Stalin

Definition: Stalin

Stalin

Noun

1. Russian Soviet leader; succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Stalin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)

Synonyms: Stalin

Crosswords: Stalin

Spanish (Stalin).

Roosevelt sold us out to Joe Stalin at Gibraltar. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Joseph Stalin once said, if one person dies it's a tragedy. (FearDotCom; writing credit: Josephine Coyle)

Joseph Stalin, Michael Bolton, you get the picture! (Ready to Rumble; writing credit: Steven Brill)

'53 Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev (We Didn't Start The Fire; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Sai cosa faceva Stalin alle donne? (1968)

Processo a Stalin (1963)

NBC White Paper: The Death of Stalin (1963)

The Death of Stalin (1963)

Vom Zaren bis zu Stalin (1962)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Unquiet Ghost : Russians Remember Stalin (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• From the Czar to Stalin (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Group photograph of the "Big Three" heads of government at Potsdam, Germany, circa 28 July -- 1 August 1945. Those present are (from left to right): British Prime Minister Clement Atlee; U.S. President Harry S. Truman; Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Credit: NAVY.

The "Big Three" pose with their principal advisors, at Potsdam, Germany, circa 28 July -- 1 August 1945. The three heads of government are (seated, left to right): British Prime Minister Clement Atlee; U.S. President Harry S. Truman; Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Standing behind them are (left ot right): Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, USN, Truman's Chief of Staff; British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin; U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes; Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Credit: NAVY.

Earl, we're together at last, just like our chiefs, Stalin and der Fuehrer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Joe Stalin never had casualties like this. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. Stalin revolutionizes the drama / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rahime Bistika, a picked woman-worker of the "Stalin" textile plants in Tirana ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Official pictures of meeting of Stalin, Churchill, Harriman. These are the first official pictures released in the United States of the recent meetings of Premier I.V. Stalin, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britai. Credit: Library of Congress.

Royal Oak, Michigan. Elderly woman with a copy of Social justice saying "World revolution urdered by Stalin!". Credit: Library of Congress.

Herr Adolf Hitler and Huey S. ("Hooey") Long versus Josef Stalin and Benito Mussolini. Credit: Library of Congress.

John D. Rockefeller Senior versus Josef Stalin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I have a strong admiration and regard for the valiant Russian people and for my wartime comrade, Marshal Stalin. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Georgia

Approximately 275,000 so-called "Akhiskha" or "Meskhetian Turks," relocated from southern Georgia to Central Asia by Stalin in the 1940's, face official and public opposition to their return. (references)

Kazakhstan

Other persons, including ethnic Kazakhs who are not considered refugees from the Stalin era, such as the descendants of Kazakhs who moved to Mongolia during the previous century, must apply for permission to return. (references)

Uzbekistan

The population includes large numbers of ethnic Tajiks, Kyrgyz and Kazakhs; as well as ethnic Koreans, Meskhetian Turks, Germans, Greeks and Crimean Tartars deported to Central Asia by Stalin during World War II. Russians and other Slavs also are well represented. (references)

Economic History

Greece

Yugoslavia closed its borders to the insurgent forces in 1949, after Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia broke with Stalin and the Soviet Union. (references)

Hungary

Forced industrialization and land collectivization soon led to serious economic difficulties, which reached crisis proportions by mid-1953, the year Stalin died. (references)

Kyrgyzstan

Many aspects of the Kyrgyz national culture were retained despite the suppression of nationalist activity under Stalin, and, therefore, tensions with the all-Union authorities were constant. (references)

Human Rights

Lithuania

Government rehabilitation of over 50,000 persons charged with anti-Soviet crimes during the Stalin era led to reports in 1991 that some persons who allegedly were involved with crimes against humanity during the Nazi occupation had benefited from this rehabilitation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "Stalin": joseph stalin. Additional references.

Beginning with "Stalin": stalin-era, stalin-gothic, Stalin-hitler, stalin-trotsky.

Ending with "Stalin": Hitler-stalin, post-stalin.

Russian 

сталин. (various references)

Spanish

Stalin. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "Stalin": staling. (additional references)

Words containing "Stalin": pedestaling. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stalin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Estalia, estalian, Etelin, Salbin, Salin, Shalini, Stadlen, stalic, Tsirlin. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: instal.

-1 letter: alist, anils, antis, lints, litas, nails, saint, satin, slain, slant, snail, stain, tails, tains.

-2 letters: ails, ains, aits, alit, alts, anil, anis, anti, ants, lain, last, lati, lats, lins, lint, list, lits, nail, nils, nits, sail, sain, salt, sati, sial, silt, slat, slit, snit, tail, tain, tali, tans, tils, tins.

-3 letters: ail, ain.

+1 letter: catlins, elastin, entails, install, instals, lasting, latinos, lattins, nailset, nastily, plaints, ratlins, saintly, salient, saltine, salting, slainte, slating, staling, talions, tenails, tincals.

+2 letters: ailments, alations, alienist, aliments, alpinist, alunites, annalist, anthills, antilogs, antislip, antlions, blasting, castling, catlings, displant, elastins, elations, entrails, fantails, fatlings, finalist, gelatins, genitals, handlist, implants, inflates, initials, insolate, instable, installs, insulant, insulate, inthrals, lanitals, lankiest, lanosity, lastings, lathings, latrines, litanies, lunatics, lutanist, manliest, melanist, misplant, nailsets, nasality, nautilus, nuptials, panelist, pantiles, pintails, plainest, platinas, platings, ptyalins, quintals, ratlines, retinals, salients, salinity, saltines, saltings, saluting, santalic, scantily, sibilant, simulant, slanting, slatings, slatting, smaltine, solating, solation, stabling, stalking, stalling, stallion, staminal, stapling, starling, stealing, stillman, stunsail, sultanic, tailfans, tailings, tailspin, talisman, talkings, toenails, tonsilar, trenails, unplaits, valiants, ventails.