Joseph Stalin

Also known as Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, was the leader of the Soviet Union in the mid-1920's. he was born on December 18, 1878 in Gori, Georgia, and he died the 5th of March 1953 in Kuntsevo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. He belonged to the Communist party of the Soviet Union and was the General Secretary of this party from 1922 until 1952. He went to military service in 1943 and finished in 1953, he went to the Sovient Armed Forces and was ranked as Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943-1945). Aswell, he was also named as the supreme commander and battled in World War II. The name "Stalin" comes from the russian stal, "steel" and Lenin, his inspiration since childhood, he was also known as Koba (a georgian folk hero). It is also known that he used over a dozen of names for secret communications, the names itself are still unknown.

He was born in a family were both of his parents were peasants and also illiterate. His father beat him when he was only a child, this could be a reason why he become a revolutionary. He studied Russian Orthodox Christianity at the age of 20 because his mpther wanted him to become a priest.

He began involving with the socialist movement at seminary school, later he was expelled in 1899. He worked for political underground for ten years in the Caucasus. He followed a party called "professional revolutionaries" and also admired the ideology of centralism of Vladimir Lenin. He became a member of Lenin's Bolshevik party until 1917 October revolution.

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Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. 2013. Joseph Stalin | Jewish Virtual Library. [online] Available at: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/stalin.html [Accessed: 13 Sep 2013].