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OCR: Joseph Stalin 1879- 1953) ied the Communist Party and ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 untii his death in 1953 Stalin became Bolshevik in 1903 and took control following the death of Soviet ieader Viadimir Lenin in 1924. In the 1930s, he conducted bioody purges of all rivais to his authority and iaunched series of ruthiess Five-Year Plans to rapidiy industrialize the countrv 1r August 1939 Staiin approved the Molotoy. Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Germany which divided Poland and eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of infiuence When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Stalin was taken compietely by surprise Nevertheless he rallied the country against the Germans and, under his leadership, the Soviet Union plaved a critical roie ir defeating the Axis powers. A ...