Stalin and Lenin during the 1917 October Revolution. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (6 December 1878 - 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 - 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.

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