National Theatre Poster Archive ... Beauty and the Beast, A Woman Killed with Kindness, The Cat in the Hat, Pains of Youth, …Some Trace of Her, Attempts on her Life, Waves, A Dream Play, Women of Troy, Iphigenia at Aulis, The Seagull, Three Sisters, Ivanov, The Oresteia, The Machine Wreckers and Rutherford and Son. [351] From 1929 to 1930, further show trials were held to intimidate opposition:[352] these included the Industrial Party Trial, Menshevik Trial, and Metro-Vickers Trial. [924] In the 2008 Name of Russia television show, Stalin was voted as the third most notable personality in Russian history. Whereas Lenin believed that all countries across Europe and Asia would readily unite as a single state following proletariat revolution, Stalin argued that national pride would prevent this, and that different socialist states would have to be formed; in his view, a country like Germany would not readily submit to being part of a Russian-dominated federal state. [419] Stalin issued a decree establishing NKVD troikas which could mete out rulings without involving the courts. [68] He called for the Georgian Marxist movement to split from its Russian counterpart, resulting in several RSDLP members accusing him of holding views contrary to the ethos of Marxist internationalism and calling for his expulsion from the party; he soon recanted his opinions. [431] He also initiated "national operations", the ethnic cleansing of non-Soviet ethnic groups—among them Poles, Germans, Latvians, Finns, Greeks, Koreans, and Chinese—through internal or external exile. [684], As a Marxist and an extreme anti-capitalist, Stalin believed in an inevitable "class war" between the world's proletariat and bourgeoise. The Soviets annexed the Baltic states and helped establish Soviet-aligned governments throughout Central and Eastern Europe, China, and North Korea. [927], The only part of the former Soviet Union where admiration for Stalin has remained consistently widespread is Georgia, although Georgian attitude has been very divided. [262] Stalin believed this would encourage independence sentiment among non-Russians, instead arguing that ethnic minorities would be content as "autonomous republics" within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. [646] [432] During these years, approximately 1.6 million people were arrested,[433] 700,000 were shot, and an unknown number died under NKVD torture. [483] The German Wehrmacht pushed deep into Soviet territory;[484] soon, Ukraine, Byelorussia, and the Baltic states were under German occupation, and Leningrad was under siege;[485] and Soviet refugees were flooding into Moscow and surrounding cities. [479] He formed a State Defense Committee, which he headed as Supreme Commander,[480] as well as a military Supreme Command (Stavka),[481] with Georgy Zhukov as its Chief of Staff. [687] He also believed that this proletarian state would need to introduce repressive measures against foreign and domestic "enemies" to ensure the full crushing of the propertied classes,[688] and thus the class war would intensify with the advance of socialism. [548] Stalin was pressed by his allies to enter the war and wanted to cement the Soviet Union's strategic position in Asia. According to Montefiore, theirs was "a true love match";[839] Volkogonov suggested that she was "probably the one human being he had really loved". His gang ambushed the armed convoy in Yerevan Square with gunfire and home-made bombs. [232], In mid-August 1920, the Poles repulsed the Russian advance, and Stalin returned to Moscow to attend the Politburo meeting. [709] Stalin's doctrine held that socialism could be completed in Russia but that its final victory there could not be guaranteed because of the threat from capitalist intervention. [717], Ethnically Georgian,[719] Stalin grew up speaking the Georgian language,[720] and did not begin learning Russian until the age of eight or nine. [2], In 2011 Ostlere appeared in the series premiere of the American television series Game of Thrones, appearing as Night's Watch ranger Waymar Royce. [133] In January 1913, Stalin travelled to Vienna,[134] where he researched the 'national question' of how the Bolsheviks should deal with the Russian Empire's national and ethnic minorities. [346] To promote intensification of labour, a series of medals and awards as well as the Stakhanovite movement were introduced. [447] As it wound down, Stalin sought to deflect responsibility from himself,[448] blaming its "excesses" and "violations of law" on Yezhov. [158] Stalin was required to serve four more months on his exile, and he successfully requested that he serve it in nearby Achinsk. [40] Stalin devoted himself to Marx's socio-political theory, Marxism,[41] which was then on the rise in Georgia, one of various forms of socialism opposed to the empire's governing tsarist authorities. [271] To bolster his image as a devoted Leninist, Stalin gave nine lectures at Sverdlov University on the "Foundations of Leninism", later published in book form. [161] There, Stalin and a fellow Bolshevik Lev Kamenev assumed control of Pravda,[162] and Stalin was appointed the Bolshevik representative to the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, an influential council of the city's workers. [84], In November 1905, the Georgian Bolsheviks elected Stalin as one of their delegates to a Bolshevik conference in Saint Petersburg. [257] Lenin twice asked Stalin to procure poison so that he could commit suicide, but Stalin never did so. The Constituent Assembly was declared dissolved by the Bolshevik-Left SR Soviet government, rendering the end the term served. [512] In February 1943, the German troops attacking Stalingrad surrendered. [691] According to Sandle, Stalin was "committed to the creation of a society that was industrialised, collectivised, centrally planned and technologically advanced. [564], Despite his strengthened international position, Stalin was cautious about internal dissent and desire for change among the population. [350] The first major show trial in the USSR was the Shakhty Trial of 1928, in which several middle-class "industrial specialists" were convicted of sabotage. To eradicate accused "enemies of the working class", Stalin instituted the Great Purge, in which over a million were imprisoned and at least 700,000 executed between 1934 and 1939. [441] He was particularly concerned at the success that right-wing forces had in overthrowing the leftist Spanish government,[442] fearing a domestic fifth column in the event of future war with Japan and Germany. [220], The Bolsheviks won the Russian civil war by the end of 1919. "[921], Amid the social and economic turmoil of the post-Soviet period, many Russians viewed Stalin as having overseen an era of order, predictability, and pride. The tensions that arose between the Soviet-backed Eastern Bloc and U.S.-backed Western Bloc became known as the Cold War. [780], Stalin was ruthless,[781] temperamentally cruel,[782] and had a propensity for violence high even among the Bolsheviks. [618] Across Eastern Europe, the Soviet model was enforced, with a termination of political pluralism, agricultural collectivisation, and investment in heavy industry. [263] Lenin accused Stalin of "Great Russian chauvinism"; Stalin accused Lenin of "national liberalism". Widely considered one of the 20th century's most significant figures, Stalin was the subject of a pervasive personality cult within the international Marxist–Leninist movement, which revered him as a champion of the working class and socialism. [387] The 1931 and 1932 harvests had been poor ones because of weather conditions[388] and had followed several years in which lower productivity had resulted in a gradual decline in output. [606] In November 1948, he abolished the JAC,[631] and show trials took place for some of its members. [731] He rarely spoke before large audiences, and preferred to express himself in written form. It is hard for me to reconcile the courtesy and consideration he showed me personally with the ghastly cruelty of his wholesale liquidations. [235] At the 9th Bolshevik Conference in late September, Trotsky accused Stalin of "strategic mistakes" in his handling of the war. "[323], In 1929, the Politburo announced the mass collectivisation of agriculture,[325] establishing both kolkhozy collective farms and sovkhoz state farms. [52] He continued to evade arrest by using aliases and sleeping in different apartments. Opening in February 2015 at the Public Theater, the show moved to Broadway in the summer of 2015. [676] According to Montefiore, Stalin's embrace of the Russian nation was pragmatic, as the Russians were the core of the population of the USSR; it was not a rejection of his Georgian origins. [673] The doctors who had been imprisoned were released and the anti-Semitic purges ceased. [191], Having dropped his editorship of Pravda,[192] Stalin was appointed the People's Commissar for Nationalities. [801] He was a voracious reader, with a library of over 20,000 books. [227] Along the Southwest Front, he became determined to conquer Lviv; in focusing on this goal he disobeyed orders in early August to transfer his troops to assist Mikhail Tukhachevsky's forces that were attacking Warsaw. [141] Derived from the Russian word for steel (stal),[142] this has been translated as "Man of Steel";[143] Stalin may have intended it to imitate Lenin's pseudonym. In 2006, the Ukrainian Parliament declared it to be such,[904] and in 2010 a Ukrainian court posthumously convicted Stalin, Lazar Kaganovich, Stanislav Kosior, and other Soviet leaders of genocide. [709] Although retaining the Marxist belief that the state would wither away as socialism transformed into pure communism, he believed that the Soviet state would remain until the final defeat of international capitalism. [903] Twenty six countries officially recognise it under the legal definition of genocide. [637], In his later years, Stalin was in poor health. [180], On 26 October 1917, Lenin declared himself chairman of a new government, the Council of People's Commissars ("Sovnarkom"). [196] The decree's purpose was primarily strategic; the Bolsheviks wanted to gain favour among ethnic minorities but hoped that the latter would not actually desire independence. [367] He personally met with a range of Western visitors, including George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells, both of whom were impressed with him. Stalin, Trotsky, Sverdlov, and Lenin lived at the Kremlin. This is what our obligations before the workers and peasants of the USSR dictate to us. [510] This resulted in the protracted Battle of Stalingrad. [294] Stalin in turn accused Kamenev and Zinoviev of reintroducing factionalism — and thus instability — into the party. Two weddings and a funeral ... A Woman Killed with Kindness, National Theatre. [661] Crowds were such that a crush killed about 100 people. Subscribe and get full access to subscriber-only content. [511] In December 1942, he placed Konstantin Rokossovski in charge of holding the city. [826], Friendship was important to Stalin,[827] and he used it to gain and maintain power. [384] Worst affected were Ukraine and the North Caucasus, although the famine also affected Kazakhstan and several Russian provinces. "[547], With Germany defeated, Stalin switched focus to the war with Japan, transferring half a million troops to the Far East. [647] In October 1952, Stalin gave an hour and a half speech at the Central Committee plenum. [182] Stalin became part of an informal foursome leading the government, alongside Lenin, Trotsky, and Sverdlov;[183] of these, Sverdlov was regularly absent and died in March 1919. Malenkov denounced the Stalin personality cult,[911] which was subsequently criticised in Pravda. [171] Lenin returned to Petrograd and secured a majority in favour of a coup at a meeting of the Central Committee on 10 October. [256] Residing at his Gorki dacha, Lenin's main connection to Sovnarkom was through Stalin, who was a regular visitor. We must close that gap in ten years. [899] Wheatcoft and historian R. W. Davies estimate famine deaths at 5.5–6.5 million[900] while scholar Steven Rosefielde gives a number of 8.7 million. [556] Various East European communists also visited Stalin in Moscow. He grew increasingly concerned that senior political and military figures might try to oust him; he prevented any of them from becoming powerful enough to rival him and had their apartments bugged with listening devices. The woman in white. [561] In 1946, the state published Stalin's Collected Works. Woman killed, six injured in stabbings in and around North Vancouver library Matthews scores in OT, Leafs complete comeback to down Oilers 4 … [531] Discussing the fate of the Balkans, later in 1944 Churchill agreed to Stalin's suggestion that after the war, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Yugoslavia would come under the Soviet sphere of influence while Greece would come under that of the West. [712] Ultimately he believed that all nations would merge into a single, global human community,[712] and regarded all nations as inherently equal. [228] On 26 May, Stalin was moved to Ukraine, on the Southwest Front. [458] Stalin saw this as an opportunity both for territorial expansion and temporary peace with Germany. [173] In the early hours of 25 October, Stalin joined Lenin in a Central Committee meeting in the Smolny Institute, from where the Bolshevik coup — the October Revolution — was directed. [156] They arrived in Krasnoyarsk in February 1917,[157] where a medical examiner ruled Stalin unfit for military service because of his crippled arm. [613], Stalin suggested that a unified, but demilitarised, German state be established, hoping that it would either come under Soviet influence or remain neutral. Raisinettes are number three on the list of all time best selling candies. Ostlere graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2008. [475] To demonstrate peaceful intentions toward Germany, in April 1941 the Soviets signed a neutrality pact with Japan. [638] He took increasingly long holidays; in 1950 and again in 1951 he spent almost five months vacationing at his Abkhazian dacha. [834] He was sexually promiscuous, although rarely talked about his sex life. [227], Following earlier clashes between Polish and Russian troops, the Polish–Soviet War broke out in early 1920, with the Poles invading Ukraine and taking Kyiv on 7 May. [66] His second attempt, in January 1904, was successful and he made it to Tiflis. [78] Amid the growing violence throughout Georgia he formed further Battle Squads, with the Mensheviks doing the same. Stalin had called for the Chinese Communists to ally themselves with Kuomintang (KMT) nationalists, viewing a Communist-Kuomintang alliance as the best bulwark against Japanese imperial expansionism. [104] In Baku he had reassembled his gang, the Outfit,[105] which continued to attack Black Hundreds and raised finances by running protection rackets, counterfeiting currency, and carrying out robberies. He argued that Jewish nationalism, particularly Zionism, was hostile to socialism. Instead, the KMT repressed the Communists and a civil war broke out between the two sides. He went on to edit the party's newspaper, Pravda, and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings and protection rackets. [905] Popular among some Ukrainian nationalists is the idea that Stalin consciously organised the famine to suppress national desires among the Ukrainian people. [609] Stalin had a particularly strained relationship with Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito due to the latter's continued calls for Balkan federation and for Soviet aid for the communist forces in the ongoing Greek Civil War. [87] Although Stalin held Lenin in deep respect, he was vocal in his disagreement with Lenin's view that the Bolsheviks should field candidates for the forthcoming election to the State Duma; Stalin saw the parliamentary process as a waste of time. [898] Historian and archival researcher Stephen G. Wheatcroft and Michael Ellman attribute roughly 3 million deaths to the Stalinist regime, including executions and deaths from criminal negligence. Wed 20 Jul 2011 12.07 EDT. [363] The government's anti-religious campaign was re-intensified,[364] with increased funding given to the League of Militant Atheists. [218] He was reprimanded by Lenin at the 8th Party Congress for employing tactics which resulted in far too many deaths of Red Army soldiers. [690] The new state would then be able to ensure that all citizens had access to work, food, shelter, healthcare, and education, with the wastefulness of capitalism eliminated by a new, standardised economic system. [233] In Moscow, Lenin and Trotsky blamed him for his behavior in the Polish–Soviet war. [491] He purged the military command; several high-ranking figures were demoted or reassigned and others were arrested and executed. [565] He was also concerned about his returning armies, who had been exposed to a wide range of consumer goods in Germany, much of which they had looted and brought back with them. [135] Lenin, who encouraged Stalin to write an article on the subject,[136] wanted to attract those groups to the Bolshevik cause by offering them the right of secession from the Russian state, but also hoped they would remain part of a future Bolshevik-governed Russia. [785] He was capable of self-righteous indignation,[786] and was resentful,[787] vindictive,[788] and vengeful, holding onto grievances against others for many years. [11], Besarion was a shoemaker who was employed in a workshop owned by another man;[12] it was initially a financial success but later fell into decline,[13] and the family found itself living in poverty. [326] Stalin barred kulaks from joining these collectives. [550] These events led to the Japanese surrender and the war's end. [428], Repressions further intensified in December 1936 and remained at a high level until November 1938, a period known as the Great Purge. [168] During this raid, Stalin smuggled Lenin out of the newspaper's office and took charge of the Bolshevik leader's safety, moving him between Petrograd safe houses before smuggling him to Razliv. After Stalin's death in 1953, he was eventually succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev, who denounced him and initiated the de-Stalinisation of Soviet society. [502] The Internationale was dropped as the country's national anthem, to be replaced with a more patriotic song. [778] Despite his tough-talking attitude, he could be very charming;[779] when relaxed, he cracked jokes and mimicked others. Hamilton is a musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, inspired by the book Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. The Russian Empire became a de facto republic, headed by a Provisional Government dominated by liberals. [461] On 17 September, the Red Army entered eastern Poland, officially to restore order amid the collapse of the Polish state. [652], Stalin's death was announced on 6 March. [101] In August 1907, he attended the Seventh Congress of the Second International — an international socialist organisation — in Stuttgart, Germany. 1893 class table of Gori Religious School including a photo of Stalin. [309], The Soviet Union lagged behind the industrial development of Western countries,[311] and there had been a shortfall of grain; 1927 produced only 70% of grain produced in 1926. [562] In 1947, it brought out a second edition of his official biography, which eulogised him to a greater extent than its predecessor. [320] In January 1930, the Politburo approved the liquidation of the kulak class; accused kulaks were rounded up and exiled to other parts of the country or to concentration camps. [453] Stalin initiated a military build-up, with the Red Army more than doubling between January 1939 and June 1941, although in its haste to expand many of its officers were poorly trained. Katie Mitchell made her RSC debut with this play twenty years ago, the first time Thomas Heywood’s superb Jacobean domestic tragedy of two disastrous marriages in the English countryside had been seen since John Dexter’s austere and revelatory production (starring Anthony Hopkins and Joan Plowright) for the National at the Old Vic. [255], In May 1922, a massive stroke left Lenin partially paralyzed. [152][153], In Kureika, Stalin lived closely with the indigenous Tunguses and Ostyak,[154] and spent much of his time fishing. [2] He also watched surgery being performed and followed F1 doctors. [671], Stalin claimed to have embraced Marxism at the age of fifteen,[675] and it served as the guiding philosophy throughout his adult life;[676] according to Kotkin, Stalin held "zealous Marxist convictions",[677] while Montefiore suggested that Marxism held a "quasi-religious" value for Stalin. [407] In turn, the anti-communist governments of Germany, Fascist Italy and Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936. [460] A week later, Germany invaded Poland, sparking the UK and France to declare war on Germany. [239], The Soviet government sought to bring neighbouring states under its domination; in February 1921 it invaded the Menshevik-governed Georgia,[240] while in April 1921, Stalin ordered the Red Army into Turkestan to reassert Russian state control. [127] After two months, Stalin and Sverdlov escaped back to Saint Petersburg. [159] Stalin was in the city when the February Revolution took place; uprisings broke out in Petrograd — as Saint Petersburg had been renamed — and Tsar Nicholas II abdicated to escape being violently overthrown. [612] Stalin ordered several assassination attempts on Tito's life and contemplated invading Yugoslavia. [662] The funeral involved the body being laid to rest in Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square on 9 March; hundreds of thousands attended. [357], Stalin desired a "cultural revolution",[358] entailing both creation of a culture for the "masses" and wider dissemination of previously elite culture. [315] At this point, Stalin turned against the NEP, which put him on a course to the "left" even of Trotsky or Zinoviev. [760], Trotsky and several other Soviet figures promoted the idea that Stalin was a mediocrity. [430] That month, Stalin and Yezhov signed Order No. [347] His speeches and articles reflected his utopian vision of the Soviet Union rising to unparalleled heights of human development, creating a "new Soviet person". [796] He protected several Soviet writers, such as Mikhail Bulgakov, even when their work was labelled harmful to his regime. [749] As leader, he rarely left Moscow unless to go to one of his dachas;[750] he disliked travel,[751] and refused to travel by plane. "Today was the bloodiest day since the coup happened on the 1st of February. In 1939, it signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, resulting in the Soviet invasion of Poland. [292] In 1925, the two moved into open opposition to Stalin and Bukharin. [489] In June 1941, he ordered a scorched earth policy of destroying infrastructure and food supplies before the Germans could seize them,[490] also commanding the NKVD to kill around 100,000 political prisoners in areas the Wehrmacht approached. [124], In May 1912, he was arrested again and imprisoned in the Shpalerhy Prison, before being sentenced to three years exile in Siberia. [116] He escaped to Saint Petersburg,[117] where he was arrested in September 1911 and sentenced to a further three-year exile in Vologda. [348], In 1928, Stalin declared that class war between the proletariat and their enemies would intensify as socialism developed. [715] According to Khlevniuk, Stalin reconciled Marxism with great-power imperialism and therefore expansion of the empire makes him a worthy to the Russian tsars. [757] In 1934, his new Kuntsevo Dacha was built; 9 km from the Kremlin, it became his primary residence. [814] As an infant, Stalin displayed a love of flowers,[815] and later in life he became a keen gardener. He added: "Let us today start to do something good, kindness to someone else, that is the way we can enjoy our life and share this planet in peace together." [440] His motives in doing so have been much debated by historians. [742] He was a lifelong smoker, who smoked both a pipe and cigarettes. [436] These purges replaced most of the party's old guard with younger officials who did not remember a time before Stalin's leadership and who were regarded as more personally loyal to him. [251] At the 11th Party Congress in 1922, Lenin nominated Stalin as the party's new General Secretary. [527] There, Stalin and Roosevelt got on well, with both desiring the post-war dismantling of the British Empire. [398] A number of authorised Stalin biographies were also published,[399] although Stalin generally wanted to be portrayed as the embodiment of the Communist Party rather than have his life story explored. [392] Stalin would not acknowledge that his policies had contributed to the famine,[381] the existence of which was kept secret from foreign observers. [169] In Lenin's absence, Stalin continued editing Pravda and served as acting leader of the Bolsheviks, overseeing the party's Sixth Congress, which was held covertly. [243] In taking this view, some Marxists accused him of bending too much to bourgeois nationalism, while others accused him of remaining too Russocentric by seeking to retain these nations within the Russian state. [823] Service cautioned that there was "no irrefutable evidence" of anti-Semitism in Stalin's published work, although his private statements and public actions were "undeniably reminiscent of crude antagonism towards Jews";[824] he added that throughout Stalin's lifetime, the Georgian "would be the friend, associate or leader of countless individual Jews". [685] He believed that the working classes would prove successful in this struggle and would establish a dictatorship of the proletariat,[686] regarding the Soviet Union as an example of such a state. [317] At his command, grain procurement squads surfaced across Western Siberia and the Urals, with violence breaking out between these squads and the peasantry. Churchill was concerned that this was the case and unsuccessfully tried to convince the U.S. that the Western Allies should pursue the same goal. [137], Stalin's article Marxism and the National Question[138] was first published in the March, April, and May 1913 issues of the Bolshevik journal Prosveshcheniye;[139] Lenin was pleased with it. [129] Stalin returned to Saint Petersburg, where he continued editing and writing articles for Pravda. [806] Stalin also enjoyed watching films late at night at cinemas installed in the Kremlin and his dachas. [524] Stalin scarcely left Moscow throughout the war,[525] with Roosevelt and Churchill frustrated with his reluctance to travel to meet them. [322] By July 1930, over 320,000 households had been affected by the de-kulakisation policy. [38] Another influential text was Alexander Kazbegi's The Patricide, with Stalin adopting the nickname "Koba" from that of the book's bandit protagonist. [219] In November 1919, the government nonetheless awarded him the Order of the Red Banner for his wartime service. [435] In May, this was followed by the arrest of most members of the military Supreme Command and mass arrests throughout the military, often on fabricated charges. [741] From mid-1918 until his death he favoured military-style clothing, in particular long black boots, light-coloured collarless tunics, and a gun. Initially Stalin refused to repeal the Sino-Soviet Treaty of 1945, which significantly benefited the Soviet Union over China, although in January 1950 he relented and agreed to sign a new treaty between the two countries. [473] He increasingly focused on appeasement with the Germans to delay any conflict with them. [886], Leninists remain divided in their views on Stalin; some view him as Lenin's authentic successor, while others believe he betrayed Lenin's ideas by deviating from them. [812] When at social events, he encouraged singing,[813] as well as alcohol consumption; he hoped that others would drunkenly reveal their secrets to him. 227 in July 1942, which directed that those retreating unauthorised would be placed in "penal battalions" used as cannon fodder on the front lines. [925] Polling by the Levada Center suggest Stalin's popularity has grown since 2015, with 46% of Russians expressing a favourable view of him in 2017 and 51% in 2019. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). [670] Economic reform scaled back the mass construction projects, placed a new emphasis on house building, and eased the levels of taxation on the peasantry to stimulate production. 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