JOSEPH STALIN BIOGRAPHY

Joseph Stalin was born, December 21, 1879. His father was a cobbler. At age seven, Joseph Stalin became sick with small pox which left marks on his face for life.

At age eight, Joseph Stalin was sent to the local Church school. Stalins father died when he was only 11. His mother moved Joseph to Tiflis, and he was enrolled in the "Tiflis Theological Seminary".

At 15, Joseph Stalin became connected with certain underground groups of Russian Marxists then living in Transcaucasia. Joseph Stalin was expelled from school because of his revolutionary activities.

Joseph Stalin imbibed the Socialist doctrines and studied Karl Marx. He became a leader of the secret Marxist band in the seminary. Later, Joseph Stalin found a job as a minor clerk in Tiflis observatory. He turned to Bolshevism. By 1903, Stalin gained recognition as the master of mind communist movement.

In 1908, 1910, 1911 1913 to 1917 Joseph Stalin was imprisoned again for revolutionary activities. With the success of Bolshevik revolution Joseph Stalin resumed editorship of the Bolshevik newspaper, Pravda. It must be noted that Joseph Stalin and Trotsky had mutual political rivalry. However, Trotsky underestimated Stalin. Both fought for succession even while Lenin was alive.

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Joseph Stalin held two ministerial posts in the Bolshevik government. He was secretary general of the party’s Central Committee, from 1922, till the rest of his life. Stalin was also member of the then powerful Politburo.

In 1925, Joseph Stalin renamed the city of Tsaritsyn as Stalingrad. Stalin expelled Trotsky from the Soviet Union in 1929. Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico in 1940.

Germany attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Stalin appointed himself as the Commander in Chief. The Battle of Stalingrad (1942) and the Battle of Kursk (1943), were won by the Soviet Union under Stalin. In 1949, Russia, under Joseph Stalin, became the second nuclear power of the world.

Stalin married twice. He had two children. Joseph Stalin had a natural death on March 5, 1953, in Moscow.

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