Joseph Stalin As a Teenager |
Historical Figures > Historical Figures with "S" Names > Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) |
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Joseph Stalin in 1894, age 16. Stalin was the de facto dictator of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953. He was an "Old Bolshevik," meaning that he was a Bolshevik prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917. |