Georgian People by Religion - Georgian Christians, Georgian Jews, Georgian Muslims, Georgian Atheists, Joseph Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 170. Not illustrated. Chapters: Georgian Christians, Georgian Jews, Georgian Muslims, Georgian Atheists, Joseph Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Recep Tayyip Erdo an, Badri Patarkatsishvili, Boris Akunin, Aslan Abashidze, Roman Dzindzichashvili, History of the Jews in Abkhazia, Davit Kezerashvili, Temur Iakobashvili, Astrix, Boris Dekanidze, David Baazov, Tamir Sapir, Alexander Svanidze, Ali Mirza of Kakheti, Gerzel Baazov, Efraim Gur, Yona Kosashvili, Yusef Khan-E Gorji, History of the Jews in South Ossetia, Shalom Koboshvili, Congregation of Georgian Jews, Yitzhak Gagula, Avraham Michaeli, Itska Rizhinashvili, Lezgishvili. Excerpt: Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Georgian or in Russian patronymic nomenclature Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; 18 December 1878 5 March 1953) was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union. Stalin launched a command economy, replacing the New Economic Policy of the 1920s with Five-Year Plans and launching a period of rapid industrialization and economic collectivization. The upheaval in the agricultural sector disrupted food production, resulting in widespread famine, such as the catastrophic Soviet famine of 19321933, known in Ukraine as the Holodomor. During the late 1930s, Stalin launched the Great Purge (also known as the "Great Terror"), a campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery; he extended it to the military and other sectors of Soviet society. Targets were often executed, imprisoned in Gulag labor camps or exiled. In the years which followed, millions of members of ethnic minorities were also deported. In 1939, after failed attempts...