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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Joseph Stalin
| birthname =
| image = CroppedStalin1943.jpg
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| caption =
| 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
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==Stalin's name==
Stalin 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==

Young Stalin was cute as hell. I mean just look at him:

http://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/a8bq80Y_700b.jpg

It's kind of crazy. Anyway, 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==
(contracted; show full)[[Category:Soviet politicians]]
[[Category:Time People of the Year]]
[[Category:World War II people]]
[[Category:1878 births]]
[[Category:1953 deaths]]

{{Cold War figures}}
{{Time Persons of the Year 1927–1950}}