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{{Infobox officeholder
| birth_name   = Ioseb Besarionis dze Jugashvili
| image        = Portrait of Stalin in 1936.gif
| caption      = Stalin in 1936, aged 58. 
| office1      = [[General Secretary]] of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| term_start1  = 3 April 1922
| term_end1    = October 1952
| predecessor1 = None (Pposition 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     = 18 December, 1878
| death_date   = 5 March, 1953 (aged 74)
}}
'''Joseph Stalin''' ([[December 18]], [[, 1878]] – [[March 5]], [[, 1953]])<ref name=bbc/> was the adopted name of the [[Communist]] leader, 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 on Earth, but also led to the deaths of millions of people.<ref name=bbc/> This form of [[communism]] w(contracted; show full)|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==
[[Image:Stalin.gif|thumb|Stalin talking about [[communism]].]]
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
|publisher=www.marxists.org
|accessdate=2009-03-27
(contracted; show full)| years = 1941–1953 
| after = [[George Malenkov]]}}
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