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Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. However, he ruled by terror, and millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign.

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Joseph Stalin's forced industrialization of the Soviet Union that caused the worst man-made famine in history.

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Lenin had as stroke and was going into retirement and recommended Stalin's dismissal. However, after Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin concealed documents of Lenin's recommendation. Thereafter, Stalin isolated his major enemies and had them removed from government. This eventually led him to be the only and final leader of the Soviet Union.

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Stalin was one of the Bolsheviks' chief operatives in the Caucasus and grew very close to Lenin (a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist), who saw him as a capable and loyal follower.
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It was a single-party Marxist-Leninist state. It existed from 1922 until 1991, and was the first country to declare itself socialist and build towards a communist society. It was a union of fourteen Soviet Socialist Republics and one Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (Russia).

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Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953