Joeseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was a man who had many accomplishments in his lifetime. He was a

family man, a business man, and a political leader of one of the worlds largest super

powers. He is noted for having control over more people for a greater amount of time

than anyone before or since his time. He is compared to Ghengis Kahn and Ivan the

terrible. Stalin had a unique way of thinking and governing this became known as

Stalinism He had thoughts and ideas that affect our world even today.

Joseph Stalin was born in1879 by the name Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashville on

the twenty-first of December in the small town of Gori Georgia into a poor poverty

stricken family. His father was an unsuccessful cobbler he was also an alcoholic who

beat Joseph mercilessly, and was killed in a bar fight were he was stabbed to

death. Stalin's mother was more supportive of him, Her name was Ekiterena She

was a simple washerwoman who had hoped for Joseph to become a priest. Joseph

Had no siblings, he was the last born child and only to survive infancy. His mother was

said to be very attentive to him, it is said that "her attentiveness encouraged Stalin to self-

idolization, while the deprivations of his childhood may have made compensatory life

physiologically indispensable. In any event young Stalin given to identify with hero-like

figures" (William G. Rosenberg) This is why he was given his nick name Koba after a

fictional mountain hero. His family squalor gave him ambition and an acute

Consciousness on class, but his Georgian background also taught him a bit of brutality

and vengeance. In 1893 Stalin entered Tifilis Theological Seminary "the discipline there

was another impetus toward revolutionary activism." (Joseph Stalin). Soon after in 1898

he was involved in radical political activity. And in the next year he left the seminary

before he graduated and became a revolutionary organizer by 1901 he was a member of

the Georgian branch of the social democratic party. He roamed the caucuses, agitating

among co workers, he helped with strikes, and spreading socialist literature he had no

charisma or oral skill but seamed to be talented at practical organization, and in his dull

appearance concealed a genuine genius and an acute memory which helped him in

several ways. Later in 1903 the social democrats split into two groups leaving Stalin to

choose which side to join, the sides were the Boshlevics and the Mensheviks. Joseph

chose the more radical Boshlevics, and to support their leader who was Vladimire Iich

Lenin. Lenin appreciated Stalin's personal loyalty to his country and to Lenin. Over the

years between 1902 and 1913 Stalin was arrested repeatedly, but every time escaped to

continue being an organizer for the Boshleviks, it is even said he helped stage bank

robberies to help fund the Boshlivik campaign. Then later Lenin rewarded Joseph by

cooping him to the Boshlivik central committee. The he gained influence and power at a

rapid pace among the Boshliviks. Soon after he became the first editor of the pravda

which