Nikolai Bulganin
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin was a Russian politician and the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958. He also served as Minister of Defense, following service in the Red Army during World War
Bulganin in 1953
Bulganin in 1937
Bulganin (third from right) watching a football match in 1935
Bulganin and Khrushchev in India
Joseph Stalin
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Joseph Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Sov
Nikolai Bulganin
…Party elected Bulganin as a candidate member of the Central Committee. A loyal Stalinist, he was promoted rapidly as other leaders fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge in 1937 and 1938. In July 1937, Bulganin was appointed Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (the equivalent of Prime Minister…
Stalin at the Tehran Conference in 1943
Police photo of Stalin, 1902
First issue of Pravda, of which Stalin served as an early editor
Stalin in 1917 as a young People's Commissar