In each of the last, the trial marked the beginning of a new course: in Moscow the liquidation of the Old Bolsheviks and the tightening of Stalin's dictatorship ; ;

Beria's fall also led to criticism of Stalin ; the party leadership accused Beria of using Stalin, a sick and old man, to force his own will on the Soviet Union during Stalin's last days.

On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.

In the uneasy silence following the cessation of Stalin's last agonies, Beria was the first to dart forward to kiss his lifeless form ( a move likened by Sebag-Montefiore to " wrenching a dead King's ring off his finger ").

During the last years of his life, Chen denounced Joseph Stalin's dictatorship, and held that various democratic institutions, including independent judiciaries, opposition parties, a free press, and free elections, were important and valuable.

Stalin's paranoia in his last years worsened as he began to suffer from the effects of arteriosclerosis.

As with Khrushchev and other companions, Mikoyan in his last days wrote frank but selective memoirs from his political career during Stalin's rule.

Yezhov had accomplished Stalin's intended task for the Great Purge: the public liquidation of the last of his Old Bolshevik political rivals and the elimination of any possibility of " disloyal elements " or " fifth columnists " within the Soviet military and government prior to the onset of war with Germany.

He was arrested, along with many other Jews, during Stalin's last weeks of life, and spent four to five years in a Siberian gulag ).

It appeared again in early 1953 in the form of the " doctors ' plot " in Stalin's last days, when hundreds of Jewish physicians in the Soviet Union were arrested and some of them killed on the charge of having caused the death of prominent Communist leaders ...

The Soviets realized Joseph Stalin's nationalities program in the Soviet Union's non-Russian areas by inaugurating the Autonomous National Republics, while suppressing the last impulses toward independence on the part of those Republics ' populations.

The woman turned out to be Stalin's daughter Svetlana, desperately seeking extension of her visa to build a memorial for her late husband Brajesh Singh of the Kalkanker royal family. Since the erstwhile USSR was opposed to India entertaining Svetlana, even the fact that Singh's nephew, Dinesh Singh, was in Indira Gandhi's inner circle did not help. Lohia, the stormy petrel of Indian politics, was her last hope.

According to the Levada polling centre, Stalin's popularity marks have tripled among Russians in the last twenty years, and the trend had accelerated since Vladimir Putin has come to power.

There are conflicting accounts of Stalin's birth, who listed his birth year in various documents as being in 1878 before coming to power in 1922.

In 1938 Walter Krivitsky, ( born Samuel Ginsberg ) a former GRU officer in Paris who had defected to France the previous year, travelled to the United States and published an account of his time in " Stalin's secret service.

* The Soviet National Anthem's lyrics are returned after a 24 year period, with Joseph Stalin's name omitted.

The style emerged out of the political crisis in 1956, following Stalin's death ; that same year saw the Warsaw Autumn music festival inaugurated, from whence came additional popularity for the Polish Composers ' School.

In 1953, the year of Stalin's death, he was permitted to re-establish his own Sukhoi Design Bureau.

This contains a chapter " Two Plus Two Equals Five ", which was a slogan used by Stalin's government to predict that the Five year plan would be completed in four years, which for a time appeared widely in Moscow.

" It was revoked after Stalin's death later that year.

In 1954, a year after Stalin's death, the new Soviet government of Nikita Khrushchev began to release political prisoners and close down the camps.

" Antonín Novotný became First Secretary of the KSČ in 1953, the year of Stalin's death, and continued to rule in Stalin's rigidly authoritarian style for fifteen years.

In Stalin's Slave Ships, Martin Bollinger undertakes a careful analysis of the number of prisoners who could have been transported by ship to Magadan between 1932 and 1953 ( some 900, 000 ) and the probable number of deaths each year ( averaging 27 %).

In March 1954, one year after Joseph Stalin's death, Chervenkov was deposed.

In March 1954, a year after Stalin's death, Chervenkov was deposed as Party Secretary with the approval of the new leadership in Moscow and replaced by the youthful Todor Zhivkov.

Beria, who had initially been part of the leading group after Stalin's death, was executed later that year.

The Soviet side had been expected by Moscow to win the 1952 Games, and their defeat by Yugoslavia was not mentioned in the Soviet press until after Joseph Stalin's death the following year.

Stalin's death, Churchill's farewell to public life, Hillary and Tensing on Everest, Quemoy and Matsu -- all subjects for a noble anger or an accolade.

Accounts of contemporaries and Stalin's letters indicate that he was much disturbed by the event .< ref name =' she has crippled me for life '>

In 2008, 88-year-old Felix Dadaev, a former dancer and juggler, disclosed that he had been one of four look-alikes whom Stalin had employed as decoys to mislead enemies and potential assassins ( there in fact were attempts on Stalin's life — two at Yalta alone ).

With the exception of brief business trips and lecture tours to Japan and China, Schütte-Lihotzky remained in the Soviet Union until 1937, when Stalin's Great Purge made life there intolerable and dangerous as well.

After Joseph Stalin's death the cultural life became more free.

Meanwhile, Kennan closely followed Stalin's Great Purge, which would profoundly affect his outlook on the internal dynamics of the Soviet regime for the rest of his life.

* Koba ( English play ), by Raymond Williams, based on Stalin's life but set in a fictional context.

After training, he was assigned to work as liaison to the French and Russian armies in connection with the Army's military intelligence unit, and where he heard first-hand stories of life in Stalin's USSR.

Dubbed the Vicar of Bray of politics and known as the " Survivor " during his time, Mikoyan was one of the few Old Bolsheviks who was spared from Stalin's purges and was able to retire comfortably from political life.

Yezhov's refusal to admit to a conspiracy against Stalin's life and his long, verifiable history as Stalin's primary inquisitor during the Great Purge made him too dangerous to risk at a public show trial where he might betray Stalin's secrets or successfully expose Stalin's orchestration of the Purge.

Die Zeit columnist Andreas Kilb wrote that he ended his life " a pitiful Kagemusha " of Stalin's image.

Possibly influenced by life in Stalin's Soviet Union, Zhang carried out cruel cleansings to persecute dissidents which resulted in his defeat and evacuation in 1932.

One prime example is the leader, president for life, and founder of second Yugoslavia, Marshal Josip Broz Tito who organized resistance against Nazi Germany in Yugoslavia, he effectively expelled Nazi occupation in Yugoslavia, co-founded the Non-Aligned Movement, and defied Joseph Stalin's Soviet pressure on Yugoslavia.

This literary and photographic record of life under Joseph Stalin's rule is a valuable historical document.

Frenkel ( far right ) at the White Sea-Baltic Canal works The perception that the Solovetsky camps under Frenkel were profitable was shared by Stalin: Stalin's preference for prison labour over ordinary labor can be found in Stalin's continuing interest throughout his life in the intimate details of camp administration.

Joseph Stalin's 1913 definition of a nation as " a historically constituted and stable community of people formed on the basis of common language, territory, economic life, and psychological makeup revealed in a common culture " was retained by Soviet authorities throughout the 1980s.

Protesters worked out their demands to authorities: official holiday day on 9 March ( Stalin's birthday ) publishing of articles devoted to Stalin's life in all local newspapers, show of films The Fall of Berlin and The Unforgettable Year 1919 by Mikheil Chiaureli ( both films were typical cinematic pieces of Stalin's cult of personality ) in cinemas and invitation of the Chinese marshal Zhu De, who was at that time visiting Georgia, to the meeting.