ABSTRACT
On the 23 March, 1919, Stalin installed himself in his second post. On the following day he celebrated his marriage to Nadiejda Alliloueva at the Moscow registry office. The witnesses were: for the bride, her brother-in-law Redenss, a Polish Communist and a prominent member of the Tcheka, and for Stalin, Abel Iénukidzé, his friend and companion in exile, now secretary of the Central Executive Committee. The defeat of Denikin in the South coincided with an attack delivered by the Poles. The situation was worse than confused. The Civil War and the Sovieto-Polish War were raging over a vast territory, where Ukrainian and Cossack hetmans were clashing with enormous bands of organized pillagers. At the moment when the South-Western front was preparing to receive the main thrust of Pilsudski's armies, Wrangel, who had succeeded to Denikin, made a sortie in force from the Crimea in the direction of Donietz. In the beginning of May 1921 the Poles entered Kiev.
