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On December 18, 1879 losif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, later known as Joseph Stalin, was born.

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Stalin enrolled in the Orthodox Spiritual Seminary in Tiflis

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Stalin co organized a secret workers mass meeting for May Day 1900

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Joseph is arrested for coordinating a labor strike in Siberia, the first of many arrests and exiles throughout the Russian Revolution. During this time he adopted the name Stalin which means "steel" in Russian

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Stalin organized the robbing of a large delivery of money o the imperial bank

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Stalin is hailed as a hero when he helps Lenin from the Tsar's army into Finland and is appointed to the inner circle of the Bolshevik party. When Lenin takes power he appoints Stalin to be general secretary of the Communist Party in 1922.

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After Lenin's death in 1924 Stalin set out to destroy the old party leadership and take total control. He paints himself as a great benevolent leader of the Soviet Union.

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Stalin declares a class war between the proletariat and their enemies would intensify as socialism developed

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Stalin's wife Nadezhda kills herself in 1932

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The soviet union experienced a major famine which peaked in the winter of 1932-33 between 5 and 7 million people died

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Stalin purges the communist party of anyone who might oppose him. 93 of the 139 members of the Central Committee and 81 of the 103 generals and admirals are killed.

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Within the soviet union there was widespread civic disgruntlement against Stalin's government. Social unrest was increasingly evident in urban areas.

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Stalin signs a nonaggression pact with Adolf Hitler and they agree to carve up eastern Europe between them.

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The battle of Stalingrad is the turning point of the war. Hitler attacks the city bearing Stalin's name to humiliate him. Even though there were over a million casualties Stalin's army managed to defeat the Nazis.

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The rd army seized Berlin, Hitler committed suicide, and Germany surrendered in May