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nounRussian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
Definition that contains stalin
- khrushchev Soviet statesman and premier who denounced Stalin (1894-1971)
- trotsky Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940)
- stalinist of or relating to Joseph Stalin or his times
- stalinist a follower of Stalin and Stalinism
- zhukov Soviet general who during World War II directed the counteroffensive at Stalingrad and relieved Leningrad and captured Berlin (1896-1974)
- yalta a resort city in Crimea in the southern Ukraine on the Black Sea; site of the Allied conference between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in February 1945
- koestler British writer (born in Hungary) who wrote a novel exposing the Stalinist purges during the 1930s (1905-1983)
- beria Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin; was executed by his associates in the power struggle following Stalin's death (1899-1953)
- yevtushenko Russian poet who expressed the feelings of the post-Stalinist generation (born in 1933)
- nikolai ivanovich bukharin Bolshevik leader in Russia who advocated gradual collectivism of the farms; was executed in a purge by Stalin (1888-1938)