Georgian-Russian marshal and politician,General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (died 1953)

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as premier from 1941 until his death. Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the Communist Party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, and his version of it is referred to as Stalinism.

Born

1878

December 18

Died

1953

Era

1870s

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1118 The city of Zaragoza is conquered by king Alfonso I of Aragon from the Almoravid.
1271 Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.
1499 A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversions of Muslims in Spain.
1622 Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.

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The world in 1953

When Joseph departed

april 13 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
april 24 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
april 25 Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
april 27 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1878

Alfred Döblin 1878–1957 Polish-German physician and author (died 1957) Carl Sandburg 1878–1967 American poet and historian (died 1967) Edward Plunkett 1878–1957 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish author, poet, and playwright (died 1957) James Colosimo 1878–1920 Italian-American mob boss (died 1920) Jan Łukasiewicz 1878–1956 Polish-Irish mathematician and philosopher (died 1956) Kathleen Scott 1878–1947 English sculptor (born 1878) Manuel L. Quezon 1878–1944 Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (born 1878) Margarito Bautista 1878–1961 Nahua-Mexican evangelizer, theologian, and religious founder (born 1878) Martin Buber 1878–1965 Austrian-Israeli philosopher and academic (died 1965)

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