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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Joseph Stalin
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| image = CroppedStalin1943.jpg
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| office       = [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|General secretary]] of the [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Central Committee]] of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| term_start   = 3 April 1922
(contracted; show full)h [[Germany]]'s leader [[Adolf Hitler]]. He then fought a bloody war after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The end of the war saw Stalin gain control of all [[Eastern Europe]] including [[East Germany|a part of Germany]]. There, a series of loyal [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] [[single-party state]]s were set up, extending his power and determining the Soviet Union's position as a [[superpower]].

Stalin replaced [[Vladimir Lenin]] as leader of the Soviet Union. 

==Stalin's name==

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==Early life==

==Revolutionary==

==Secretary==

==Collectivization==
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you would like that woul;dnt youStalin was born as '''Ioseb Besarionis dze Jugashvili''', or '''Iosif Dzhugashvili'''. He adopted the name "Stalin" later.
* In {{lang-ru|link=no|Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Ста́лин}} - {{transl|ru|Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin}}; born {{lang|ru|Джугашвили}} - {{transl|ru|Dzhugashvili}}.
* In {{lang-ka|იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი}} - {{transl|ka|Ioseb Jughashvili}}
* {{Audio|ru-Stalin.ogg|Joseph Stalin}}

==Early life==
Ioseb Vissarionovich Jugashvili was born in a small one room house in Gori, [[Georgia (country)]]. His father made and fixed [[shoe]]s.<ref name=bbc>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stalin_joseph.shtml |title=Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953) |accessdate=2009-02-01 |format= |work=Historic Figures }}</ref> His father was often drunk and used to hit his wife and his son until his death in a fight in 1890. Joseph had [[smallpox]] when he was young. This left his face [[scar]]red. Later, [[photograph]]s were often changed to hide the scars.<ref name=pb/> His left arm was also shorter because of an accident. He was educated at the Gori church school. Stalin studied to be a [[priest]] at a [[seminary]] (school for priests) in [[Tbilisi]].<ref>{{Cite web
 |url= http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/bios/all_bio_joseph_stalin.htm
 |title=Biography: Joseph Stalin
 |work=pbs.org
 |accessdate=18 November 2010
}}</ref> He was an active student reading 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 1899 and 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>{{cite web|url=http://www.stel.ru/stalin/young_joseph_1879-1904.htm|title=Joseph Stalin. Biography of the great Russian Communist Leader. 1879-1904|publisher=www.stel.ru|accessdate=2009-03-27|last=|first=}}</ref>

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 Lenin|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>{{cite web|url=http://www.stel.ru/stalin/|title=Stalin, Joseph. Biography and photos|publisher=www.stel.ru|accessdate=2009-03-27|last=|first=}}</ref> He was promoted to a position at [[St.Petersburg]].

==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>{{cite web|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|last=|first=}}</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.

==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 state, the workers did not try their best. The best farming worked on very small bits of land given to the peasants to grow what they liked. On these pieces of land, farmers could keep what they grew. In 1938 these parts of land were 4% of Soviet farmland.<ref name=bunker/> However, they gave 20% of its produce.<ref name=bunker>{{cite book | last = Koontz| first = Terri| authorlink = | coauthors = Mark Sidwell, S.M.Bunker| title = World Studies| publisher = Bob Jones University Press| date = | location = Greenville, South Carolina 29614| pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 1-59166-431-4}}</ref>

==World War II==
[[File:Marshall Stalin.jpg|thumb|left|1941 War propaganda portrait of '''Stalin'''.]]
Stalin cooperated with [[Hitler]] before the [[World War II]] and finally in 1939 they both made an agreement to conquer [[Poland]] and divide it between themselves. This is how [[World War II]] broke out.

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{{Time Persons of the Year 1927–1950}}