Mussolini in Italy, Stalin in Russia, Franco in Spain, Tōjō in Japan and Hitler in Germany – all presided over harsh, brutal regimes. [832] While head of the Soviet Union he remained in contact with many of his old friends in Georgia, sending them letters and gifts of money. [650], On 1 March 1953, Stalin's staff found him semi-conscious on the bedroom floor of his Volynskoe dacha. [680] The historian Alfred J. Rieber noted that he had been raised in "a society where rebellion was deeply rooted in folklore and popular rituals". After growing up in Georgia, Stalin became a political activist, conducting discreet activities for the Bolshevik Party for twelve years before the Russian Revolution in 1917. [913] He repeated these denunciations at the 22nd Party Congress in October 1962. [279] Stalin also developed close relations with the trio at the heart of the secret police (first the Cheka and then its replacement, the State Political Directorate): Felix Dzerzhinsky, Genrikh Yagoda, and Vyacheslav Menzhinsky. "[865] These deaths occurred as a result of collectivisation, famine, terror campaigns, disease, war and mortality rates in the Gulag. [145], In February 1913, Stalin was arrested while back in Saint Petersburg. I found him better informed than Roosevelt, more realistic than Churchill, in some ways the most effective of the war leaders. [474] After the Tripartite Pact was signed by Axis Powers Germany, Japan, and Italy in October 1940, Stalin proposed that the USSR also join the Axis alliance. When the Bolsheviks managed to capture power in 1917, Stalin was released from prison to take up the post of Secretary General of the Central Committee in 1922. [518] Soviet military industrial output also had increased substantially from late 1941 to early 1943 after Stalin had moved factories well to the east of the front, safe from German invasion and aerial assault. After this, prominent Bolsheviks were concerned about who would take over if Lenin actually died. [193] He took Nadezhda Alliluyeva as his secretary[194] and at some point married her, although the wedding date is unknown. [33] Nikolai Yezhov continued to expand the lists of suspects to include all the old oppositionists as well as entire nationalities, such as the Poles.[34]. [878] Dmitri Volkogonov characterised him as "one of the most powerful figures in human history. [395], In 1935–36, Stalin oversaw a new constitution; its dramatic liberal features were designed as propaganda weapons, for all power rested in the hands of Stalin and his Politburo. [933] In a 2016 Kyiv International Institute of Sociology poll, 38% of respondents had a negative attitude to Stalin, 26% a neutral one and 17% a positive, with 19% refusing to answer. [178] According to the historian Oleg Khlevniuk, Stalin "filled an important role [in the October Revolution]... as a senior Bolshevik, member of the party's Central Committee, and editor of its main newspaper";[179] the historian Stephen Kotkin similarly noted that Stalin had been "in the thick of events" in the build-up to the coup. Kirov was assassinated by Leonid Nikolayev, on 1st December, 1934. For this reason, he retained the Leninist view that world revolution was still a necessity to ensure the ultimate victory of socialism. None of these persons would survive Stalin; all died of suspected assassinations.[5]. In short, Stalin's power over appointment is commonly understood not only as a key factor in his rise to power, but also as the origin of his personalistic dictatorship. [796] He protected several Soviet writers, such as Mikhail Bulgakov, even when their work was labelled harmful to his regime. [492] With Order No. [184] Stalin's office was based near to Lenin's in the Smolny Institute,[185] and he and Trotsky were the only individuals allowed access to Lenin's study without an appointment. On 1 December 1934, Sergei Kirov was murdered by Leonid Nikolaev. [704] In the personality cult constructed around him, he was known as the vozhd, an equivalent to the Italian duce and German fuhrer. [93] In March 1907 she bore a son, Yakov. [88] In April 1906, Stalin attended the RSDLP Fourth Congress in Stockholm; this was his first trip outside the Russian Empire. 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