However, he did give him some praise saying in an article in the left-leaning New Statesman magazine, " I have never met a man more fair, candid, and honest " and making it clear that he felt the " sinister " image of Stalin was unfair or simply false.

In November 1943, Stalin met with Churchill and Roosevelt in Tehran.

In 1943, Stalin met with Churchill and Roosevelt in the Tehran Conference.

In 1944, Stalin met with Churchill in the Moscow Conference.

The governing body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) was the Party Congress which initially met annually but whose meetings became less frequent, particularly under Joseph Stalin.

It is said that Vladimir Lenin and a young Joseph Stalin met in the Crown and Anchor pub ( now known as The Crown Tavern ) on Clerkenwell Green when the latter was visiting London in 1903.

" Stalin initially met this usage with hesitancy, dismissing it as excessively praiseful and contributing to a cult of personality.

Soon Ching-kuo was an enthusiastic student of Communist ideology, particularly Trotskyism ; though following the Great Purge, Joseph Stalin privately met with him and ordered him to publicly denounce Trotskyism.

Churchill was an avid traveler and had met with Roosevelt on two previous occasions in the United States and had also held two prior meetings with Stalin in Moscow.

Roosevelt, who had traveled 7, 000 miles to attend and whose health had already started deteriorating, was met by Stalin ; this being the first time that they had met.

It is said that Lenin and a young Joseph Stalin met in the Crown and Anchor pub ( now known as The Crown Tavern ) on the Green when the latter was visiting London in 1903.

It is said that Vladimir Lenin and a young Joseph Stalin met in the Crown and Anchor pub ( now known as The Crown Tavern ) on Clerkenwell Green when the latter was visiting London in 1903.

Stalin and Hungarian leader Mátyás Rákosi met in Moscow to orchestrate a show trial of Rákosi opponent László Rajk, who was thereafter executed.

Nadezhda first met Stalin as a child when her father, Sergei Alliluyev, sheltered him after one of his escapes from Siberian exile during 1911.

His most important encounter occurred at Tsaritsyn ( later renamed Stalingrad, and now Volgograd ), where he met and befriended Joseph Stalin.

Initially a personal favourite of Stalin, Tito led the left-wing opposition to the Nazi occupation during the war, then met with the Soviet leadership several times immediately after the war to negotiate the future of Yugoslavia.

On 8 September 1943, Stalin met with three chief hierarchs of the “ Patriarchal ” Church and promised to make concessions to the Church and religion in general in exchange for its allegiance and support.

Finally, he sent his report to Joseph Stalin ; he met Stalin personally in 1950.

Here he first met Stalin: a fellow inmate with whom he engaged in ideological disputes.

Kang had played a wily game in the complex and murky world of Stalin ’ s Moscow, earning the following comment from Josip Broz Tito, who had met Kang in Moscow in 1935:

In December 1943 he met with Joseph Stalin at the Kremlin, gained his trust and became a prominent figure among Polish communists in the USSR.

Lange returned to the United States at the end of May, met with Free Polish London Exile Prime Minister Stanisław Mikołajczyk, who happened then to be in Washington, D. C., stressed how reasonable Joseph Stalin was prepared to be, and asked the State Department to put pressure on the exiled Poles.

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.

Accounts by Nikita Khrushchev and Anastas Mikoyan claim that, after the invasion, Stalin retreated to his dacha in despair for several days and did not participate in leadership decisions.

Thereafter, Stalin also conducted a purge of several military commanders that were shot for " cowardice " without a trial.

The " Doctors ' plot " was a plot outlined by Stalin and Soviet officials in 1952 and 1953 whereby several doctors ( over half of whom were Jewish ) allegedly attempted to kill Soviet officials.

While photographs and portraits portray Stalin as physically massive and majestic ( he had several painters shot who did not depict him " right "), he was only five feet four inches tall ( 160 cm ).

In addition, Tito was openly supportive of the Communist side in the Greek Civil War, while Stalin kept his distance, having agreed with Churchill not to pursue Soviet interests there, although he did support the Greek communist struggle politically, as demonstrated in several assemblies of the UN Security Council.

Stalin took the matter personally and attempted, unsuccessfully, to assassinate Tito on several occasions.

Support for the assertion that Stalin was poisoned by Beria's associates has been presented from several sources, including Edvard Radzinsky in his biography Stalin and a recent study by Miguel A. Faria in the journal Surgical Neurology International.

Stalin had ignored several warnings that Germany was likely to attack, and ordered no full-scale mobilization of forces.

For instance, Stalin would often consult a case with one Politburo, or several, in such informal meetings as dinner at Stalin's home.

The Politburo was broken down by the establishment of several sub-institutions which had no ties to each other with the exception of them being directly responsible to Stalin himself.

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.

His unorthodox experimental research in improved crop yields earned the support of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, especially following the famine and loss of productivity resulting from forced collectivization in several regions of the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.

* Disruption of several confirmed plots to assassinate Stalin.

However, Milovan Djilas claimed that he " drank more than Stalin " and did not note his vegetarianism despite having several banquets with him.

While Bukharin had support from the party organization in Moscow and the leadership of several commissariats Stalin's control of the secretariat was decisive in that it allowed Stalin to manipulate elections to party posts throughout the country giving him control over a large section of the Central Committee.

He visited the USSR several times after 1929, and in 1932 Joseph Stalin personally invited him to return for good, an offer he accepted.

Joseph Stalin had several rubber signature stamps which were used on awards and Communist party cards.

While Beneš was not a Moscow cadre and several domestic reforms of other Eastern Bloc countries were not part Beneš ' plan, Stalin did not object because the plan included property expropriation and he was satisfied with the relative strength of communists in Czechoslovakia compared to other Eastern Bloc countries.

In spite of Lenin's opinion that the NEP should last several decades at least, until universal literacy was accomplished, in 1928, after only nine years of NEP, Lenin's successor, Stalin, eventually introduced full central planning ( although a variant of public planning had been the idea of the Left Opposition, which Stalin purged from the Party ), re-nationalized much of the economy, and from the late 1920s onwards introduced a policy of rapid industrialization.

The defeat of several proletarian revolutions in countries like Germany and Hungary ended Bolshevik hopes for an imminent world revolution and began promotion of " Socialism in One Country " by Stalin.

When Churchill proposed to add parts of East Galicia, including the city of Lviv, to Poland's territory ( following Line B ), Stalin argued that the Soviet Union could not demand less territory for itself than the British Government had reconfirmed previously several times.