how powerful was joseph stalin?

Question

like how he became a dictator and how he rose with so much power just.

Answer 1

He was the most powerful man in the world at one point. He was a great leader for Russia, but was a bad person. He killed millions of his own people.

Answer 2

Joseph Stalin rose through the ranks quickly inn the Communist Party until he became Commissar in 1924 and overall leaders bar none by 1928. He did it shrewdly yet violently as he used his paranoia against other party's hopefuls and those who were more popular with the people's leaders and had them eliminated and exiled. (Leon Trotsky).
He had people who even stood by him and supported suspiciously eleiminated and blaming it on a group who would had poised a threat to his power or who was hated and discriminated against ,like the Jews or any other type of miscreant.He became so powerful that people avoided being the first one to stop clappping when he was introduced or honored for fear of growing out of favor with him.

Answer 3

I'm sure you've figured this out by now, but in case you haven't you should go to Wikipedia. yes, you will have to read about Stalin a little, but it won't be too painful.

short answer, Stalin was an extremely powerful and cruel dictator. many many Russians died under his reign. a bad bad man ;-)