The end of this man's rule included the Night of the Murdered Poets, and he invented the fictitious Doctor's Plot. His policies caused the holodomor f
The end of this man's rule included the Night of the Murdered Poets, and he invented the fictitious Doctor's Plot. His policies caused the holodomor famine in the Ukraine, and this liquidator of the kulaks was denounced in a "Secret Speech" by Khruschev. This developer of Five-Year Plans and "socialism in one country" drove out Leon Trotsky. For 10 points, name this Soviet leader who instigated the Great Purge and fought Hitler in World War II after succeeding Lenin.
The end of this man's rule included the Night of the Murdered Poets, and he invented the fictitious Doctor's Plot.
Joseph {Stalin} [or Iosif Vissarionovich {Dzhugashvilli}; or Ioseb Besarionis dze {Jughashvili}]