Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian progressive and the leader of the Soviet Union from 1927 until 1953. He filled in as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. Regardless of at first administering the country as a feature of an aggregate administration, he eventually merged ability to turn into the Soviet Union's true despot by the 1930s. A socialist philosophically dedicated to the Leninist understanding of Marxism, Stalin formalized these thoughts as Marxism–Leninism while his own strategies are known as Stalinism.