Stalin, Joseph

[ (stah-lin, stal-in) ]

A Soviet political leader of the twentieth century. Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, often with extreme brutality, from the death of Lenin in the early 1920s until his own death in the early 1950s. His policies of collectivization, which abolished private ownership, were followed by political purges in which thousands of Communist party officials were killed, usually on trumped-up charges of treason. (See Stalin's purge trials.) Stalin led the Soviet Union in its costly victory in World War II; the country again lost huge numbers. President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain met with Stalin in 1945 to produce the Yalta agreement. Stalin's expansion of Soviet influence after World War II contributed to the cold war.

Words nearby Stalin, Joseph

Stalinabad, Stalingrad, Stalingrad, Battle of, Stalinism, Stalinist, Stalin, Joseph, Stalinogrod, Stalin Peak, Stalinsk, Stalin's purge trials, stalk

单词	stalin, joseph
释义	Stalin, Joseph [ (stah-lin, stal-in) ] A Soviet political leader of the twentieth century. Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, often with extreme brutality, from the death of Lenin in the early 1920s until his own death in the early 1950s. His policies of collectivization, which abolished private ownership, were followed by political purges in which thousands of Communist party officials were killed, usually on trumped-up charges of treason. (See Stalin's purge trials.) Stalin led the Soviet Union in its costly victory in World War II; the country again lost huge numbers. President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain met with Stalin in 1945 to produce the Yalta agreement. Stalin's expansion of Soviet influence after World War II contributed to the cold war. Words nearby Stalin, Joseph Stalinabad, Stalingrad, Stalingrad, Battle of, Stalinism, Stalinist, Stalin, Joseph, Stalinogrod, Stalin Peak, Stalinsk, Stalin's purge trials, stalk The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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