1. Stalin
In the June of 1918, Stalin left Moscow (the new capital) and arrived in Volgograd (which, incidentally, would later be renamed Stalingrad) with a new job: "Director General of Food Supplies in the South of Russia". ... Stalin proved quite successful in this role, delivering large quantities of food from the lower Volga to Moscow and markedly improving the local railroad network. ... Before the winter of 1918, Stalin had been recalled to Moscow by Lenin. ... Stalin was in Siberia until February, when he returned to Moscow after failing to do much to stop the advance (and after heavily criti...
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