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  1. 3 days ago · Joseph Stalin, the controversial Soviet leader, wielded absolute power and implemented policies that transformed the USSR into a global superpower while leaving behind a legacy of repression and millions of lives lost.

    • Lenin's Successor

      Joseph Stalin - Soviet Leader, Dictator, Purges: After...

    • Legacy

      Joseph Stalin - Soviet Leader, Dictator, Purges: A...

    • Role in World War II

      Joseph Stalin - WWII Leader, Soviet Union, Dictator: During...

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      Joseph Stalin, orig. Ioseb Dzhugashvili, (born Dec. 18,...

  2. 2 days ago · Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin[f] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; [g] 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

  3. 5 days ago · Stalin died a slow, angry, and painful death on March 5, 1953. He had suffered a stroke after retiring on the night of March 1–2, but this was not perceived until the morning because of his concern for personal security.

  4. 5 days ago · Joseph Stalin - Soviet Leader, Dictator, Purges: After Lenin’s death, in January 1924, Stalin promoted an extravagant, quasi-Byzantine cult of the deceased leader.

  5. 2 days ago · However, research by Russian historian Tatyana Pavlova calculated there to be 710,000 inhabitants in the city on 23 August, and of that amount, 185,232 people had died by the battle's conclusion, and including about 50,000 in the rural areas of Stalingrad, for a total of 235,232 civilians dead. [ 285 ]

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  6. 3 days ago · He became one of the Bolsheviks ' chief operatives in the Caucasus, organizing paramilitaries, spreading propaganda, raising money through bank robberies, and kidnappings and extortion. Stalin was captured and exiled to Siberia numerous times, but often escaped.

  7. 5 days ago · Before his death in March 1953, Stalin allegedly had planned the execution of Doctors' plot defendants already on trial in Red Square in March 1953, and then he would cast himself as the savior of Soviet Jews by sending them to camps away from the purportedly enraged Russian populace.