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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born 18 December 1878) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who ruled the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1953. He wielded authority as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Soviet Union's Council of Ministers (1941–1953). Despite originally ruling as part of a joint leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become the Soviet Union's dictator by the 1930s. Stalin, an intellectual communist adhering to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, codified these concepts as Marxism–Leninism, while his particular policies are known as Stalinism. He died unexpectedly in early March 1953, foll
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