Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Stalin) was born on the 21st of December in 1879 in Gori, Georgia, Russian empire to the parents of Vissarion Dzhugashvili and Ekaterina Geladze. When Stalin was 8 years old he began his education at a primary school in Gori. He continued his education at the Georgian Orthodox Seminary in Tifils but was later expelled in 1879. At this school was where Stalin first hear about the ideas Karl Marx and one of the reasons that Stalin was expelled for was trying to convert his fellow class mates to Marxism. Two years after being expelled Stalin joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. most of the leaders form the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party were living 'underground' but Stalin stayed in Russia where he helped to organize industrial resistance to Tsarism. On 18th April, 1902, Stalin was arrested after coordinating a strike at the large Rothschild plant at Batum. After staying 18 months in jail Stalin was deported to Siberia. Joseph Stalin joined the Bolshevik party which was lead by Vladimir Lenin. Then in 1904 Stalin escaped from Siberia and within a few moths he was back organising and coordinating demonstrations and strikes in Tiflis. Vladimir Lenin was impressed with Stalin and in 1905 he was invited to meet him in Finland. From then on Stalin continued to rise in the political ranks. In 1912 he was named to the Bolshevik Party Central Committee and then in 1917 he was named Commissar of the Nationalities after Bolshevik. In 1922 Stalin was Appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party. In 1928 Stalin began his five year plan to bring the U.S.S.R into the industrialize age. In 1929 after the death of Vladimir Lenin who was now the dictator of the U.S.S.R Stalin took over his position and began his reign over the U.S.S.R.