Yes, he was also the dictator of it till 1953 when he died.
Joseph Stalin
Stalin was the sole Soviet leader from 1927-1953.
Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He was born in 1879.
Joseph Stalin
Malenkov was the leader of the Soviet Union in the year 1953.
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin, born "Ioseb Besarionis Jughashvili on December 18, 1878, died on March 5 1953.'Stalin', the Russian word for steel, was initially used by him as a revolutionary code name. He was born a Russian subject in the Russian province of Georgia, becoming a Soviet citizen when that entity was created in 1917.Another Soviet leader who died in 1953 was Lavrenty Beria. Beria was the head of the NKVD, the Soviet Secret Police, and Stalin's close associate. Beria was executed for treason with 6 of his associates on December 23.
Nikita Khrushchev. There was a battle for succession of power in the Soviet Union (an interregnum) from 1953 (when Stalin died) to 1956 (when Khrushchev came to power).
Joseph Stalin was leader of Russia in 1948.
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) was the first Soviet (Russian) Leader to succeed Joseph Stalin after his death in 1953 (the end of the Korean War). Khrushchev was the leader of the Soviet Union (Russia) from 1953 until 1964.