Joseph Stalin By C.Skaggs Jan 1, 1901 Joseph Stalin Joined Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Jan 25, 1905 Met Vladmir Lenin. (leader of the communist revolution in U.S.S.R.) Jan 31, 1912 Named by Lenin to Bolshevik Party Central Committee Jan 1, 1917 Joseph Stalin Named Commissar of Nationalities after Bolshervik Mar 28, 1922 Joseph Stalin was Appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party Mar 28, 1928 Began Five Year Plans to bring U.S.S.R into the industrialize age Mar 28, 1929 Joseph Stalin Became dictator of U.S.S.R. after the death of Lenin Mar 28, 1935 Joseph Stalin Began Great Purge of Communist Party Member( Millions of people Stalin considered a threat were killed) Mar 29, 1939 U.S.S.R signed Non-Agression Pact with Germany Mar 29, 1941 Named himself Premier of Russia Mar 30, 1941 Germany attacks. U.S.S.R. was unprepared for the attack. Mar 29, 1942 Stalin Allies with United States and United Kingdom Mar 5, 1953 Stalin Died in Moscow on March 5