Joseph Stalin: The Dictator of the USSR Contributor(s): Hour, The History (Author) |
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ISBN: 1980936870 ISBN-13: 9781980936879 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $10.44 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2018 |
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BISAC Categories: - History | Historical Geography |
Series: Great Biographies |
Physical Information: 0.26" H x 5" W x 7.99" (0.28 lbs) 110 pages |
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Publisher Description: Initially presiding over an oligarchic one-party regime that governed by plurality, Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili became the de facto dictator of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin raised funds for Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings, and protection rackets. Repeatedly arrested, he underwent several internal exiles. Inside you'll read about
And much more To eradicate those regarded as "enemies of the working class", Stalin instituted the "Great Purge" in which over a million were imprisoned and at least 700,000 were executed from 1934 to 1939. In 1939 Stalin's government signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. Germany ended the pact by invading the Soviet Union in 1941. The Soviet Red Army halted the German incursion and captured Berlin in 1945, ending World War II in Europe. |