stalin

• Eigenname für den sowjetischen Politiker Josef Stalin, der Lenin als Parteichef der Kommunistischen Partei nachfolgte und eine totalitäre Herrschaft errichtete.

A proper noun referring to a Russian political leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and established a totalitarian regime through the elimination of opposition.

unzählbar · Eigenname

1. Soviet political leaderB2formal

   Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, known for his role in industrializing the country and leading it through World War II, as well as for establishing a repressive totalitarian regime.

   Sowjetischer politischer Führer

   • Stalin's policies transformed the Soviet Union into a major world power.
   • The era of Stalin's rule is often referred to as the Stalinist period.
   • Historians continue to debate Stalin's impact on the 20th century.