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[|Biography of Joseph Stalin]
 * Joseph Stalin**


 * Joseph Stalin was born in Georgia on December 18, 1878.
 * Stalin grew up in poverty in a religious family.
 * Stalin attended a church school and earned a scholarship to a Georgian Orthodox seminary.
 * He was expelled unable to pay tuition and discovered the writings of Vladimir Lenin and decided to become a Marxist revolutionary.
 * Stalin was arrested and exiled from the country several times.
 * In 1905 Stalin married Yekaterina Svanidze who died two years later.
 * Stalin went on to organize rebellions and bank robberies.
 * After coming to know Lenin, Lenin decided he did not like Stalin and his ideas.
 * Lenin died of a heart attack on January 21, 1924 and Stalin took power.
 * [[image:Stalin1.jpg width="271" height="353" align="right"]]Stalin soon began to rapidly increase industrialization and central control of the economy, disobeying Lenin's New Economic Policy.
 * Molded the features known for the Soviet Union.
 * In 1922 he was elected general secratary of the Communist Party.
 * Stalin molded Europe after WWII
 * Stalin died March 5, 1953.

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