Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT ·
Stalinabad (Dushanbe) (1929)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Stalinabad”
1929 — Dushanbe, a market village that became capital of the new Tajik SSR, was renamed Stalinabad. The map of the Union filled with such names: Stalinsk, Stalinogorsk, Stalinir, Stalino and Stalin Peak among them.
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- Stalin’s cult of personality (chapter 8 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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