Joseph Stalin Biography

Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.

Amongst the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin was appointed general secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922. He subsequently managed to consolidate power following the 1924 death of Vladimir Lenin through suppressing Lenin's criticisms and expanding the functions of his role, all the while eliminating any opposition. He remained general secretary until the post was abolished in 1952, concurrently serving as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 onward.

Under Stalin's rule, the concept of "socialism in one country" became a central tenet of Soviet society. He replaced the New Economic Policy introduced by Lenin in the early 1920s with a highly centralised command economy, launching a period of industrialization and collectivization that resulted in the rapid transformation of the USSR from an agrarian society into an industrial power. However, the economic changes coincided with the imprisonment of millions of people in correctional labour camps. Source: Wikipedia

Marriages

• 1906-07-28
  Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin (27) weds Ekaterina Svanidze (21) at St. David's Church in Tiflis

Joseph Stalin Timeline

• 1913-01-12
  After using other pseudonyms over the years, Josef Dzhugashvili signs himself as Stalin ('man of steel) in a letter to the the paper, Social Democrat
• 1922-04-03
  Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
• 1925-03-30
  Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians
• 1927-12-27
  Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
• 1929-01-18
  Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
• 1929-11-17
  Stalin throws Nicolai Bucharin out of Politburo
• 1929-11-18
  Stalin routes troops to Manchuria
• 1931-03-17
  Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
• 1932-10-11
  Stalin forces Zinoviev & Kamenev out of Communist Party
• 1934-02-10
  Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"
• 1934-12-01
  Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov assassinated, used by Stalin as the excuse to begin the Great Purge of 1934-38.
• 1935-12-26
  Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth"
• 1937-01-23
  Karl Radek & 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge
• 1937-01-30
  2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death
• 1937-06-12
  USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues
• 1937-06-13
  Stalin executes Russian officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna & Uberevitch
• 1939-04-16
  Stalin requests British, French & Russian anti-nazi pact
• 1939-04-17
  Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-Nazi pact
• 1941-04-03
  Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
• 1941-05-06
  Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia
• 1942-08-12
  British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin
• 1943-05-15
  Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
• 1943-05-22
  Stalin disbands Komintern
• 1943-11-06
  Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost"
• 1943-11-27
  Conference of Teheran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)
• 1943-12-01
  FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)
• 1944-04-28
  Stalin meets Polish/US priest S Orlemanski
• 1945-02-04
  Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of the war
• 1945-07-17
  Potsdam Conference (Truman, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
• 1945-08-02
  Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman & Churchill
• 1948-03-18
  Soviet consultants have left Yugoslavia in first sign of Tito-Stalin split.
• 1951-10-06
  Stalin proclaims USSR has atom bomb
• 1952-08-20
  Stalin meets Chou Enlai
• 1953-02-28
  Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev & Malenkov
• 1953-03-01
  Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
• 1953-03-09
  Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
• 1961-10-30
  Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square

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