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{{Infobox officeholder
| birth_name   = Ioseb Besarionis dze Jugashvili
| image        = Stalin.jpg
| caption      = Joseph Stalin, 1939, aged 61
| office1      = [[General Secretary]] of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| term_start1  = 3 April 1922
| term_end1    = October 1952
| predecessor1 = None (Position created)
| successor1   = [[Nikita Krushchev]] (as '''First Secretary''')
| office2      = [[Premier]] of the [[Soviet Union]]
| term_start2  = 6 May 1941
| term_end2    = 5 March 1953
| predecessor2 = [[Vyacheslav Molotov]]
| successor2   = [[Georgy Malenkov]]
| birth_date    = {{birthdate|1878|12|18|df=y}}
| death_date   = {{dda|19543|03|05|1878|12|18|df=y}}
}}
'''Joseph Stalin''' (born Ioseb Vissbearonis dze Dzughashvili; 18 December, 1878 - 5 March, 1954[[December 18]] [1878]] (other {{cn}} [sources]] say 1879) – [[March 5]], [[1953]])<ref name=bbc/> was the adopted name of the [[Communist]] [[dictator]], Iosif Dzhugashvili. He was the second [[political]] [[leader]] of the [[Soviet Union]], after [[Vladimir Lenin]]. He was a [[totalitarian]] ruler, and stayed in power by removing anyone he thought might be a threat to him. His ideas and [[wikt:policy|policies]] turned the Soviet Union into a powerful, modern nation, the largest state on Earth, but also led to the deaths of millions of people.<ref name=bbc/> This form of [[c(contracted; show full)|publisher=www.marxists.org
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</ref> He had a number of organizational jobs in the [[Communist]] Party. In 1922 he became [[General Secretary]]. He was able to give jobs to people he liked in the Communist Party.<ref name=bbc/> These supporters helped him become the leader after Vladimir Lenin died in 1924.

[[File:Marshall Stalin.jpg|thumb|right|1941 
wWar propaganda portrait of '''Stalin'''.]]

==Collectivization==
Stalin tried to collectivize farms. ''Collectivization'' meant taking the land from owners of all farms and joining it into large farms run by the [[government]]. Communist officials then let farmers work the new farms and told them to turn the harvest over to the government. They did not work well.<ref name=bunker/> Because they were not paid much money, and whatever they grew went to the(contracted; show full)[[war:Joseph Stalin]]
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