Joseph Stalin: Quick Facts
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Facts
| Also Known As | Ioseb Dzhugashvili • Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin |
|---|---|
| Born | December 18, 1878 • December 6, 1878 • Gori • Georgia |
| Died | March 5, 1953 (aged 74) • Moscow • Russia |
| Title / Office | prime minister (1941-1953), Soviet Union |
| Political Affiliation | Bolshevik • Communist Party of the Soviet Union • Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party |
| Notable Family Members | daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva |
| Role In | Doctors’ Plot • German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact • Great Purge • Famine of 1932 • Iron Curtain • Korean War • Operation Barbarossa • Russian Revolution • Russo-Finnish War • World War II • Yalta Conference • October Revolution • Pacific War |
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