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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)
(contracted; show full)ng many books, especially books that were not allowed by the seminary. This included books by [[Karl Marx]]. He joined a [[Marxism|Marxist]] group in 1898, the Mesame Dasi, or Group Three.<ref name=pb>{{cite book | last =Blundell | first = Nigel| authorlink = | coauthors = | title =A Pictorial History of Joseph Stalin | publisher =Promotional Reprint Company Ltd. | date =1996 | location =London | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn =1856483266 }}</ref>

==Revolutionary==
He left school in 189
9 8and got a job at the Tbilisi Physical Institute.<ref name=pb/> He joined groups that were trying to start a [[revolution]] to remove the [[Tsar]]. They wanted a different type of government. The police raided his house in 1901 while hunting for people who opposed the government. Stalin escaped but went into hiding so the police could not find him. He organized anti-government activities such as May Day marches and protests. He became a [[Bolshevik]]. He supported a violent revolution, and did not support the [[Menshevik]]s. The secret police caught him in April 1902 and [[exile]]d him without trial to [[Siberia]].<ref name=bbc/> He lived in the village of Novaya Uda.<ref>
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|url=http://www.stel.ru/stalin/young_joseph_1879-1904.htm
|title=Joseph Stalin. Biography of the great Russian Communist Leader. 1879-1904
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He soon escaped from Siberia. This led to many later claims that he was a police [[spy]]. The arrest of another Bolshevik, Stephan Shaumyan, a rival of Stalin, increased these beliefs.<ref name=pb/> At the end of 1905, he went to a meeting in Finland and met Vladimir Ilich Lenin. Lenin was not what Stalin had expected.<ref name=pb/> The government arrested and exiled Stalin several times in the next ten years. This increased his power in the Bolshevik party and he was elected to the Central Committee of the party in 1912.<ref>
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|title=Stalin, Joseph. Biography and photos
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</ref> He was promoted to a position at [[St.Petersburg]].
[[File:JStalin Secretary general CCCP 1942 flipped.jpg|thumb|left|Picture flip, Stalin in 1942.]]
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==Secretary==
Stalin was a member of the Bolshevik Party, but did not do much in the [[Russian Revolution of 1917]].<ref name=bbc/> He was writing and editing [[Pravda]], the party newspaper.<ref>
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|url=http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/britain/periodicals/communist_review/1950/01/x01.htm
|title=CPGB: Stalin: Slander and Truth
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