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    Great Construction Projects of Communism (Russian: Великие стройки коммунизма) is a phrase that is used to identify a series of the most ambitious construction...
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    general term also included the Great Construction Projects of Communism. The first Komsomol shock construction project was announced for the blast furnace...
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  • 1965, the projects were mostly abandoned after the death of Stalin in 1953. Environment of Russia Great Construction Projects of Communism Northern river...
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    part of a massive postwar effort known as the Great Construction Projects of Communism, it was authorized by Joseph Stalin signing the Council of Ministers...
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    Yakov Dzhugashvili (category Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner)
    S. 18 March] 1907 – 14 April 1943) was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months...
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  • – 2 November 2008) was a Russian cardiologist and a grandson of Joseph Stalin. The son of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, Iosif was seven years...
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    The Great Terror: A Reassessment. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195317008. Courtois, Stéphane (1999). The Black Book of Communism: Crimes...
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    Vasily Stalin (category Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 3rd class)
    Pauker frequently travelled out of the Soviet Union and would bring back gifts to the younger Stalin, though during the Great Purge his foreign nationality...
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    Nadezhda Alliluyeva (category Communist Party of the Soviet Union members)
    September] 1901 – 9 November 1932) was the second wife of Joseph Stalin. She was born in Baku to a friend of Stalin, a fellow revolutionary, and was raised in...
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    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...
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    Stalinism (redirect from Official communism)
    society of what it saw as threats to itself and its brand of communism (so-called "enemies of the people"), which included political dissidents, non-Soviet...
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  • Artyom Sergeyev (category Soviet prisoners of war)
    was thrice Cavalier of the Order of the Red Banner, Order of Alexander Nevsky, twice Order of the Patriotic War, twice Order of the Red Star. Hearst...
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    Svetlana Alliluyeva (category American people of Georgian (country) descent)
    simply as another student. Several other relatives of Alliluyeva were killed in the aftermath of the Great Purge, including her aunt Anna, and Anna's husband...
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  • role of the Russian people in the construction of socialist society and the victory over the enemies of humanity, over German fascism in the Great Patriotic...
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    build communism in 20 years. Historian Archie Brown wrote that the program was "the last authoritative document produced by the Communist Party of the Soviet...
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    Kato Svanidze (category Wives of Joseph Stalin)
    the ranks of the Communist Party. Her sister Mariko also moved to Moscow and worked as secretary to Avel Enukidze. In 1937, during the Great Purge, Mariko...
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  • the former town of Kuntsevo) (then in Moscow Oblast, now part of Moscow's Fili district), where he lived for the last two decades of his life and died...
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    Lysenkoism (category Politics of the Soviet Union)
    them from her". Kliment Timiryazev, a popularizer of science in Russia, had sympathies with communism, and allied with the new Soviet republic. This made...
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  • Galina Dzhugashvili (category Russian people of Georgian descent)
    27 August 2007) was a Russian translator of French. She was the granddaughter of Joseph Stalin, the daughter of Stalin's elder son, Yakov Dzhugashvili....
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    Lenin's Testament (category Documents of the Soviet Union)
    JSTOR 4288968. Daniels, Robert V. (October 1, 2008). The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia. Yale University Press. p. 438. ISBN 978-0-300-13493-3. Bullock...
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  • maintaining support for the ideals of communism. The speech was shocking in its day. There are reports that some of those present suffered heart attacks...
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    dacha Lake Ritsa dacha Sukhumi dacha, amid the Sukhumi arboretum (now part of the Sukhumi botanical garden) Miusera dacha He also used to stay in (former...
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    Nazino tragedy (category Incidents of cannibalism)
    French historian Nicolas Werth, who earlier co-authored The Black Book of Communism, published the book Cannibal Island about the affair in 2006. It was...
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    (Speech). Meeting of 81 Communist and Workers' Parties. Moscow – via Marxists Internet Archive. Leslie Holmes (27 August 2009). Communism: A Very Short Introduction...
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    subjected to purges by Joseph Stalin. The Great Purge ended in 1939. In October 1940 the NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs), under its new chief...
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    Staff of the United States Army, and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, USN (standing behind Roosevelt). Monument to "Bolshaya troika" (The Great Three)...
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  • doi:10.1353/kri.2005.0001. Project MUSE 179628. Medvedev 2003, pp. 238–239 Rubenstein, Joshua (1976). The Last Days of Stalin. Yale Publishing House...
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  • De-Stalinization (category Politics of the Soviet Union)
    supported communism before the revolution, many of whom Stalin had executed as traitors. Khrushchev also attacked the crimes committed by associates of Beria...
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    William Wesley Peters (category University of Evansville alumni)
    structural designs of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City and for the laboratory tower at Johnson Wax, among many other projects. He and Taliesin...
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    Jughashvili (c. 1850 – 25 August 1909) was the father of Joseph Stalin. Born into a peasant family of serfs in Didi Lilo in Georgia, he moved to Tbilisi...
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