Joseph Stalin was a man who had many accomplishments in his lifetime. He was a family man, a business man, and a political leader of one of the worlds largest super powers. He is noted for having control over more people for a greater amount of time than anyone before or since his time. He is compared to Ghengis Kahn and Ivan the terrible. Stalin had a unique way of thinking and governing this became known as Stalinism He had thoughts and ideas that affect our world even today.
Joseph Stalin was born in1879 by the name Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashville on the twenty-first of December in the small town of Gori Georgia into a poor poverty tricken family. His father was an unsuccessful cobbler he was also an alcoholic who beat Joseph mercilessly, and was killed in a bar fight were he was stabbed to death. Stalin’s mother was more supportive of him, Her name was Ekiterena She was a simple washerwoman who had hoped for Joseph to become a priest.
Joseph Had no siblings, he was the last born child and only to survive infancy. His mother was said to be very attentive to him, it is said that “her attentiveness encouraged Stalin to self- idolization, while the deprivations of his childhood may have made compensatory life hysiologically indispensable. In any event young Stalin given to identify with hero-like figures” (William G. Rosenberg) This is why he was given his nick name Koba after a fictional mountain hero.
His family squalor gave him ambition and an acute Consciousness on class, but his Georgian background also taught him a bit of brutality and vengeance. In 1893 Stalin entered Tifilis Theological Seminary “the discipline there was another impetus toward revolutionary activism. ” (Joseph Stalin). Soon after in 1898 he was involved in radical political activity. And in the next year he left the seminary efore he graduated and became a revolutionary organizer by 1901 he was a member of the Georgian branch of the social democratic party.
He roamed the caucuses, agitating among co workers, he helped with strikes, and spreading socialist literature he had no charisma or oral skill but seamed to be talented at practical organization, and in his dull appearance concealed a genuine genius and an acute memory which helped him in several ways. Later in 1903 the social democrats split into two groups leaving Stalin to choose which side to join, the sides were the Boshlevics and the Mensheviks. Joseph hose the more radical Boshlevics, and to support their leader who was Vladimire Iich Lenin.
Lenin appreciated Stalin’s personal loyalty to his country and to Lenin. Over the years between 1902 and 1913 Stalin was arrested repeatedly, but every time escaped to continue being an organizer for the Boshleviks, it is even said he helped stage bank robberies to help fund the Boshlivik campaign. Then later Lenin rewarded Joseph by cooping him to the Boshlivik central committee. The he gained influence and power at a rapid pace among the Boshliviks. Soon after he became the first editor of the pravda hich was the news paper for his political party.
He then started using the name Stalin which means man of steel in the Russian language. Not long after the Boshliviks were founded and thriving as a political party Stalin was exiled to Siberia by the tsarist government were he stayed until the march revolution, it was then he came back and played an important part in the Boshlivik party after the first unsuccessful attempt to seize power of Russia. In 1922 Stalin became general secretary of the party’s central committee he now controlled appointments, set agendas, and could transfer thousands of arty officials from post to post on a whim.
In 1924 after the death of Lenin Stalin used his control over the party to crush his opponent so he could take the Lenin’s position. By 1928 after much fighting Stalin took full control of Russia as it’s dictator under the slogan socialism is one country having full control Stalin would use his power to crush all who doubted his genius. Bur soon Stalin would be involved in the second world war were he made a pact with Adolph Hitler that he would not bother Hitler and Hitler would leave Russia alone for two years.
Stalin fought against Hitler with the United States of America until Hitler was crushed. Soon after world war II in 2953 Stalin feel ill and died Suddenly. It is said that before he died he asked his two likely successors. He asked for two birds, when he got them he told them to hold the birds in their hands the first held so tightly the bird died in his hands. The second was so scared he held the bird loosely it flew away. Stalin was angered he asked for another bird and held it between his fingers and plucked its feathers one by one until it was naked. Then he said, see it’s even glad for the human warmth from my hand.
