

Repeatedly arrested, he underwent several internal exiles. He went on to edit the party's newspaper, Pravda, and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings and protection rackets. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism while his own policies are known as Stalinism.īorn to a poor family in Gori in the Russian Empire (now Georgia), Stalin attended the Tbilisi Spiritual Seminary before eventually joining the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he ultimately consolidated power to become the Soviet Union's dictator by the 1930s. He held power both as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Himself as People's Commissar of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union People's Commissar of Defense of the Soviet Union

People's Commissar for Nationalities of the RSFSR Himself as People's Commissar of Defense of the Soviet Union Nikolai Kutler, Pavel Milyukov, Rodichev, Maxim Vinaver, Cherepanov, Evdokimov, Mikhail Kalinin, Józef Unszlicht, Grigory Zinoviev, Boris Kamkov, Shreider Member of the Russian Constituent Assembly AMMK leader T T V Dhinakaran took to social media to recount VOC's unparalleled contribution and sacrifice for the freedom of the nation.Himself (as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars) Leaders of various political parties have also paid tribute to the freedom fighter including Leader of opposition party and joint coordinator of AIADMK Edappadi K Palaniswami and leaders of the Congress and communist parties. Chairman of Chennai Port Trust Sunil Paliwal was also present on the occasion. Minister for health Ma Subramanian and minister for HR&CE P K Sekar Babu paid floral tribute to the portrait of VOC at Harbour main gate to mark his death anniversary on Thursday as "Day of Sacrifice". Education minister Anbil Mahesh, chairman of TNTBESC Dindigul I Leoni, chief secretary V Irai Anbu, TNTBESC managing director D Manikandan and several other senior officials participated in the unveiling of the books.

As a first step towards it, the TNTBESC compiled VOC's speech on a wide range of topics on various occasions and published it as books.

One of the 14 announcements of the CM in the assembly was that unpublished literary works and books of VOC would be brought out at a nominal cost. The first volume of the compendium of VOC's works and the second volume of VOC's speech on 'Thirukkural' were published by Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation ( TNTBESC). CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin on Thursday unveiled books on freedom fighter V O Chidambaram's literary works at the Secretariat to mark the beginning of the year-long celebration of his 150th birth anniversary.
