Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT ·
Stalin’s 50th birthday in Pravda (1929)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Pravda, 21 December 1929”
21 Dec 1929 — For Stalin’s fiftieth birthday, Pravda filled its pages with tributes from the leadership, and the public cult of the vozhd (“leader”) began. The paper later serialised the Short Course (1938) and staged the sixtieth and seventieth birthdays on a grander scale.
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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