WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -As war leader, Stalin maintained close personal control over the Soviet battlefronts, military reserves, and war economy. At first over-inclined to intervene with inept telephoned instructions, as Hitler did, the Soviet generalissimo gradually learned to delegate military decisions.

Detailed explanation-2: -He began building his totalitarian state by destroying his real and imagined enemies. They controlled riots and monitored telephones lines, read mail, and planted informers everywhere.-A campaign of terror was started under the name of Great Purge directed at eliminating anyone who threatened his power.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Russian dictator during World War II. He was infamous for his brutality before, during and after the War.” Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s leader during World War II (called the Great Patriotic War by the Soviets), came to power after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. He was a harsh and brutal tyrant.

Detailed explanation-4: -After being elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee in April 1917, Stalin helped Lenin to evade capture by authorities and ordered the besieged Bolsheviks to surrender to avoid a bloodbath. The Bolsheviks then seized Petrograd and Stalin was appointed People’s Commissar for Nationalities’ Affairs.