Josef Stalin

leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953

• Born: 1878-12-18 1879-12-21 (Gori) (sourcing circumstances: de facto, de jure)
• Died: 1953-03-05 (Kuntsevo Dacha)
• Country of citizenship: Russian Empire (period: 1878-01-01 through 1917-01-01); Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (period: 1917-01-01 through 1922-01-01); Soviet Union (period: 1922-01-01 through 1953-01-01)
• Occupation: opinion journalist; poet; politician; revolutionary
• Member of political party: Communist Party of the Soviet Union (period: 1912-01-01 through 1953-03-05); Mesame Dasi (since: 1898-08-01); Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (period: 1901-10-01 through 1903-01-01); Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolshevik) (period: 1903-01-01 through 1912-01-01)
• Member of: Academy of Sciences of the USSR; All-Russian Central Executive Committee; Council of Ministers of the USSR; Council of People's Commissars (since: 1917-01-01); Orgburo (since: 1922-04-03); Revolutionary Military Council (period: 1918-10-08 through 1919-07-08, 1920-05-18 through 1922-04-01)
• Participant in: 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; 13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party; 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party; 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party; 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party; 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party; 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; 1st All-Russian Congress of Soviets; 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets; 4th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (location: Stockholm); 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (location: London); 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party; 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; Q16487395 (location: Saint Petersburg); Q25394187; Tampere conference of 1905 (location: Tampere); Tehran Conference
• Military rank: Generalissimus of the Soviet Union (date: 1945-01-01); Marshal of the Soviet Union (date: 1943-01-01)
• Military branch: Red Army
• Position held: Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (period: 1946-03-15 through 1953-03-05; replaced by: Georgy Malenkov); Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (period: 1941-05-06 through 1946-03-15; replaces: Vyacheslav Molotov); General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (period: 1922-04-03 through 1952-10-16; replaced by: Nikita Khrushchev; replaces: Vyacheslav Molotov); Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (period: 1917-10-23 through 1917-11-05, 1917-12-12 through 1919-03-25, 1919-03-25 through 1953-03-05); Member of the Russian Constituent Assembly; Minister of Defence (period: 1941-07-19 through 1946-02-25; replaced by: Nikolai Bulganin; replaces: Semyon Timoshenko); deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (parliamentary term: 1st legislature of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, 2nd legislature of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, 3rd legislature of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union; period: 1938-01-12 through 1946-03-11, 1946-03-12 through 1950-06-11, 1950-06-12 through 1953-03-05); member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (period: 1938-01-17 through http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/7392155ce60a98a76129ff0a565e072c); member of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR of the 1st convocation; member of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
• Employer: Brdzola (since: 1901-09-01); Pravda (period: 1912-01-01 through 1913-01-01); Tbilisi Observatory (period: 1899-12-01 through 1901-03-21)
• Educated at: Gori school (period: 1888-01-01 through 1894-06-01); Tbilisi Theological Seminary (period: 1894-09-01 through 1899-05-29)
• Spouse: Ekaterina Svanidze (period: 1906-07-16 through 1907-12-18); Nadezhda Alliluyeva (period: 1918-01-01 through 1932-11-09)
• Residence: Baku; Narym; Novaya Uda, Irkutsk Oblast; Saint Petersburg; Solvychegodsk; Turukhansk
• VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/101787139
• ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000121457825
• WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80044789
• Library of Congress authority ID: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80044789