The Early Years of Ioseph Vissarionovich Stalin

Ioseph Vissarionovich Stalin, better known as Joseph Stalin, was a paranoid leader who butchered more of his own people than anyone other than perhaps Mao.

Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovicn Dzhugashvili) is best known as the dictator who brought the Communist Party to its full power in Russia. As the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union starting in 1922, Stalin managed to grasp full power over the Soviet Union and held it until his death on March 5, 1953. The rise of Stalin, however, started in a less eventful way.

The rise of Stalin started in the Russian state o f Georgia in the year 1878. He was not born with the name of Stalin, but adopted it in the year 1913, taking the name from the Russian word for steel. Much of his early life is not well documented, with few people knowing his history. His mother was born a serf, and her other children (Stalin's siblings) died young, leaving him as an only child. Stalin's father was a cobbler who lost his own business and was forced to go work in a shoe factory. He rarely saw his wife and child, but when he did, Stalin's father brutally beat his family.

Joseph Stalin's childhood education took place in the Gori Church School, where he was taught alongside the children of richer, more influential parents. His school was taught in Russian (instead of his native Georgian language) and he was constantly mocked for his poor accent. Stalin's mother wanted him to become a priest, so after grammar school, he attended seminary not because he wanted to be a priest himself, but because other scho oling wasn't available. At the seminary, he first became associated with the socialist party (specifically, the branch of the party that became the Communist party).

Here is where Stalin changes. In 1899, Stalin quit the seminary and started propagandizing Marxism. He started working with the political underground between 1902 and 1917, resulting in many instances of being jailed and exiled to SiBeria. After the Revolution of 1905, Stalin was responsible for leading fighting squads in bank robberies in order to raise funds for the Bolshevik party. By 1912, he was integral enough to the Communist Party that he was appointe d to the Central Committee. From there, he became a brutal, de facto dictator who butchered his people right and left.

Stalins early life was one of struggle and oppression. Given this fact, it is probably not surprising that he ruled with an evil, iron fist. Nor is it particularly sudden natural death was probably an assassination by Beria, one of his henchmen.

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Author:: Richard Monk
Keywords:: Stalin, Joseph, Ioseph, Russia, Russian, Atrocities, Communism, Beria, Communist,
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