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      • Stalin industrialized the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, forcibly collectivized its agriculture, consolidated his position by intensive police terror, helped to defeat Germany in 1941–45, and extended Soviet controls to include a belt of eastern European states.
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  2. 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.

    • 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.
    • His mother sent him to study to become a priest. In December 1895, Stalin’s mother sent him to a seminary in the Georgian capital of Tiflis (modern-day Tbilisi).
    • His nom de guerre means “man of the steel hand” Stalin was born Ioseb (Joseph) Besarionis dze Jughashvili. But, like other Russian revolutionaries, including Vladimir Lenin, he later adopted the alias by which he is now best known.
    • At one point he lived in the Kremlin with Lenin and Leon Trotsky. Following the October Revolution of 1917, the three men became part of an informal group leading the new Bolshevik government.
  3. 5 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.

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  4. 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.

  5. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin[f] (born Dzhugashvili; [g] 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a communist revolutionary and Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

  6. Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the dictatorial leader of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century, from the late 1920s until his death in 1953. Stalin’s mistrust of Western governments, his insincere negotiations at the end of World War II and his determination to expand Soviet communism into eastern Europe were significant causes of the ...

  7. Oct 27, 2017 · “Stalin emerged as a leader of acute political intelligence and bottomless personal resentment.” Yet Kotkin also adroitly captures Stalin’s human foibles.

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