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{{Infobox officeholder
| name  = Joseph Stalin
| birthname =
| image = JStalin Secretary general CCCP 1942.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Stalin in 1942
| 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)alin 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=|archive-date=2006-02-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060205043229/http://www.stel.ru/stalin/|url-status=dead}}</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 19(contracted; show full)[[Category:Politicians from Georgia (country)]]
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