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Section sizes
Section size for Joseph Stalin (42 sections)
Section name Byte
count
Section
total
(Top) 13,745 13,745
Early life 1,760 1,760
In Lenin's government 120 20,714
1917–1918: Consolidating power 4,919 4,919
1918–1921: Military command 7,404 7,404
1921–1923: Lenin's final years 8,271 8,271
Consolidation of power 67 36,690
1924–1927: Succeeding Lenin 8,253 8,253
1927–1931: Dekulakisation, collectivisation, and industrialisation 132 13,088
Economic policy 7,064 7,064
Cultural and foreign policy 5,892 5,892
1932–1939: Major crises 35 15,282
Famine 3,624 3,624
Ideological and foreign affairs 3,776 3,776
The Great Terror 7,847 7,847
World War II 154 23,336
1939–1941: Pact with Nazi Germany 6,226 6,226
1941–1942: German invasion 7,425 7,425
1942–1945: Soviet counter-attack 6,799 6,799
1945: Victory 2,732 2,732
Post-war era 19 29,367
1945–1947: Post-war reconstruction and famine 6,318 6,318
1947–1950: Cold War policy 4,858 14,766
Eastern Bloc 5,061 5,061
Asia 4,847 4,847
1950–1953: Final years 2,921 8,264
Death, funeral and aftermath 5,343 5,343
Political ideology 5,220 5,220
Personal life and characteristics 4,696 25,235
Personality 13,341 13,341
Relationships and family 7,198 7,198
Legacy 8,385 15,037
Death toll 3,545 3,545
In the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states 3,107 3,107
See also 138 138
Explanatory notes 58 58
References 15 28,524
Citations 34 34
Bibliography 80 28,475
Academic books and journals 18,072 18,072
Magazines, newspapers and websites 10,323 10,323
External links 11,509 11,509
Total 211,333 211,333

Warfarin poisoning

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I know this topic was already broached a few years ago on the TP. Currently the article states that "According to a report published in The New York Times, Stalin was poisoned with warfarin by his own Politburo members." While this story is supported by some medical sources (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524003/), another more recent medical analysis published in 2023 claims that "It appears highly unlikely that Stalin was poisoned by warfarin or a similar class of anti-coagulant." (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10105823/) It might be worth pointing out that the Warfarin theory is at least disputed, although perhaps this is best left to the "Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin" page. 2A00:23C7:9992:E701:8814:AAAD:270:C5D8 (talk) 21:33, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think this should all be moved to the Death article.--Jack Upland (talk) 03:10, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The NYT report actually only teasers the book Stalin's Last Crime by Brent and Naumov. So at least the thesis should be correctly attributed to those two authors. Assayer (talk) 09:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support a move to the Death article. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 13:20, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Should the "death cause" in the infobox be kept? It seems worth mentioning. SavagePanda845 (talk) 22:48, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Typo found, June 2024

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"he rarely left Moscow unless to go a dacha for holiday" to go to a dacha, right?

Under personal life and characteristics.

Fixed; thank you. Antandrus (talk) 17:52, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Too long

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The too long tag has been there a year; it's 20,000 words readable prose size. With Winston Churchill, it's the highest profile article that is too long - WP:Article Size. There are different ways of trimming but it needs to be trimmed. Most or all of the main child/sub articles have been set-up already so it's simply a case of summarising them here, Tom B (talk) 09:07, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Moved paragraphs to relevant pages and trimmed content to be a little more precise. Abc747 (talk) 15:58, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Abc747, thanks for that, but please don't remove the tag just yet - more is needed still. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:18, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, sorry, just trying to be helpful! Abc747 (talk) 17:28, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yall should make an article series on lenin, stalin, and krushchev

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Brezhnev, gorbachev have one. why not these three? theyre more nottable than brezhenv and goirbachev 108.27.60.251 (talk) 15:52, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]