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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin[ f] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; [ g] 18 December [ O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and Chairman of the Council of ...
Yakov Dzhugashvili. Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili[ a] (31 March [ O.S. 18 March] 1907 – 14 April 1943) was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth. His father, then a young revolutionary in his mid-20s, left the child to be raised by his late wife's family.
The early life of Joseph Stalin covers the period from Stalin's birth, on 18 December 1878 (6 December according to the Old Style ), until the October Revolution on 7 November 1917 (25 October). Born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia, to a cobbler and a house cleaner, he grew up in the city and attended school there before ...
Stalin during the Russian Revolution, Civil War and Polish–Soviet War. Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union . After growing up in Georgia, Stalin ...
The Kuntsevo Dacha ( Russian: Ку́нцевская да́ча, romanized : Kuntsevskaya dacha) was Joseph Stalin 's personal residence between Moscow and Davydkovo (on the road leading to the former town of Kuntsevo) (then in Moscow Oblast, now part of Moscow 's Fili district), where he lived for the last two decades of his life and died on 5 ...
Svetlana Alliluyeva. Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva[ a] (born Stalina; [ b] 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, [citation needed] was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she became an international sensation when she defected to the ...
His pseudonym, Stalin, means "man of the steel hand". The October Revolution took place in the Russian capital of Petrograd on 7 November 1917 ( O.S. 25 October 1917), which saw the transfer of all political power to the Soviets. Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union and the leader of the Bolshevik party.
Joseph Stalin. This is a list of awards and honorary titles received by Joseph Stalin, a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953).