Introduction
Early years
Joseph Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia on the 21st December 1879. Stalin was born Losif (Joseph) Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, but later adopted the name “Stalin” which translates to ‘man of steel’ in Russian. Stalin was born into a poor family, his father a cobbler and his mother a washerwoman. he was the only son of Vissarion Dzhugashvili to survive. Stalin’s father passed away in 1891, His mother a religious and illiterate peasant woman sent her son to the theological seminary in Tbilisi, where he was later expelled for having different views to the government.
Stalin later joined the underground revolutionary Marxist movement of Tbilisi, a movement devoted to Karl Manx and Frederich Engels, …show more content…
Around 1912 Lenin was extradited to Switzerland and Stalin was appointed into the central committee of the Bolshevik party. Stalin spent most of his years between 1905-1912 doing organizational work for the Marxist movement in the city of Baku, Russia. He was arrested by the secret police on several times and managed to escape on several occasions. After he returned from Vienna, the police arrested him once again. He was exiled to the far away village of Turukhansk beyond the arctic circle. He remained in Turukhansk until the fall of tsarism. In 1913 He adopted the name Stalin (translates to ‘man of steel’ in Russia).
First Years of Soviet rule
After the fall of Tsarism, Stalin quickly made his way to Petrograd, Russia, where he was the senior Bolshevik and editor of Pravda (the party newspaper) until Lenin’s return from Switzerland. After Lenin’s return, Stalin remained in high councils for the party, but had very little involvement with the preparations for the October revolution, which placed the Bolsheviks in power.
Within the party, Stalin rose to the highest ranks, becoming a member of the Political Bureau and the Organization Bureau.
Stalin’s Rise to