🌍ap world history: modern review

Stalin

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union who established totalitarian communist rule and implemented policies including the Great Purge.

AP course connection

Topic 7.1: 7.1 Shifting Power After 1900

Unit 7