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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)/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
 LOL. ''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 wha(contracted; show full)[[Category:Soviet politicians]]
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