Stalin, Joseph Vissarianovich, original Georgian name Ioseb Dzhugashvili (1879-1953).

 Secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-53) and Prime Minister of the Soviet state (1941-53). Dictatorially ruled the Soviet Union the totalitarian communist country. 

Stalin was born in a poor family in the provincial Georgian town of the Caucasus, an imperial Russian colony. In 1888-94 he learned in the church school then in Tiflis Theological Seminary from where was expelled in 1899. In 1900 he joined the political underground. Between 1902 and 1913, Stalin was seven times arrested for revolutionary activity. He  played an important role in coup d'état in November (October, old style) 1917 called October Revolution and in the Civil War of 1918-20. After Lenin’s death gradually take over the dictator power on country. Responsibly for the death of approximately 20 millions people. 

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