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General Secretary / First Secretary
of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
In office
April 3, 1922 March 5, 1953
Preceded by None (position created in 1922)
Succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev
Born December 18, 1878(1878-12-18)
Gori, Georgia, Russian Empire
Died March 5, 1953 (aged 74)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Nationality Georgian
Political party Communist Party
of the Soviet Union
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი, Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili; Russian: Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Джугашви́ли (help·info), Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) (December 18 [O.S. December 6] 1878[1] March 5, 1953), better known by his adopted name, Joseph Stalin (Иосиф Сталин, Iosif Stalin; stalin meaning "made of steel"[2]), was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. During that time, he established the eponymous regime, Stalinism. Although Stalin's formal position originally had little significant influence, his office being nominally one of several Central Committee Secretariats, Stalin's...