Definition of Stalin

1. Noun. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953).


Definition of Stalin

1. Proper noun. Joseph Stalin, Bolshevik revolutionary, dictator of the Soviet Union. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Stalin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lenin's Legacy: The Story of the Cpsu by Robert G. Wesson (1978)
"stalin took the lead in breaking it up simply by ceasing to consult with the ... stalin still had the advantage, however, that few discerned in him the ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"All sixteen deal with stalin; and the majority has stalin's name in the ... "stalin as the Successor to the Work of Lenin," "stalin as the Leader of the ..."

3. The Cold War in Asia by Cold War International History Project (1996)
"stalin decided not to disregard completely the GMD initiative, but to offer Soviet mediation in case the Chinese government accepted those harsh ..."

4. Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual Odyssey of Bertram D. Wolfe by Bertram David Wolfe, Robert Hessen (1990)
"stalin got into the habit of postponing the congresses until he had settled the issues they were supposed to examine. He presented them with faits accomplis ..."

5. Estonia and the Estonians by Toivo U. Raun (2001)
"13 The Post-stalin Era, — 1953-1985 Although the Soviet system did not fundamentally alter in the three decades after 1953, the post-stalin era witnessed ..."

6. Okhrana: The Paris Operations of the Russian Imperial Police by Ben B. Fischer (1999)
"But most of the revolutionaries had the same problem, and quite a few of them moved around much more than stalin. Especially for the Social Democrats, ..."

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