were made by the Western Allies to seize the city by a ground operation.

Thereafter, Stalin was at times referred to as one of the most influential men in human history.

The Big Three: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President of the United States | U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 1945.

In February 1945, at the conference at Yalta, Stalin demanded a Soviet sphere of political influence in Eastern Europe.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, President of the United States | U. S. President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945. At the Potsdam Conference from July to August 1945, though Germany had surrendered months earlier, instead of withdrawing Soviet forces from Eastern European countries, Stalin had not moved those forces.

While Stalin had promised at the Yalta Conference that free elections would be held in Poland, after an election failure in " 3 times YES " elections, vote rigging was employed to win a majority in the carefully controlled poll.

In 1953 the Republican's Old Guard presented Eisenhower with a dilemma by insisting he disavow the Yalta Agreements as beyond the constitutional authority of the Executive Branch ; however, the death of Joseph Stalin in March 1953 made the matter a practical moot point.

Sebag-Montefiore does not dispute the possibility of an assassination by poison masterminded by Beria, whose hatred for Stalin was palpable by this point, but also notes that Beria never made mention of poison or confessed to using it, even during his later interrogations, and was never alone with Stalin during the period prior to his stroke ( he always went with Malenkov to defer suspicion ).

The thing which appeared to save Eisenstein's career at this point was that Stalin ended up taking the position that the Bezhin Meadow catastrophe, along with several other problems facing the industry at that point, had less to do with Eisenstein's approach to filmmaking as with the executives who were supposed to have been supervising him.

It was thought to be the highest point in the Pamirs in Tajikistan until 1933, when Ismoil Somoni Peak ( known as Stalin Peak at the time ) was climbed and found to be more than 300 metres higher.

In one of the clearest signs of Soviet control over the region up to that point, the Czechoslovakian foreign minister, Jan Masaryk, was summoned to Moscow and berated by Stalin for considering joining the Marshall Plan.

The Northern Expedition became a point of contention over foreign policy by Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky.

They point to the measures taken by Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin during the Russian Revolution since as early as 1917 as evidence of this.

After World War II, the death of Joseph Stalin, and the fall of the Soviet Union, more gangs emerged in a flourishing black market, exploiting the unstable governments of the former Republics, and at its highest point, even controlling as much as two-thirds of the Russian economy.

It was at this point that the CPUSA's foreign policy platform came under the complete control of Stalin, who enforced his directives through his secret police and foreign intelligence service, the NKVD.

This point was driven home by “ accounts … credit Stalin with much of the initiative and planning of flights, including, but not limited to listening carefully to the ideas of Soviet aviators and aviation planners, tracing pilots ’ routes, determining who fly, and ... giving the final permission .” Furthermore, the most prominent Soviet pilots ( the ones around whom mini personality cults developed ) enjoyed personal success, including compensation and other perks, within the structure of the USSR because of their successes in aviation.

The point of the story is to show that though Chkalov was a firebrand as a youth, “ in becoming a hero, had gained not only wisdom but the capacity to transmit that wisdom to others .” This unification of bravery and maturity was the model which Stalin wished to transmit as the ideal – his conception of the New Soviet Man.

The dangers of a exalting a single leader and the desirability of collective leadership had been perhaps the most direct point of Nikita Khrushchev ’ s Secret Speech to the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in February 1956, in which he condemned Stalin, Stalin ’ s methods and his cult of personality and which, according to Archie Brown, “ was the beginning of the end of international Communism .”

Another point which Hanson makes is that, in contrast to the repressive policies of Joseph Stalin and instability-inducing policies of Khrushchev, the Brezhnev era was stable and a " period of ( comparative ) plenty ".

" Another typical Eye Diary mocks Martin Amis's pretensions: " Why, pray, is it necessary to point out at this post-millennial juncture that Josef Stalin is no mate of this 52-year-old novelist?

A point of strong disagreement between de Gaulle and the Big Three ( Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill ), was that the President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic ( GPRF ), established on 3 June 1944, was not recognized as the legitimate representative of France.

However, it might well be the case that Moscow sought to avoid a great war in Europe because it was not strong enough to fight an offensive, but there was much disagreement over the policy between Litvinov and Molotov as to how to attain the goal, and Stalin balanced between their positions, starting pursuing both contradictory lines simultaneously quite early and abandoned collective security only at some point in 1939.

They consider that, after the death of Stalin, revisionists in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union leadership undermined socialism to the point where the Soviet Union collapsed.

When they finally admitted that the leaders had been arrested ( on 5 May ), the American envoy of Harry S. Truman, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, was told by Joseph Stalin that “ there is no point in linking the case of the Trial of the Sixteen with the support for the Soviet-backed government of Poland because the sentences will not be high .” Both British and American governments shared this view.

While Khrushchev was not hesitant to point out the flaws in Stalinist practice in regard to the purges of the army and Party and the management of the Great Patriotic War, he was very careful to avoid any criticism of Stalin ’ s industrialization policy or Communist Party ideology.

After the battle, its Political Commissars, Joseph Stalin and Kliment Voroshilov, failed to control the men in their command: with morale and discipline at a low point, robbery and violence by the ' Red Cossacks ' against the civilian population became commonplace.