Was stalin a good leader

Biographical Chronicle

J. V. Stalin

Volume 4

(October, 1917 - 1920)

Source : Works, Vol. 3, November, 1917 - 1920
Publisher : Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1953
Transcription/Markup : Salil Sen for MIA, 2009
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October 25-26
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin direct the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.

October 26
The Second Congress of Soviets elects J. V. Stalin a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (A.R.C.E.C.) and appoints him People's Commissar for the Affairs of Nationalities.

Night of October 27
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin visit the headquarters of the Petrograd Military Area and together with military experts work out a plan of operations for routing the Kerensky-Krasnov forces.

October 28
V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin sign the order of the Council of People'

Joseph Stalin

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953

"Stalin" redirects here. For the Indian politician, see M. K. Stalin. For other uses, see Stalin (disambiguation).

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vissarionovich and the family name is Stalin.

Joseph Stalin

Stalin at the Tehran Conference, 1943

In office
3 April 1922 – 16 October 1952[a]
Preceded byVyacheslav Molotov(as Responsible Secretary)
Succeeded byNikita Khrushchev(as First Secretary)
In office
6 May 1941 – 5 March 1953
First Deputy
Preceded byVyacheslav Molotov
Succeeded byGeorgy Malenkov
In office
19 July 1941 – 3 March 1947
PremierHimself
Preceded bySemyon Timoshenko
Succeeded byNikolai Bulganin
In office
8 November 1917 – 7 July 1923
PremierVladimir Lenin
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Born

Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili


18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878
Gori, Rus

Stalin

Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute


Chapter VI

OVERTHROWN by the October Socialist Revolution, the Russian landlords and capitalists began to conspire with the capitalists of other countries for the organization of military intervention against the Soviet Republic, with the aim of defeating the workers and peasants, overthrowing the Soviet regime and once again fastening the chains of slavery on the country. Civil war broke out, accompanied by military intervention. The Soviet Government proclaimed the Socialist fatherland in danger and called upon the people to rise in its defence. The Bolshevik Party rallied the workers and peasants for a patriotic war to defend the country from foreign invaders and the bourgeois and landlord Whiteguards.

In the spring of 1918, the British and French imperialists instigated a revolt of the Czechoslovak Corps (formed of prisoners of war from the Austro-Hungarian army), which, after the conclusion of peace with Germany, was making its way to France via Siberia.

The revolt of the Czechoslovaks, which was timed to coincide with revolts e

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