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Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union's leader during World War II (called the Great Patriotic War by the Soviets), came to power after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. In 1937-38, he purged his military of many of its best officers, and he was considered a harsh and brutal tyrant. The purge also extended to the intelligentsia.
May 23, 2018 · Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia, a part of czarist Russia's empire in western Asia. (A czar is a ruler who exercises unlimited power over the people.) His father, a former serf (member of a servant class who works the soil), was a shoemaker, and his mother was a domestic servant.
Joseph Stalin's rise to power. Joseph Stalin started his career as a radical student, becoming a robber, gangster [1] as well as an influential member and eventually the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He served as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet ...
Joseph Stalin. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) (Name in Georgian იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი; Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин) was a Georgian-born Russian revolutionary and politician who ...
Nov 16, 2009 · Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union since 1924, dies in Moscow. Ioseb Dzhugashvili was born in 1878 in Georgia, then part of the old Russian empire. The son of a drunk who beat him ...
Svetlana Alliluyeva (born February 28, 1926, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died November 22, 2011, Richland county, Wisconsin) was the Russian-born daughter of Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin; her defection to the United States in 1967 caused an international sensation. She was Stalin’s only daughter and a product of his second marriage with Nadezhda ...
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) The man who turned the Soviet Union from a backward country into a world superpower at unimaginable human cost. Stalin was born into a dysfunctional family in a poor ...
