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2 days ago · Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [f] (born Dzhugashvili; [g] 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
2 days ago · Joseph Stalin - WWII Leader, Soviet Union, Dictator: During World War II Stalin emerged, after an unpromising start, as the most successful of the supreme leaders thrown up by the belligerent nations.
3 days ago · The early life of Joseph Stalin covers the period from Stalin's birth, on 18 December 1878 (6 December according to the Old Style), until the October Revolution on 7 November 1917 (25 October).
5 days ago · Joseph Stalin - Soviet Leader, Dictator, Purges: After Lenin’s death, in January 1924, Stalin promoted an extravagant, quasi-Byzantine cult of the deceased leader. Archpriest of Leninism, Stalin also promoted his own cult in the following year by having the city of Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad (now Volgograd).
2 days ago · Joseph Stalin - Soviet Leader, Dictator, Purges: A politician to the marrow of his bones, Stalin had little private or family life, finding his main relaxation in impromptu buffet suppers, to which he would invite high party officials, generals, visiting foreign potentates, and the like.
2 days ago · Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (/ ˈstɪɡlɪts /; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, [2] a public policy analyst, political activist, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) [3] and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). [4]
4 days ago · The smash-hit London Palladium production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat comes to Plymouth Tue 24 – Sat 28 Jun 2025!
