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Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
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dead
- born
- 1878
- died
- 1953
- age at death
- 74
- known for
- politician, revolutionary, opinion journalist
1878 – 1953

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who joseph stalin is
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from the late 1920s until his death in 1953, holding the title of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and serving as the nation's premier from 1941 to 1953. Initially part of a collective leadership within a one-party system, he ultimately consolidated personal power to become the country's de facto dictator by the 1930s.
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