Semyon Budyonny
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Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny was a Soviet cavalryman, military commander during the Russian Civil War, Polish-Soviet War and World War II, and politician, who was a close political ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Budyonny in 1943
Budyonny in 1912
Kliment Voroshilov, Budyonny, Mikhail Frunze and Nikolai Bukharin with the 1st Cavalry Army in Novomoskovsk, 1921
Semyon Budyonny celebrates International Women's Day at the House of Unions on March 8, 1924.
Joseph Stalin
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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who was the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Stalin initially governed the country as part of a collective leadership before consolidating power to become a dictator by the 1930s. Stalin coined the term Marxism–Leninism to outline his Leninist interpretation of Marxism, also known as Stalinism.
Stalin in 1943
In 1894, Stalin began his studies at the Tiflis Theological Seminary (pictured here in the 1870s).
Police photograph of Stalin, taken in 1902
Stalin first met Vladimir Lenin at a 1905 conference in Tampere, in the Grand Duchy of Finland. Lenin became "Stalin's indispensable mentor".