what year was joseph stalin no longer dictator
Joseph Stalin 1 (1879-1953) Joseph Stalin, infamous for his campaigns of terror, was totalitarian dictator of the USSR from 1941 until his death in 1953. Stalin's policy of state-organized industrialization turned his country into a industrial and military power second only to the USA. From Stalin, Joseph. Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2001. Joseph Stalin was general secretary of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1922 to 1953. [By many accounts, Stalin,] more than any other