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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who was the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
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.
Nov 12, 2009 · Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. Through terror, murder, brutality and mass imprisonment, he modernized the Soviet economy.
Apr 3, 2014 · Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for more than two decades, instituting a reign of death and terror while modernizing Russia and helping to defeat Nazism.
A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.
Oct 27, 2017 · One such moment occurred on the evening of November 13 1940 in a bunker beneath the German foreign ministry in Berlin. With British bombs exploding on the German capital overhead, Joachim von ...
5 days ago · Joseph Stalin - WWII Leader, Soviet Union, Dictator: During World War II Stalin emerged, after an unpromising start, as the most successful of the supreme leaders thrown up by the belligerent nations.
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 Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 18 December [ O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who was the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
A leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, Josef Stalin (1879-1953) became the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party as well as the head of the Soviet state. Stalin held extraordinary personal power which he used to ruthlessly eliminate his political rivals, including Leon Trotsky.
