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Article: Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin , 1879-1953, Soviet Communist leader and head of the USSR from the death of V. I.
Lenin
(1924) until his own death, b. Gori, Georgia. His real name was Dzhugashvili (also spelled Dzugashvili or Djugashvili); he adopted the name Stalin ( "man of steel" ) about 1913.
Early Career
The son of a shoemaker, Stalin studied (1894-99) for the priesthood at the theological seminary at Tiflis, but was expelled. While still a divinity student, he became a convert to Marxism and joined the Social Democratic party in the Caucasus. He became a disciple of Lenin after the split (1903) of the party into factions of
Bolshevism and Menshevism
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Stalin attended party ...
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