Joseph Stalin was a person who worked in politics.
Joseph Stalin . He governed the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953 . After an education at Tiflis Spiritual Seminary , he joined the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party . Marxism -- Leninism is the political ideology adopted by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Comintern , which its proponents consider to be based on Marxism and Leninism .