Biography
Joseph Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian ethnicity. He ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and the nation's Premier from 1941 to 1953. Initially presiding over an oligarchic one-party system that governed by plurality, he became the de facto dictator of the Soviet Union by the 1930s. Ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin helped to formalise these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies became known as Stalinism.
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Awards & recognition
- Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic · 1949
- Order of Lenin · 1949
- Order of Sukhbaatar · 1949
- honorary citizen of Budapest · 1948
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" · 1947
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- Collar of the Order of the White Lion · 1945
- Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945 · 1945
- Gold Star medal · 1945
- Hero of the Soviet Union · 1945
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" · 1945
- Medal "For the Victory over Japan" · 1945
- Medal "For the Victory over Japan" of Mongolia · 1945
- Order of Lenin · 1945
- Order of Sukhbaatar · 1945
- Order of Victory · 1945
- Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" · 1944
- Order of the Red Banner · 1944
- Order of Victory · 1944
- Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945 · 1943
- Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" · 1943
- Order of Suvorov, 1st class · 1943
- Order of the Republic · 1943
- Time Person of the Year · 1942
- "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal · 1939
- Hero of Socialist Labour · 1939
- Order of Lenin · 1939
- Time Person of the Year · 1939
- Order of the Red Banner · 1930
- Order of the Red Star · 1922
- Order of the Red Banner · 1919
- honorary citizen of České Budějovice
- honorary citizen of Chrudim
- honorary citizen of Prague
- Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
- Order of the Red Banner
- Order of the White Lion
- Nobel Peace Prize · 1948 · nominated
- Nobel Peace Prize · 1945 · nominated
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A Web of War
The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
Apocalypse: The Second World War
Apocalypse: D-Day
The Vietnam War
The Real Spies Among Friends
Greatest Events of WWII in Colour
Stalin's Last Plot
Iran: The Hundred Year War
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Korea: The Never-Ending War
Churchill at War
1945: The Savage Peace
The Untold History of the United States
World War II in Colour
The Corporation
Storm Front in Mayo
When the Wind Blows
How to Become a Tyrant
Big Data, Big Brother
Apocalypse: Stalin
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
The Soviet Story
Crusade in Europe
Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku
FDR
Orwell: 2+2=5
The Bloody Hundredth
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Capitalism: A Love Story
Equilibrium
Sputnik Mania
The UnXplained
Stalin's James Bond
Imminent Threat
State Funeral
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
American Experience
The Russian Revolution
A Compassionate Spy
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Reagan
The Long Breakup
Cannibal Island
The Girls
The Chosen
Mission to Moscow
Capsule
CIA vs KGB: Battleground Berlin
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris