While the office was initially not highly regarded, Stalin used it to consolidate more power after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, gradually putting down all opposition.

While the Germans pressed forward, Stalin was confident of an eventual Allied victory over Germany.

While Red Army generals saw evidence that Hitler would shift efforts south, Stalin considered this to be a flanking campaign in efforts to take Moscow.

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.

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.

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 ).

While Stalin had little faith in Japan's commitment to neutrality, he felt that the pact was important for its political symbolism, to reinforce a public affection for Germany.

While Stalin exercised major control over political initiatives, their implementation was in the control of localities, often with local leaders interpreting the policies in a way that served themselves best.

While his letters to Stalin – he wrote 34 very emotional and desperate letters tearfully protesting his innocence and professing his loyalty – suggest a complete capitulation and acceptance of his role in the trial, it contrasts with his actual conduct in the trial.

While meetings of collective organs, such as the Politburo, could become very lively, the liveliness always ended when Stalin entered the discussions – he was in total control.

While Heydrich believed they had successfully deluded Stalin into executing or dismissing some 35, 000 of his officer corps, the importance of Heydrich's part is a matter of speculation and conjecture.

While they had initially been mutually supportive, issues arose following the ascendancy of Nikita Khrushchev to power in the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin.

While Trotsky remained firm in his opposition to Stalin after his expulsion from the Party and subsequent exile, Zinoviev and Kamenev capitulated almost immediately and called on their supporters to follow suit.

While Trotsky remained firm in his opposition to Stalin after his expulsion from the Party and subsequent exile, Zinoviev and Kamenev capitulated almost immediately and called on their supporters to follow suit.

While writing a second biography of Stalin in Moscow, Barbusse fell ill with pneumonia, and died on August 30, 1935 He is buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

While Khrushchev, the Communist Party, and the Soviet Union's supporters in the West viewed the Gulag as a deviation of Stalin, Solzhenitsyn and the opposition tended to view it as a systemic fault of Soviet political culture — an inevitable outcome of the Bolshevik political project.

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.

" While meeting with Stalin and Roosevelt in Tehran in 1943, Churchill stated that Britain was vitally interested in restoring Poland as an independent country.

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.

While fairy tales were relatively free from ideological oppression, the realistic children's prose of the Stalin era was highly ideological and pursued the goal to raise children as patriots and communists.

While there were various other theories as to the cause of her death ( murder on the orders of Stalin, or that she was killed by Stalin himself ), it appears Nadezhda Alliluyeva actually committed suicide.

While he criticized Stalin and other communist figures, he also believed that the United States was overreacting to the danger of communism.

While denouncing Stalin, Khrushchev carefully praised the Communist Party, which had the strength to withstand all the negative effects of imaginary crimes and false accusations.

While colloquially, a person may term a law suit to be frivolous if he or she personally finds a claim to be absurd, in legal usage " frivolous litigation " consists of a claim or defense that is presented where the party ( or the party's legal counsel ) had reason to know that the claim or defense was manifestly insufficient or futile.

While he does exclude himself from those who were eyewitnesses to Jesus ' ministry, he repeatedly uses the word " we " in describing the Pauline missions in Acts of the Apostles, indicating that he was personally there at those times.

While the Dutch raid was a major concern in itself, Pepys was personally placed under a different kind of pressure: the Navy Board, and his role as Clerk of the Acts, came under scrutiny from the public and from parliament.

While the incident was an accident and Williams apologized to the woman personally, to all appearances it seemed at the time that Williams had hurled the bat in a fit of temper.

While enormous sums were raised by private individuals and charities ( American Indians sent supplies, while Queen Victoria personally gave the present-day equivalent € 70, 000 ), lack of adequate action let the problem become a catastrophe.

While lampooned in Le Corsaire for its lofty subject matter yet extremely modest proportions ( less than one metre across ), overall the work was warmly received ; so much so that on his return to Paris in June 1841, Ingres was received with all the deference that he felt was his due, including being received personally by King Louis-Philippe for a tour around Versailles.

While all but one justice personally rejected segregation, the self-restraint faction questioned whether the Constitution gave the Court the power to order its end.

While he needed to be personally present in Normandy to defend the realm from foreign invasion and put down internal revolts, he set up royal administrative structures that enabled him to rule England from a distance.

While all but one justice personally rejected segregation, the self-restraint faction questioned whether the Constitution gave the Court the power to order its end, especially since the Court, in several cases decided subsequent to Plessy, had upheld the doctrine of " separate but equal " as constitutional.

While trying to get Clarence a date with Susan, Joe boasts to her that he personally knows a big time music producer who can audition her.

While as governor of New York, Tompkins personally borrowed money and used his own property as collateral when the New York state legislature would not approve the necessary funds for the War of 1812.

While he is theoretically responsible to Hacker personally, it is Sir Humphrey who writes his performance reviews and influences Bernard's Civil Service career.

While pursuing other interests, Burke was also deeply involved in community work, assisting The Crippled Children's Foundation for blind and underprivileged children, while personally being responsible for more than 120 adopted children.

" While Bradley knew Patton personally, it was also well known that the two men were polar opposites in personality, and that Bradley despised Patton both personally and professionally.

While working for the public television network, he became personally involved in the broadcasters ' strike which lasted 68 tumultuous days beginning in late 1958.

While his works say little else about his life, they tell us that he practiced the profession of pharmacy and personally attended to a very large number of customers.

While not personally inclined toward music, Peter saw European music as a mark of civilization and a way of Westernizing the country ; his establishment of the Western-style city of Saint Petersburg helped foster its spread to the rest of the upper classes.

While some members believed the decision to publish the book was prompted by the financial needs of The Mother Church, The Christian Science Board of Directors argued that because Knapp knew Mary Baker Eddy personally and was intimately involved in the workings of the church during her lifetime, his biography presented a valuable historical record.

While remaining aloof from him as a kinsman and doing nothing to embrace him personally or advance him socially, the uncle does give Clyde a job and ultimately advances him to a position of relative importance within the factory.

While no minister is allowed to give orders to agencies personally, they are subject to decisions made by the Government.

While working as a foreign correspondent for the American journal The Living Age, Fry visited Berlin in 1935 and personally witnessed Nazi abuse against Jews on more than one occasion and wanted to help.

While Wilber has been considered an influential writer and theoretician in the field, he has since personally dissociated himself from the movement in favor of what he calls an integral approach.

While most of the actions were carried out by the Ukrainian occupational police, the murder of 53 Polish villagers was perpetrated personally by the Germans, who supervised the operation.