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  1. Jul 7, 2024 · 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.

  2. 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 Unionfrom 1924 until his deathin 1953.

  3. Apr 3, 2014 · 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.

  4. Joseph Stalin (18 December 1878 - 5 March 1953) Stalin was absolute ruler of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Stalin presided over the industrialisation of the Soviet economy and was the supreme war leader during the Second World War.

  5. 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.

  6. www.encyclopedia.com › russian-soviet-and-cis-history-biographies › joseph-stalinJoseph Stalin | Encyclopedia.com

    May 23, 2018 · Stalin, Joseph (1879–1953) ( Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) Leader of the Soviet Union (192453). He supported Lenin and the Bolsheviks from 1903, adopting the name Stalin (‘man of steel’) while editing Pravda, the party newspaper.

  7. 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 village in Georgia.

  8. 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.

  9. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1941 until his death.

  10. Oct 27, 2017 · Stalin: the definitive biography of a tyrant, foibles and all. A gripping account of the Russian leader attempts to present him as a human being. Joseph Stalin in his office in 1932, beneath a...