In 1895, at the age of 17, Stalin's work impressed the noted poet Ilia Chavchavadze, who published five of them in his journal, Iveria, attributed to the pseudonym Soselo.
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Stalin's poems have been translated into English by Donald Rayfield.
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Czechoslovakia withdrew from the tournament when it became obvious that their President, Klement Gottwald, was going to die from pneumonia he contracted at Stalin's funeral.
The demonstrators went down the main Tbilisi thoroughfare, Rustaveli Avenue, to Lenin Square, stopping at the House of Government and then at the City Hall, chanting the slogan "Long Live Great Stalin! Long Live the Party of Lenin and Stalin! Long Live Soviet Georgia!", accompanied by the cacophony of car sirens and horns.
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The center of the protests was the republic's capital, Tbilisi, where spontaneous rallies to mark the third anniversary of Stalin's death and to protest Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin quickly evolved into an uncontrollable mass demonstration and rioting which paralyzed the city.
Akhmed Zakayev was born in the settlement of Kirovskiy, in the Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, which is now in Almaty Province, in Kazakhstan; his family was deported by Stalin's regime along with the rest of the Chechens in 1944.
Alligator Pie, first published in 1974, is a popular book of children's poetry written by Dennis Lee and illustrated by Frank Newfeld.
In May 1928, Maslow and Fischer resigned from the Leninbund, because they disagreed with the Leninbund’s support of an independent candidate opposed to the KPD, and after the capitulation of Zinoviev and Kamenev who were opposed to Stalin, anticipated the hope (in vain) of being accepted again into the KPD.
Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era, (New York: Random House, 1999) ISBN 0-679-45724-0 - See Vassiliev Notebook "Black Notebook", Page 75.
However, he said that it should never be displayed in a museum as no Iraqi would want to see it, but it could perhaps be held in a private museum like Hitler or Stalin memorabilia.
During the existence of the Communist Party of Thailand, books pertaining to Communism and Socialism (references to Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, or Mao Zedong) and it associated publications e.g. the Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital were banned – even to the extent of not using and/or teaching it in social sciences courses or to sociology majors.
At the 20th Party Congress, Stalin's reign was criticised as the "personality cult".
Ford's series of "Impossible Interviews" for Vanity Fair magazine featured ill-assorted celebrities, among them Stalin vs. John D. Rockefeller, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes vs. Al Capone, Sigmund Freud vs. Jean Harlow, Sally Rand vs. Martha Graham, Gertrude Stein vs. Gracie Allen, Adolf Hitler vs. Huey Long.
Later she appeared in Kannada films like Bhadra and Gajendra while also appearing as an Item girl in Bachchan and Bloody Isshq, before getting a big break to play Salman Khan's ladylove in Sohail Khan's Jai Ho, a remake of the Telugu film Stalin.
This began in 1962, with the reverting everything that was named after Stalin: Brașov (which had been named Orașul Stalin), two raions in Bucharest, 23 national companies, 28 local companies, 26 agricultural cooperatives, 5 schools, 285 socio-cultural institutions (hospitals, clubs, stadiums, etc.) and 541 avenues, streets and parks.
The Russian scholar Pavel Polian in 2001 published an account of the deportations during the Soviet era, Against Their Will, Polian's study detailed the Soviet statistics on the employment of German civilian labor during the Stalin era.
The side ones feature images of two Parades on the Red Square, the left one of Soviet athletes and the right of the Soviet Military, which featured a portrait of Stalin being carried, and like the bas-relief in the Central Hall, this was removed in 1961 and then carefully replaced with an image of Yuri Gagarin.
She also recorded music for the soundtrack of "L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin!", a documentary film directed by her husband and frequent collaborator Strom.
However, according to Stalin biographer Robert Service, Stalin regretted allowing himself the ostentatious military title, and asked Winston Churchill to continue to refer to him as a marshal instead.
Kostyrchenko was pronounced "Man of the Year 5762" by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia for his book "Тайная политика Сталина. Власть и антисемитизм" (Stalin's Secret Politics. Power and anti-Semitism).
He directed a pro-Stalin film, International (Интернационал), the following year and after a meeting with Stalin and Maxim Gorky, he embarked on making the first Soviet musical, Jolly Fellows, starring Leonid Utyosov and Lyubov Orlova, whom Aleksandrov would later marry.
Constructed between 1934 and 1938 based on plans by Alexey Shchusev, it is an example of Stalin's Empire style.
Many cells were created, among them the "J. Stalin" (Forlì), "Red Vesuvio" (Naples), "Mao Zedong" (Milan) and "Mao" (Enna) have headquarters.
This work discusses Konev's taking of Berlin, Prague, his work with Marshal Georgi Zhukov, Stalin, his field meeting with General Omar Bradley and Jascha Heifetz.
"Stalin as Prime Minister: Power and the Politburo," in Sarah Davies and James Harris, Stalin: A New History, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 83-107.
Boritt's 2007 film "Budapest to Gettysburg" explored the story of his father Professor Gabor Boritt, a world renowned Lincoln and Civil War scholar who returned to Hungary to find his roots in the tyranny of Hitler and Stalin.
The township of Hansen was originally named Stalin after Joseph Stalin, but was renamed in 1986 when Ontario MPP Yuri Shymko successfully had a private member's bill passed through the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to rename the township in honour of athlete Rick Hansen, who was in the midst of his international Man in Motion tour at the time.
They say that Stalin has faced a lot of hardship since 1975 when he was jailed under MISA.
One entitled Romantist - The Stalin, Michiro Endo Tribute Album, which features bands such as Buck-Tick, Dir en grey, Group Tamashii and Jun Togawa covering The Stalin and Endo's solo songs.
Soviet participation in the Spanish Civil War was greatly influenced by the growing tension between Stalin and Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany and an avid supporter of the fascist forces of Francisco Franco.
After Stalin's death in March 1953, the head of Soviet intelligence and security services Lavrentiy Beria issued an order to close the cases against the "Zionist plotters" and all were released, including Sofia.
This monument by sculptor Nikolay Andreyev depicted Gogol in a state of depression and originally (from 1909) stood on the northern tip of Gogolevsky Boulevard but, apparently due to Stalin's dislike of this depiction, was relocated in 1951 to its current place.
No Names on the Doors is the third film in director Levitan's trilogy about Israeli kibbutzim, following An Intimate Story (1981) and Stalin's Disciples (1986).
In 1946 he started publishing his memoirs in three volumes (En vandrande jude från Glasbruksgatan, Återkomsten, and Gästboken) and he invited Margarete Buber-Neumann to write there Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler.
Coetzee, J.M. "Osip Mandelstam and the Stalin Ode", Representations, No.35, Special Issue: Monumental Histories.
The most popular account of the story is as follows: born to poor peasants in Gerasimovka, a small village 350 kilometers north-east of Yekaterinburg (then known as Sverdlovsk), Morozov was a dedicated communist who led the Young Pioneers at his school, and a supporter of Stalin's collectivization of farms.
Comrade Stalin said: "We hate Nazi not because they are Germans, but because they brought enormous suffering to our land".
According to Partisan Review co-editor William Barrett's "The Truants: Adventures Among the Intellectuals", the Marxist Rahv had a healthy contempt for "Liberals", whom he viewed as appeasers of Joseph Stalin's post-World War II Soviet Union.
In 1996 Whymant wrote a book about German spy Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Spy: Richard Sorge and the Tokyo Ring.
Solomon Mikhoels, the chairman of JAC and Epshtein approached Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister and a Stalin henchman, with an idea to create a Jewish republic in the Crimea or in the Volga area (in place of the dismantled Volga Germans republic).
The death of Joseph Stalin in the 1950s leads to an ideological crisis on a kibbutz that identifies with communist principles.
They suspected that the snub was revenge for his inadvertent causing of a diplomatic incident between Pope Pius XII and Joseph Stalin in 1950, when he revealed Pius's private belief that communism was likely to collapse and his views on Stalin, during a press conference after a papal audience.
Stalin had a great interest in semi-automatic infantry rifles, and in 1935 a design competition was held.
Following Stalin's death in 1953, its lyrics were modified by Vacys Reimeris to remove reference to the former dictator.
Nevertheless, some historians maintain their original, higher estimates, among them Stalin biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore, Perestroika architect and former head of the Presidential Committee for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, and the director of Yale's "Annals of Communism" series Jonathan Brent, putting the death toll at about 20 million.
In 1993, being interviewed by Theo Uittenbogaard in the TV documentary GOLD lost in Siberia, he remembered that he was released from exile temporarily and flown in to Yalta for a few hours, because Winston Churchill, being unaware of Kozin's forced exile, had asked Stalin for the famous singer Vadim Kozin to perform, during a break in the Yalta Conference, held February 4– February 11, 1945.
In film My Best Friend, General Vasili, Son of Joseph Stalin, Vasili Stalin is portrayed by actor Vladimir Steklov.
In 1928, he left the Soviet Russia and went to Harbin, China, where many White Russians lived at that time, and again lived through wars and different political regimes, first creating works dedicated to Nicholas II, then to Stalin and Mao Zedong.
Attila and Genghis Khan now ride exultingly next to Stalin’s armies over the Eastern plains, they appear as the Horsemen of the Apocalypse in fiery skies during the nights of bombing.
Yuri Kara became known in Russia with his movies Thieves within the Law (1988) and The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin (1990), and with his conflict with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) which was caused by his film The Prize is a Trip into Space, based on the novel Cassandra's Brand written by the Russian author Chinghiz Aitmatov.