Joseph Stalin
Soviet chronicle devoted to Joseph Stalin (1879—1953), Soviet Communist leader and head of the USSR from the death of V. Lenin (1924) until his own death. Stalin was the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party since 1922. Following the death of Vladimir Lenin, prevailed over Leon Trotsky in a power struggle during the 1920s and brutally consolidated his authority with the Great Purge, a period of severe repression which reached its peak in 1937. Under Stalin the Soviet Union was transformed a peasant society to a major world industrial power by the end of the 1930s. But the political and cultural aims of Stalin's regime based on Marxist–Leninist ideology were to identify the totalitarian rule of the Communist party stability and legitimacy.
Filmed is Stalin speeches in Supreme Soviet, children glorifying the Soviet leader while he is applauding on the mausoleum tribune on the Red Square. Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill on the Yalta Conference (1945). His diplomatic skill led to the recognition by the Western powers of Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.
B/W footage of Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, a Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet the USSR and talking to Stalin.
The chronicle also shows scenes of the Stalingrad in 1942 where the decisive battle of World War II took place (guns shooting, captive German soldiers etc.)
