Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

Standard Name: Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich
Used Form: Josef Stalin

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politics Beatrice Webb
The trip (with another taken by Sidney in 1934) reversed the Webbs' previous opinions of Soviet communism, which they had hitherto (before rising mass unemployment and increasing de-regulation destroyed their faith in the potential improvement...
politics Rosita Forbes
RF 's patriotism has been called in question, however, not so much because she spent much of the war in North America and the Caribbean, but because early in the war she chose to...
Publishing Rose Tremain
RT 's second book, an illustrated life of Josef Stalin , appeared in 1975 in the same series.
Reception Anna Akhmatova
However, her poetry was publicly denounced in July this year, and in August the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union imposed a ban on the journals Zvezda (The Star) and Leningrad...
Residence Phyllis Bottome
Back in England from a Europe distraught and obsessed between Hitler and Mussolini , with Stalin waiting in the wings,PB was disturbed at finding in Londoneasy nonchalance about Hitler's anti-semitism.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Goal. Faber and Faber.
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Textual Features Gillian Slovo
When Irina returns as a bit-part heroine from facing death in the Arctic, Boris finds her a job as housekeeper to his friend Anton Antonovich, a university intellectual, who has taken in a destitute orphan...
Textual Features Rose Allatini
The protagonist here, Franz Ferdinand Ebermann of the London firm of Fawcett and Ebermann, is another Jew with a far-flung family. His Viennese cousins and their ilk, professors' daughters or bank managers' widows or proprietors...
Textual Features Ursula K. Le Guin
The essays here examine many of her own writing practices and her feelings and opinions about her art. As well as introductions to individual novels the book collects pieces with such intriguing titles as Why...
Textual Features Bernice Rubens
This novel begins arrestingly as the twentieth century opens, in a village in old Russia. Baby Anna Larionov is born the grand-daughter of a count who, troubled by political unrest and calls for reform...
Textual Features Bernice Rubens
A huge cast of peripheral characters enables the book to move occasionally outside Russia: Berlin before the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 is vividly described. Later, cold-war America becomes a shadowy presence when the most...
Textual Features Christina Stead
The protagonist couple in this novel are both US Communists in the 1940s. Stephen Howard is an Ivy-League-educated child of privilege; his wife, Emily Wilkes, who says she comes from Hix-on-the-Stix, is an exuberant...
Textual Production Anna Akhmatova
Relieved from the burden of the Stalin era, AA now began engaging with young writers in poetry readings and literary discussions, so much so as to become a living proof that literature was still alive.
Textual Production Hannah Arendt
HA 's On Revolution explored the unfolding of the American and the French Revolutions, and the nature of Marxist theory, its translation into revolutionary action, and its distortion under Stalin into totalitarianism.
“Books and Authors”. The New York Times.
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Textual Production Mary McCarthy
Together with a group of Communist sympathisers who nonetheless abhorred the rule of Joseph Stalin (who included her current lover, Philip Rahv ), MMC issued a new first, resurrected issue of the defunct left-wing literary...
Textual Production Anne Enright
Her research for this novel touched on many different nineteenth-century cultures. She read a study of French prostitutes and sex advice for young American couples. She read about dictators: accounts of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos

Timeline

May 1945: In what has become known as the Nuremberg...

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May 1945

In what has become known as the Nuremberg trials, leaders from the Allied countries (particularly the Big Four: Churchill , De Gaulle , Stalin , and Truman , who had succeeded to Roosevelt the...

5 March 1946: Winston Churchill made a famous speech in...

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5 March 1946

Winston Churchill made a famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he described an iron curtain coming down across Europe, dividing the east from the west.

February 1948: In what was then Czechoslovakia the Czech...

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February 1948

In what was then Czechoslovakia the Czech Communist Party achieved a majority in what had been a coalition government, and instituted hardline Stalin ist rule.

5 March 1953: Joseph Stalin, long-time ruler of the USSR,...

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5 March 1953

Joseph Stalin , long-time ruler of the USSR, died of a stroke; his body was embalmed, and lay in state for three days, during which time crowds massed to view their former leader.

23 December 1953: On orders from Nikita Krushchev, Lavrenty...

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23 December 1953

On orders from Nikita Krushchev , Lavrenty Beria (former head of Stalin 's NKVD ) was shot dead in secret by a firing squad. He was cremated and his ashes dispersed by a fan.

14-25 February 1956: The Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist...

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14-25 February 1956

The Twentieth Congress of the SovietCommunist Party sowed the seeds of de-Stalinization. It opened with a report from Khrushchev critical of Stalin , and closed with his revelation of some selected truths about Stalin's regime.

25 February 1956: The Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist...

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25 February 1956

The Twentieth Congress of the SovietCommunist Party ended with a speech by Nikita Khrushchev , which mentioned for the first time some of Stalin 's political assassinations and general repression.

April 1956: Nikita Khrushchev made another important...

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April 1956

Nikita Khrushchev made another important speech reflecting a change in Soviet opinion about the legacy of Joseph Stalin .

1962: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the...

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1962

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the first of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 's novels about the Soviet Russian system of forced-labour camps, was published in the cautiously reform-minded journal Novy Mir.

4 December 2008: Investigators from the office of the Russian...

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4 December 2008

Investigators from the office of the Russian general prosecutor confiscated hard drives containing the archives compiled by the human rights and research centre Memorial , housed at St Petersburg.

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