| STALINStalin [Dzhugashvili] Joseph Vissarionovich, was born on 21st of December 1879 in the town of Gori, Tiflis province. |
Stalin [a real surname – Dzhugashvili] Joseph Vissarionovich [9(21).12. 1879, Gori, now Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, – 5.3.1953, Moscow], one of the leaders of the Communist party, the Soviet state, international communist and workers’ movement, a distinguished theoretician and propagandist of marksism-leninism. |
Stalin [a real surname – Dzhugashvili] Joseph Vissarionovich [6(18).12. 1879, Gori Tiflisskaya gub., – 5.3.1953, state dacha near Volynskoye Moskovskaya oblast, now Fili-Davydkovo district of Moscow], Russian revolutionary leader, Soviet party, state and military leader, one of the leaders of RKP(b) – VKP(b) – KPSU (in 1922 – 34 the General Secretary of the Central committee), head of the Soviet government (1941–53), generalissimo of the Soviet Union (27.6.1945). |
StalinDuring the quarter of a century preceding his death in 1953, the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin probably exercised greater political power than any other figure in history. Stalin industrialized the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, forcibly collectivized its agriculture, consolidated his position by intensive police terror, helped to defeat Germany in 1941-1945, and extended Soviet controls to include a belt of Eastern European states. |
