Josef Vissarionovich Stalin (1879──1953), the main leader of the Soviet Communist Party and the Soviet government. In 1894, he began to engage in revolutionary activities. In 1899, he was expelled from school for actively participating in revolutionary activities. From then on, he embarked on the path of a professional revolutionary. After the victory of the February Revolution in 1917, he returned to Petrograd from exile, led the work of "Pravda", and participated in the Seventh All-Russian Bolshevik Party Congress (the April Congress) and was elected to the Party Central Committee Member of the Political Bureau of the Committee. Between July and August of the same year, the Bolshevik Party secretly held its Sixth Congress. When Lenin was unable to attend the meeting, Stalin made a summary report of the Central Committee and a report on the political situation on behalf of the Party Central Committee. In October, the Party Central Committee held an enlarged meeting and passed a resolution on armed uprising. Stalin was elected to the party headquarters to lead the uprising. Under the leadership of Lenin, he actively participated in and organized the Petrograd armed uprising.

After the victory of the October Revolution, Soviet Russia began to oppose foreign armed intervention and civil war. Stalin was commissioned by Lenin many times to go to the most critical fronts to command the battle. In April 1922, at the Eleventh Congress of the Party, based on Lenin's suggestion, Stalin was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). He has held the party's top leadership position for the next 30 years. After Lenin's death in January 1924, Stalin became the supreme leader of the Soviet party and government.

At the Fourteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in April 1925, Stalin, on behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Russia (Bolsheviks), proposed the general line of socialist construction to transform the Soviet Union from an agricultural country to an industrial country. He presided over the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which adopted the proposal of agricultural collectivization. In December 1936, Stalin made a report "On the Draft of a New Constitution" at the Eighth National Congress of Soviets. This draft constitution was adopted and became known as "Stalin's Constitution". In May 1941, Stalin became Chairman of the People's Commissar of the Soviet Union.

While the Soviet people were struggling to complete the Third Five-Year Plan, on June 22, 1941, German fascism launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union. Stalin gave a radio speech on July 3, calling on the Soviet people not only to eliminate the dangers faced by their own country, but also to help the people of various European countries who were enslaved by German fascism. He served as Chairman of the Soviet Defense Council and Supreme Commander of the Soviet Armed Forces. In early November, the German army approached Moscow. On the 7th, Stalin held the October Revolution military parade in Red Square as usual. The soldiers of the reviewed troops set off from Red Square and went directly to the front line. In February 1943, the Soviet army achieved a great victory in the Battle of Stalingrad, annihilating 330,000 enemy soldiers and becoming one of the turning points of World War II. On March 6, Stalin was awarded the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.

He successively attended the Tehran Conference, Yalta Conference and Potsdam Conference, held talks with US and British leaders Roosevelt, Churchill and others, and made extremely important contributions to the complete victory of the anti-fascist forces in World War II. contribution.

After the end of World War II, in March 1946, Stalin served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers. In October 1952, he was elected as a member of the Presidium and Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. On March 5, 1953, Stalin died of cerebral hemorrhage.