Joseph Stalin studied to become a priest at his mother's direction. He first attended the Gori Spiritual School and then the Tiflis Spiritual Seminary.
Stalin was the leader of the Soviet union, from 1924 until his death in 1953. Originally his mother wanted him to become a priest, but he wanted to do something else, so he studied Marx, and joined the Revolution.
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President Carter supported Soviet dissidents.
The President of the Soviet Union when the Berlin Wall collapsed, in 1989, was President Mikhail Gorbachev.
The Soviet Union did not exist when Cleveland was president.
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The last President of the Soviet Union was Michail Gorbachev. The first President of the Russian Federation which is successor of the SU was Boris Eltsin.
No one renamed the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was dissolved by its member republics in December 1991. Russia was the largest Soviet republic and became, in a sense, the reincarnation of the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin was the president of Russia at the time, but did he rename the Soviet Union into Russia? Not really.Is it possible that the answer one is looking for is President Reagan, who dubbed the Soviet Union "An Evil Empire"?
There were four Soviet Premiers while Ronald Reagan was US President.
The Soviet leader was Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev was president when the Soviet Union collapsed into independent nations, begining in early in 1985.
Mikhail Gorbachev