What did Joseph Stalin have to do with the Cold War?

Joseph Stalin played a big role in the Cold War. Near the end of World War II, he began to violate some of the agreements that were made with the other Allied countries. For example, Stalin violated the Declaration of Liberated Europe. read more

Joseph Stalin in Causes of the Cold War . BACK; NEXT ; Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the leader of the Soviet Communist Party from 1922 until his death in 1953. Following the death of V.I. Lenin, the first leader of Soviet Russia, Stalin managed to win complete control of the party, ruling as a dictator for the next thirty years. read more

Joseph Stalin and World War II In 1939, on the eve of World War II, Joseph Stalin and German dictator Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) signed a nonaggression pact. Stalin then proceeded to annex parts of Poland and Romania, as well as the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. read more