Stalin's first government
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Stalin's first government was created on 7 May 1941 and was dissolved on 15 March 1946, with the creation of Stalin's second government. It was the government throughout the Great Patriotic War.
Joseph Stalin official portrait
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
Stalin's first government
…Date formed 7 May 1941 (1941-05-07) Date dissolved 15 March 1946 (1946-03-15) People and organisations Head of state Mikhail Kalinin Head of government Joseph Stalin Deputy head of government Vyacheslav Molotov No. of ministers 56 Member party All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) Status in legislature One Party…
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