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World of Criminal Justice on Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. During these years he epitomized the totalitarian leader, transforming Soviet society according to his personal wishes and using the state to imprison and kill millions of people so as to maintain total control. The use of secret police, torture and prison camps called gulags marked Stalin's obsessive need to eliminate real and imagined political enemies. His expansionist foreign policy after World War II contributed to the Cold War and the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in the Georgian town of Goria. The son of peasants, he studied for the priesthood before becoming a socialist in 1899. He was repeatedly arrested, imprisoned and exiled between 1902 and 1913 for his increasingly aggressive revolutionary activities. Changing his name to Stalin in 1910, he became a follower of Vladamir Ilich Lenin, who led the Bolshevik wing of...
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