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Joseph Stalin

Stalin’s Birth • Gori, Georgia • December 21, 1879 • Iosif Vissarionovich Dzugashvili • Father was a shoemaker • Mother was a housekeeper

Joseph’s Father • An abusive alcoholic • Left family to work in Tiflis, Georgia when Joseph was 5 • Died in 1890

Stalin’s Mother • Yekaterina • Deeply religious • Wanted Joseph to be a priest • Worked hard to pay for Joseph’s school

Childhood • Father abused Joseph • After his father left, Joseph and Yekaterina lived with a priest • Enrolled in Orthodox parochial school in 1888.

Stalin as a Priest • 1894 got scholarship to seminary • Got highest marks on behavior and grades • In his fourth year, he ed Mesame Dasi • Expelled from seminary

Revolutionary Apprentice • ed Social Democratic Party in 1901 • Did full-time revolutionary work • 1905 Served as party organizer • Met Lenin at conference in Finland

Exile • December 1911 Stalin was exiled to Vologda. • January 1912 broke away from party and met in Prague • Lenin co-opted Stalin into government • March 1912 Stalin escaped from exile and went to St. Petersburg

Return to Exile • 1913 Stalin and Lenin met in Vienna to write Marxism and the National Problem • March 7, 1913 After he returned to St. Petersburg, Stalin was arrested. • While in Siberia, he changed his name to Stalin (man of steel)

Czar Loses Power • The Czar’s abdication on March 15, 1917 led to great social and political chaos • Stalin and Lenin agreed that they should overthrow the temporary Russian government • Both urged seizure of power at party debates, but neither had a role in organizing the insurrection itself

Early Soviet Regime • Held cabinet post of commissar for nationalities for the next five years • Served in different positions during the civil war • Acting inspector general of the Red Army and as a political commissar. • 1921 He initiated the brutal reconquest of independent Georgia.

Stalin Gains Power • Lenin died in 1924 • 1925 Stalin got rid of Trotsky • 1926 ousted Kamenev and Zinviev • Got rid of the rest of the cabinet • 1928 Almost had total control

Stalin’s Politics • Deportation and execution of kulaks • Forced entrance of peasants into collective farms • Nationalization of all industry and commerce • Execution and deportation of those who opposed his plans

Stalin’s Dictatorship • Dissatisfaction may have led to secret plot to replace Stalin with Sergei Kirov • December 1934 Kirov was murdered • Stalin executed almost entire political and military elite • Millions of Soviet citizens were forced into labor camps

World War II • Stalin took comand of Soviet forces • Ordered brilliant counteroffensives at Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk. • Arranged for lend-lease from the Western Powers

Post-War USSR • Stalin almost completely restored the pre-war system • Molded occupied countries in the Stalinist image and placed under Moscow’s control

Stalin’s End • 1952 Stalin began preparing for old leadership ways • He met with stout resistance • Before he could begin his “old ways”, Stalin died of a brain hemorrhage on March 5, 1953, in Moscow