Stalin was in sole control from 1929 to his death in 1953 for a total of 24 years. For about six years before that from about 1923, when Lenin was incapacitated due to a stroke, Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev ruled as a triumvirate until Stalin eventually ousted even his two allies from the Communist Party to take sole control in 1929.
In WWII and for many years after it was Josef Stalin.
Stalin had a great many tactics and methods for achieving his goals. Stalin would use control and manipulation for example.
Russia was communist for 70 years. It had more than one leader. From 1917 to 1989, they were: Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, Nikita Khruschev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuriy Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko & Mikhail Gorbachev. The bloodiest was Josef Stalin. He murdered twice as many people as Hitler.
Joseph (also spelt Josef) Stalin died of a seizure. Many people believed the seizure occurred because Stalin was so stressed and overwhelmed. Most biographers, as well as his death certificate attribute his death to a cerebral hemorrhage, a stroke. He was 73 years old and not in very good health. His death cause listed on Wikipedia is stroke. However, there are even theories he was poisoned.
10 years in Stalin's labor camps.
Many people, in all likelihood, but the famous one was Leon Trotsky, leader of the Russian October Rebellion against Josef Stalin. For his trouble, Trotsky was expelled from Russian, and later killed with a blow from a pick-ax to the head on Stalin's orders.
America had many allies during WWII though its main allies were Britain and Russia. Their leaders were Winston Churchill(Britain) and Josef Stalin (Russia).
He had sole power for 21 years. However, he was a lead politic for at least another 8 years.
The Soviet Union was a ruthless dictatorship with no respect for human rights, which was involved in many terrible crimes against humanity, particularly during the regime of Josef Stalin.
Stalin was not an emperor and did not have an empire. He was the leader for many years of the USSR
Stalin responded very violently. He executed many Kulaks and soon began mass deportations that carried out through-out the years. Many of the Kulaks died from the results of being deported.
Josef Stalin did many harsh things to his enemies include executions and imprisonment without due process. This was one of his best know characteristics in which he treated those who dare oppose him with no remorse.