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Apr 3, 2014 · (1878-1953) Who Was Joseph Stalin? Joseph Stalin rose to power as General Secretary of the Communist Party in Russia, becoming a Soviet dictator after the death of Vladimir Lenin. Stalin...
Joseph Stalin, orig. Ioseb Dzhugashvili, (born Dec. 18, 1879, Gori, Georgia, Russian Empire—died March 5, 1953, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Soviet politician and dictator. The son of a cobbler, he studied at a seminary but was expelled for revolutionary activity in 1899.
Joseph Stalin on a Soviet propaganda poster, 1952; the text translates to “Forward to the victory of communism!”. (more) After the war, Stalin imposed on eastern Europe a new kind of colonial control based on native Communist regimes nominally independent but in fact subservient to himself.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 18 December [ O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who was the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
1907 Man of steel. Joseph marries his first wife Ketevan Svanidze in 1906. She comes from a poor family of minor nobility. Ketevan gives birth to their son Yakov Dzhugashvili the following year.
Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the dictatorial leader of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century, from the late 1920s until his death in 1953.
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.
