Was stalin a king

No, Russians had Tsars before 1917. Joseph Vissarionovich Gzhugashvili, later, from 1912, Stalin (the steel man) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After Lenin's death, he eliminated all his enemies and oppositions and became the supreme leader of the country. (One party, one leader, building of Communism and the characteristic personality cult -all this led to femine, secret police, imprisonment, torture, killing of thousands of people all over the USSR. )