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    Joseph Stalin

    Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953

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  1. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [g] [h] [i] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; [d] 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.

  2. 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...

  3. Sep 10, 2018 · Here are 10 facts about Joseph Stalin. 1. Smallpox as a child left him with lasting scars and a deformity. Born into poverty in 1879 to an alcoholic cobbler father and washerwoman mother, Stalin caught smallpox at the age of seven and was left with pockmarks on his face and a slightly deformed left arm.

  4. 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.

  5. Last years. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. May 23, 2018 · Died March 5, 1953. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Soviet revolutionary and political leader. J oseph Stalin took control of the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), the force behind the October revolutions of 1917 that established the Soviet regime.

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