Josef stalin
Josef stalinJosef Stalin
Josef Stalin was born in 1879, under the name Iosif
Vissarionich Dzhugashvili. He was born in Gori, which is now the Republic
of Georgia, and his parents were both Georgian peasants who did not know
how to speak Russian.
However, Stalin learned the Russian language at his school, a
Georgian church school, which he attended from 1888 to 1894. Here, he
earned a full scholarship to the Tbilisi Theological Seminary, where he
started reading and learning about the principles of Marxism. Stalin was
later expelled from the seminary for distributing Marxist propaganda, and
thus became a full-time revolutionary.
In 1899, Stalin began working as a propagandist for the Social-
Democratic party (A Marxist revolutionary group). He was caught and
arrested by the police in 1902, and spent more than a year in prison before
being exiled to Siberia. Stalin escaped in 1904, and married his first wife,
Yekaterina Svanidze. She died six years later, in 1910. After her death,
Stalin was subsequently arrested eight times, six in which he escaped. He
was last arrested in 1913, in which he spent four years in exile and was
released in 1917. He married for the second time in 1919, to Nadezhda
Alliluyeva, who later committed suicide in 1932.
Between 1905 and 1917, Stalin followed and supported the
Bolshevik party, and in 1907 he helped organize a bank holdup in Tbilisi to
expropriate funds for the Bolshevik cause.
He was selected by Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Central
Committee in 1912 and the following year he briefly edited the new party
newspaper, the Pravda (Truth). At Lenin's request he wrote his first major
work, Marxism and the Nationality Question....
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