Joseph Stalin

Acting

Born December 18, 1878 · Gori, Caucasus, Russian Empire [now Georgia]

Died March 5, 1953

Also known as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili · Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin · Iósif Vissariónovich Dzhugashvili

Biography

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from the late 1920s until his death in 1953, holding the title of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and serving as the nation's premier from 1941 to 1953. Initially part of a collective leadership within a one-party system, he ultimately consolidated personal power to become the country's de facto dictator by the 1930s. Ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin helped to formalise these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies became known as Stalinism.

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Awards & recognition

Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic · 1949
Order of Lenin · 1949
Order of Sukhbaatar · 1949
honorary citizen of Budapest · 1948
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" · 1947

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Collar of the Order of the White Lion · 1945
Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945 · 1945
Gold Star medal · 1945
Hero of the Soviet Union · 1945
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" · 1945
Medal "For the Victory over Japan" · 1945
Medal "For the Victory over Japan" of Mongolia · 1945
Order of Lenin · 1945
Order of Sukhbaatar · 1945
Order of Victory · 1945
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" · 1944
Order of the Red Banner · 1944
Order of Victory · 1944
Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945 · 1943
Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" · 1943
Order of Suvorov, 1st class · 1943
Order of the Republic · 1943
Time Person of the Year · 1942
"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal · 1939
Hero of Socialist Labour · 1939
Order of Lenin · 1939
Time Person of the Year · 1939
Order of the Red Banner · 1930
Order of the Red Star · 1922
Order of the Red Banner · 1919
honorary citizen of České Budějovice
honorary citizen of Chrudim
honorary citizen of Prague
Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
Order of the Red Banner
Order of the White Lion
Nobel Peace Prize · 1948 · nominated
Nobel Peace Prize · 1945 · nominated