Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT ·
Stalin as General Secretary (1922–29)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “The Secretariat”
1922–1929 — From the Central Committee’s offices in Moscow, the General Secretary’s staff appointed and moved party officials across the Union. Local secretaries owed Stalin their posts and voted with him at congresses, which made the dullest job in the leadership the deciding one.
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- Stalin’s rise to power (chapter 1 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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