“Joseph Stalin was born, Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, on December 18, 1878, or on December 6, 1878, according to the Old Style Julian calendar (Although he later invented a new date of birth for himself: December 21, 1879), in the small town of Gori, Georgia, then part of the Russian empire ” (History). In the year of 1922, Joseph Stalin was delegated to a newly formed office for the general secretary for the communist party (Biography). “After Lenin’s death, in 1924, Stalin set out to destroy the old party leadership and take controle” (Biography). After Stalin became dictator in the late 1920s, he ruled by terror along with a totalitarian grip in order to eliminate anybody who might defy him (History). “In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Stalin reversed the Bolshevik agrarian policy by seizing land given earlier to the peasants and organizing collective farms” (Biography).…