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This is the documentary story of the man who subverted the Russian Revolution: born in 1879 in Georgia, a region colonized by Russia at the beginning of the 19th century; studied for the priesthood but soon abandoned piety for insurrection and agitation. By the time of the Revolution, his unique skills had emerged: to be in the right place at the right time and leave the speechifying to others while accumulating political power behind the scenes....
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At the military parade in Red Square in Moscow on November 7, 1941, Supreme Commander Joseph Stalin urged Soviet soldiers to regard themselves as "liberators" in the fight against the Germans. After suffering heavy losses to the German army in October, the Soviet army was able to push the Germans back in early December. This was the first major defeat for the Germans during World War II.
6) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin Meet at the Tehran Conference ca. 1943
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In November 1943, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Russian premier Joseph Stalin met in Tehran to pledge support against Nazi Germany. The Tehran Conference marked the first summit meeting of the "Big Three" during World War II.
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Three months prior to the surrender of Germany during World War II, leaders from the "Big Three" Allied nations - the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union - met at the Yalta Conference to discuss the future of Poland, Germany, and the remainder of eastern Europe after the end of the war. Russian premier Joseph Stalin also reaffirmed the promise he had made at the Tehran Conference in 1943 - that once Germany had been defeated, the Soviet...
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"Drawing on ambitious new research in European and U.S. archives, Stalin's War revolutionizes our understanding of World War II by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler's genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, the war that emerged in Europe in August 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, was the Pacific war of 1941-1945 the direct result of Stalin's maneuverings, which he orchestrated to unleash...
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"The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but...
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“One of the finest, most gripping surveys of the history of Russian science in the twentieth century.” —Douglas Smith, author of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
Stalin and the Scientists tells the story of the many gifted scientists who worked in Russia from the years leading up to the revolution through the death of the “Great Scientist” himself, Joseph...
Stalin and the Scientists tells the story of the many gifted scientists who worked in Russia from the years leading up to the revolution through the death of the “Great Scientist” himself, Joseph...
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"Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly different Allied leaders--aligned to win World War II and created a new world order. By the end of World War II, 59 nations were arrayed against the axis powers, but three great Allied leaders--Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--had emerged to control the war in Europe and the...
14) Josef Stalin
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This book profiles the life of Joseph Stalin, who was a tyrannical dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 until 1953 and whose rule was characterized by fear.
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"From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy, The Nazi Conspiracy tells the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of the second World War. In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt wanted one thing: a face-to-face meeting with his allies Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. This meeting of the...
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From the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact to the launch of Operation Barbarossa, this program explores in detail the efforts of Hitler and Stalin to outwit each other during the so-called period of cooperation lasting from August 1939 to June 1941-and how their mutual distrust wrong-footed them both, with disastrous results for their countries. Numerous quotations from the dictators are included, as well as readings from the diaries of Joseph Goebbels,...
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Behind the smokescreen of the massive Anglo-American/Soviet pincer movement that would inevitably crush the German war effort, Churchill and Stalin were locked in a grim struggle of wills to set the terms that would decide the immediate future of postwar Europe-a contest in which victory was tipped to the U.S.S.R. through the secret intervention of President Roosevelt. This program reveals the details, supported by readings from the diaries of Sir...