Joseph Stalin

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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

Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) was born in Gori, Tiflis province, Russian Empire - a Soviet political, statesman, military and party figure, a Russian revolutionary. Actual leader of the USSR. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1922-1953). Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), Generalissimo of the Soviet Union (1945). People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (since July 19, 1941), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and Chairman of the USSR State Defense Committee. He also held the following positions: From April 3, 1922 to February 10, 1934 - Secretary General, then - Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (from 1952 - CPSU), from December 19, 1930, after Vyacheslav Molotov took the post of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR instead of Alexey Rykov. In 1912, at the suggestion of V.I. Lenin was included in the Central Committee of the RSDLP. At the same time, Joseph Dzhugashvili finally chose the pseudonym "Stalin" for himself. During the October Revolution, the Second All-Russian Congress was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars. In 1922, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), he was elected a member of the Orgburo and the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), as well as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) (when Lenin was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR). In 1930, after the weakening and death of Lenin, Stalin finally emerged victorious from the internal party struggle, becoming the leader of the state. Stalin was the actual founder of the totalitarian dictatorship in the USSR. In 1928-1929 he was the initiator of the transition from the course of the New Economic Policy (NEP) to the course of industrialization, collectivization and building a planned economy, and intensified the policy of the cultural revolution in the USSR.

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