CJoseph Stalin

was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953.

• jAfter Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) died, Stalin outmaneuvered his rivals for control of the party. Once in power, he collectivized farming and had potential enemies executed or sent to forced labor camps. Stalin aligned with the United States and Britain in World War II (1939-1945) but afterward engaged in an increasingly tense relationship with the West known as the Cold War (1946-1991 (History.com)

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• Stalin was born Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili on December 18, 1878, or December 6, 1878 in Gori, Georgia.

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• Stalin grew up poor and didn't have any children. Stalin was abused growing up and had smallpox as a kid and ended up with scars on his face.

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• When stalin went to a nearby school, he secretly studied Communism and Marxism and became interested in the Russian Monarchy.

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• After he finished school, Stalin became and underground politician and participated in strikes. Stalin was involved in illegal activities, ranging from bank heists.

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• Stalin got married in 1906 and ended up having a son, but his son died in a prison camp in Germany. Stalins first wife died, an dhe got married a second time, but she killer herself.

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• In 1939, on the eve of World War II, Joseph Stalin and German dictator Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) signed a nonaggression pact.