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  1. BornIoseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili · 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 · Gori, Russian Empire
    Died5 March 1953 (aged 74) · Moscow, Soviet Union
    Political partyCPSU (from 1912)
    SpousesEkaterine Svanidze · (m. 1906; died 1907) · Nadezhda Alliluyeva · (m. 1919; died 1932)
    Early life

    Stalin was born on 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 in Gori, Georgia, then part of the Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire. An ethnic Georgian, his birth name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (Russified as … See more

    In Lenin's government

    On 26 October 1917, Lenin declared himself chairman of the new government, the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom). Stalin supported Lenin's decision not to form a coalition with the Socialist R… See more

    Consolidation of power

    Upon Lenin's death in January 1924, Stalin took charge of the funeral and was a pallbearer. To bolster his image as a devoted Leninist amid his growing personality cult, Stalin gave nine lectures at Sverdlov U… See more

    World War II

    As a Marxist–Leninist, Stalin considered conflict between competing capitalist powers inevitable; after Nazi Germany annexed Austria and then part of Czechoslovakia in 1938, he recognised a major war … See more

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