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Joseph Stalin

Soviet leader; General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 until his death in 1953.

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Dates
18 Dec 1878 – 5 Mar 1953
Also known as
Iosif Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, Stalin
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  1. Life 18 Dec 1878 – 5 Mar 1953
  2. head of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (General Secretary) 1922 – 5 Mar 1953
  3. head of Soviet Union (Leader of party and state) c. 1929 – 5 Mar 1953

Joseph Stalin presented the union treaty at the Founding of the Soviet Union in 1922, as Commissar of Nationality Affairs, and became General Secretary of the Communist Party that year.

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  1. 18 Dec 1878 – 5 Mar 1953 Joseph Stalin
  2. 1922 – 5 Mar 1953 Joseph Stalin head of Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  3. c. 1929 – 5 Mar 1953 Joseph Stalin head of Soviet Union
Proof 6 sources
  1. Address by the President of the Russian Federation, 21 February 2022, Russian government, 21 Feb 2022. Primary record Archived copy
    In 1922, Stalin occupied the positions of both the General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the People’s Commissar for Ethnic Affairs.
  2. Soviet Union: A Country Study, Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, 1991. Scholarship & press
    By gradually consolidating influence and isolating his rivals within the party, Joseph V. Stalin became the sole leader of the Soviet Union by the end of the 1920s.
    when Stalin died on March 5, 1953
  3. Revelations from the Russian Archives: Internal Workings of the Soviet Union, Library of Congress. Primary record
    Stalin had eliminated all likely potential opposition to his leadership by late 1934 and was the unchallenged leader of both party and state.
  4. Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945: list of persons, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Stalin, Marshal of the Soviet Union Iosif Vissarionovich, Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union.
  5. Treaty on the Creation of the Soviet Union: Signed, Sealed, and Delivered?, Law Library of Congress (In Custodia Legis), 8 Jan 2013. Scholarship & press
    Joseph Stalin, who at that time was the Commissar of Nationality Affairs, reported the outcome of the conference to the full Congress on December 30, 1922.
  6. The Formation of the Union of the Soviet Republics (report to the First Congress of Soviets of the U.S.S.R.), Marxists Internet Archive (J. V. Stalin, Works, vol. 5, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954), 30 Dec 1922. Primary record
    Comrades, on the instructions of the Conference of Plenipotentiary Delegations of the Soviet Republics I move that you ratify the texts I have just read of the Declaration and Treaty on the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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