... of the Red Army counterattack. During the same year, 1919, Stalin was married for the second time. His second wife was named Nadya Allilueva; she had been serving as his secretary (and had accompanied him to Volgograd the previous year). She was seventeen when they married, and Stalin was 39 ... 's proposal, which eventually became the basis for the new "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", was to allow the outlying provinces some degree of self-rule and their own governments (although they were not to be fully independent). Of course, when Stalin assumed total control over the Soviet Un...

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... him the Central Committee. This brief swell of dissent only shows how egregiously people still misunderstood the nature of Stalin's rule. For in his mind, there was no question of his primacy: he was to be first, period; there was no room for dissent in his regime. Thus Stalin made ... the U.S.S.R. the following year. The Soviets applied similar pressure to Finland, which had been a Grand Duchy under the rule of the Tsars; but the Finns resisted, however, and in November of 39 Stalin ordered an invasion. He expected a quick, easy war, but amid wintry conditions the Red Army (which had, a...

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... of the Red Army counterattack. During the same year, 1919, Stalin was married for the second time. His second wife was named Nadya Allilueva; she had been serving as his secretary (and had accompanied him to Volgograd the previous year). She was seventeen when they married, and Stalin was 39 ... 's proposal, which eventually became the basis for the new "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", was to allow the outlying provinces some degree of self-rule and their own governments (although they were not to be fully independent). Of course, when Stalin assumed total control over the Soviet Un...

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