The Eastern Bloc until 1989
|
Ribbentrop and Stalin at the signing of the Pact
|
Famine in USSR, 1933. Areas of most disastrous famine marked with black.
|
|
The Big Three: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 1945.
|
Ekaterina "Kato" Svanidze, Stalin's first wife
|
Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's second wife
|
British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945.
|
Prior to the revolution of 1917, Stalin played an active role in fighting the tsarist government. Here he is shown on a 1911 information card from the files of the Russian police in Saint Petersburg.[22]
|
Children are digging up frozen potatoes in the field of a collective farm, 1933
|
The Big Three: Stalin, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference, November 1943.
|
Stalin's Grave in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis
|
A group of participants in the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party, 1919. In the middle are Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, and Mikhail Kalinin.
|
Planned and actual territorial changes in Eastern and Central Europe 1939–1940 (click to enlarge)
|
With all the men at the Front, Moscow women dig anti-tank trenches around Moscow in 1941.
|
|
Stalin and Molotov on the signing of the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact with the Empire of Japan, 1941
|
The center of Stalingrad after liberation, February 2, 1943.
|
|
Stalin and Vladimir Lenin in 1919.
|
Victorious Soviet soldiers in Berlin, 1945.
|
Stalin on building of Moscow-Volga canal. It was constructed from 1932 to 1937 by Gulag prisoners.
| | |