Joseph Stalins Rain
Joseph Stalin, Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born on December 21, 1879, in the village of Gori, Georgia. ... Stalin (1879-1953) Table of Contents This is divided into sections based on each significant period of Stalins life. ... Summary Stalins Childhood: (1879-1897) Stalins birthplace, the village of Gori. · Stalins birth name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. ... · Stalins father was named Vissarion Dzhugashvili; he was an unsuccessful cobbler. ... · Stalins mother, Yekaterina Geladze Dzhugashvili, worked as a house servant for various upper-class Georgian families. ... Back to Top Stalins Early Career: (1897-1917) · Stalin was expelled from the seminary in 1899, when he was about to graduate. ... · Until 1917, Stalins life consisted of continual imprisonment, exiles, and escapes. In January of 1912, Stalin was nominated by Lenin to the Central Committee--by now Lenin was quite impressed with Stalins writings (which he generally worked on while in exile). ... Back to Top Stalins Military Career: (1917-1921) · In March 1917, Stalin immediately left Siberia (where he was still in exile) for Petrograd (modern St. ... Stalins name seldom appears in records of the revolution, for he remained in the background as an administrator. ... The city was renamed Stalingrad in his honor in 1925, but the name was later changed in the 1950s and 60s to Volgograd to downgrade Stalins importance. Back to Top Stalins Slow Rise to Power: (1921-1928) · In 1921, Stalin led the invasion that won his homeland, Georgia, for the Communists, or Bolsheviks as they now called themselves. ... · By March of 1923, Lenin had learned of Stalins phone call; this discovery, coupled with Stalins ruthlessness in dealing with Georgia (see above), prompted Lenin to begin seriously planning Stalins removal from power.