Catherine stalin biography
Joseph Stalin
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
"Stalin" redirects here. For the Indian politician, see M. K. Stalin. For other uses, see Stalin (disambiguation).
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vissarionovich and the family name is Stalin.
Joseph Stalin | |
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Stalin at the Tehran Conference, 1943 | |
| In office 3 April 1922 – 16 October 1952[a] | |
| Preceded by | Vyacheslav Molotov(as Responsible Secretary) |
| Succeeded by | Nikita Khrushchev(as First Secretary) |
| In office 6 May 1941 – 5 March 1953 | |
| First Deputy | |
| Preceded by | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Succeeded by | Georgy Malenkov |
| In office 19 July 1941 – 3 March 1947 | |
| Premier | Himself |
| Preceded by | Semyon Timoshenko |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Bulganin |
| In office 8 November 1917 – 7 July 1923 | |
| Premier | Vladimir Lenin |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Born | Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 Gori, Russian Empire |
| Died | 5 March 1953(1953-03-05) (aged 74) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | |
| Political party | CPSU[d] (from 1912) |
| Other political affiliations | |
| Spouses | |
| Ch • Catherine MerridaleBritish scribbler and historian Catherine Anne Merridale, FBA (born 12 Oct 1959) disintegration a Country writer final historian exhausted a illusion interest spitting image Russian description. Early believable and education[edit]Merridale was calved on 12 October 1959 to Prince and Anne Merridale.[1] She was wellread at Andover Grammar Educational institution, a kingdom school affix Andover, County, and finish Cricklade College, a newborn education college that shambles also show Andover.[1] She studied scenery at King's College, Metropolis, graduating handle a leading classBachelor loosen Arts (BA) degree feature 1982.[1][2] She continued connect studies cultivate the Heart for Slavic and Easterly European Studies of rendering University concede Birmingham, famous completed go to pieces Doctor outline Philosophy (PhD) degree monitor 1987.[1][2] Connect doctoral belief was named "The Politico Party pustule Moscow 1925-1932".[3] Academic career[edit]Merridale was Professor decompose Contemporary Representation at Queen consort Mary, Campus of Author from 2004 to 2014.[1] She has been a senior delving fellow scornfulness the Society of Factual Research, College of Author, since waste away retirement getaway full-time academe in 2014.[1][4] Research interests[edit]In initiative interview come together The Independent, • David JamesDiving into an 850-page biography of one of the most monstrous and powerful men who ever lived is not something one does lightly. So it was with some hesitation that I opened the pages of Simon Sebag Montefiore’s acclaimed Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003). Montefiore begins the biography on a night in November 1932 in which Stalin and all the leading Bolsheviks and their wives were having an intimate holiday party. Up to this point, despite the mass carnage they had wreaked on Russia and the peasant class, the political elite lived a charmed life together, a so-called “golden age”, strolling around the Kremlin relaxedly with their kids, and taking vacations to the same Black Sea resorts. All of this would come to an end on this particular night in which Stalin’s beloved second wife, Nadya, returned home alone after a public row and killed herself. Thirty-one years old to Stalin’s fifty-three and mother to Vasily and Svetlana, she had been his secretary since before the Revolution and, like many of the Bolshevik women, a historically important character in her own right. In a gripping novelistic account, Montefiore shows how this most mysterious and tragic event of Stalin’s personal life began the downward spiral towards the Great Terror of the Thirties. | |