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| | Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | STALIN, JOSEPH VISSARIONOVICH [Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich], 1879-1953, Soviet Communist leader and head of the USSR from the death of V. Lenin (1924) until his own death, b. |
 | | Stalin was arrested in 1913 and was exiled for life to N Siberia, where he remained until an amnesty was granted after the February Revolution of 1917. |
 | | Stalin maintained that his program of consolidating "socialism in one country" (i.e., Russia), although demanding immense sacrifice and discipline, would render the USSR immune to attacks by capitalist nations and would demonstrate the superiority of the socialist system. |
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