Back Сталин, Иосиф Виссарион-иԥа AB Josef Stalin AF Josef Stalin ALS ጆሴፍ ስታሊን AM Josef Stalin AN Iosep Stalin ANG जोसेफ़ स्टालिन ANP يوسف ستالين Arabic ܝܘܣܦ ܣܛܐܠܝܢ ARC جوزيف سطالين ARY
Joseph Stalin | |
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.jpg) Stalin in 1950 | |
| General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 3 April 1922 – 16 October 1952[a] | |
| Preceded by | Vyacheslav Molotov (as Responsible Secretary) |
| Succeeded by | Nikita Khrushchev (as First Secretary) |
| 2nd Leader of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 21 January 1924 – 5 March 1953 | |
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| Preceded by | Vladimir Lenin |
| Succeeded by | Georgy Malenkov |
| 4th Premier of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 6 May 1941 – 5 March 1953 | |
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| Preceded by | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Succeeded by | Georgy Malenkov |
| Minister of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union[b] | |
| In office 19 July 1941 – 3 March 1947 | |
| Premier | Himself |
| Preceded by | Semyon Timoshenko |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Bulganin |
| People's Commissar for Nationalities of the Russian SFSR | |
| In office 8 November 1917 – 7 July 1923 | |
| Premier | Vladimir Lenin |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
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| Born | Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili 18 December 1878 Gori, Russian Empire (present-day Georgia) |
| Died | 5 March 1953 (aged 74) Moscow, Soviet Union |
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| Political party | CPSU (from 1912) |
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| Alma mater | Tiflis Theological Seminary |
| Awards | Full list |
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| Branch | Red Army |
| Years of service | 1918–1920 |
| Rank | Generalissimo (from 1945) |
| Commands | Soviet Armed Forces (from 1941) |
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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin[c] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili);[d] (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a communist revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 to his death.
In the Soviet Union, Stalin created a totalitarian political system now called Stalinism. He also used Marxism–Leninism and made it the Soviet Union's official political ideology.
After World War II, Stalin gained control over all of Eastern Europe, including part of Germany. There he set up a series of loyal Marxist-Leninist single-party states. This made the Soviet Union a superpower. Stalin's policies turned the Soviet Union into a powerful, relatively modern country that was the largest on Earth.
Stalin was known as a brutal leader who was responsible for the deaths of over 20 million people in what was called the Holodomor.
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