Noun: Stalin staa-lin
- Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
"he died in a purge by Stalin";
- Joseph Stalin, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Derived forms: Stalins
Type of: commie [informal], commo [informal], communist, red [informal]
Encyclopedia: Stalin, Bulgaria