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Stalin was expelled from the seminary for missing exams, although he claimed it was for Marxist propaganda.
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He was arrested multiple times between 1902 and 1913, and subjected to imprisonment and exile in Siberia.
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Stalin married Ekaterina “Kato” Svanidze, a seamstress.
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Lenin appointed Stalin to serve on the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party.
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The Bolsheviks seized power during the Russian Revolution.
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Stalin married his second wife, Nadezhda “Nadya” Alliluyeva, the daughter of a Russian revolutionary.
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He became secretary general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
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After Lenin's death, Stalin won control of the Communist Party.
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Stalin launched his five year plan intended to transform the Soviet Union from a peasant society into an industrial superpower.
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Stalin became dictator.
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A series of campaigns designed to rid the Communist Party, the military and other parts of Soviet society from those Stalin considered a threat.
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