Josef Stalin – Biographical information from Henze-Digital

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Stalin in 1932 (Source: Wikimedia)

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December 18, 1878 in Gori (Šida K̕art̕li)
†

March 5, 1953 in Kunzewo (Moskau)
Politiker

Iconography

Stalin in 1932 (Source: Wikimedia)

Stalin ("I. Dzhugashvili") in an 1893 class photo (Source: Wikimedia)

Police photo of Stalin, 1902 (Source: Wikimedia)

Stalin first met Vladimir Lenin at a 1905 conference in Tampere, Finland. (Source: Wikimedia)

Mugshot of Stalin made in 1911 (Source: Wikimedia)

First issue of Pravda, of which Stalin served as an early editor (Source: Wikimedia)

Stalin in 1915 (Source: Wikimedia)

Stalin in 1917 as a young People's Commissar (Source: Wikimedia)

Stalin in 1920 (Source: Wikimedia)

Stalin wearing his Order of the Red Banner in 1921 (Source: Wikimedia)

From left to right: Stalin, Alexei Rykov, Lev Kamenev, and Grigory Zinoviev in 1925. All three later fell out with Stalin and were executed during the Great Purge. (Source: Wikimedia)

Stalin and his close associates Anastas Mikoyan and Sergo Ordzhonikidze in Tbilisi, 1925 (Source: Wikimedia)

Aleksei Stakhanov with a fellow miner. Stalin's government initiated the Stakhanovite movement in order to encourage hard work.[241] (Source: Wikimedia)

1931 demolition of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow in order to make way for the planned Palace of the Soviets (Source: Wikimedia)

Map of areas affected by the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 (Source: Wikimedia)

Review of Soviet armoured vehicles used to equip the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War (Source: Wikimedia)

Exhumed mass grave of the Vinnytsia massacre, 1943 (Source: Wikimedia)

Memorial to a victim of the Great Purge at the Bykivnia mass grave (Source: Wikimedia)

Stalin receives flowers from Engelsina Markizova, 1936. The girl's father was later executed in the Great Purge.[345] (Source: Wikimedia)

Stalin greeting German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at the Kremlin, August 1939 (Source: Wikimedia)

With all the men at the front, women dig anti-tank trenches around Moscow in 1941 (Source: Wikimedia)

The centre of Stalingrad after its liberation, February 1943 (Source: Wikimedia)

The Big Three: Stalin, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference, November 1943 (Source: Wikimedia)

Soviet soldiers in Polotsk, July 1944 (Source: Wikimedia)

British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945 (Source: Wikimedia)

Banner of Stalin in Budapest in 1949 (Source: Wikimedia)

Stalin at his 70th birthday celebration with (left to right) Mao Zedong, Nikolai Bulganin, Walter Ulbricht and Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, 1949 (Source: Wikimedia)

Eastern Bloc during the Cold War (Source: Wikimedia)

1950 Chinese stamp depicting Stalin and Mao shaking hands, commemorating the signing of the new Sino-Soviet Treaty (Source: Wikimedia)

Decree dated 20 January 1953 awarding Lydia Timashuk the Order of Lenin for "unmasking doctors-killers". Revoked after Stalin's death later that year. (Source: Wikimedia)

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Hans Werner Henze's network of artists. Digital letter edition, https://henze-digital.zenmem.de/A0001320 (Version 6.1.0 of November 30, 2024)
Last change of this document on October 28, 2024

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