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Josef Stalin - College Term Paper

Josef Stalin

was born in 1879, under the name Iosif
Vissarionich Dzhugashvili. He was born in Gori, which is now the Republic
of Georgia, and his parents were both Georgian peasants who did not know
how to speak Russian.
However, Stalin learned the Russian language at his school, a
Georgian church school, which he attended from 1888 to 1894. Here, he
earned a full scholarship to the Tbilisi Theological Seminary, where he
started reading and learning about the principles of Marxism. Stalin was
later expelled from the seminary for distributing Marxist propaganda, and
thus became a full-time revolutionary.
In 1899, Stalin began working as a propagandist for the Social-
Democratic party (A ...

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Alliluyeva, who later committed suicide in 1932.
Between 1905 and 1917, Stalin followed and supported the
Bolshevik party, and in 1907 he helped organize a bank holdup in Tbilisi to
expropriate funds for the Bolshevik cause.
He was selected by Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Central
Committee in 1912 and the following year he briefly edited the new party
newspaper, the Pravda (Truth). At Lenin's request he wrote his first major
work, Marxism and the Nationality Question. However, before this article
appeared in 1914, Stalin was sent to Siberia.
Following the Russian Revolution of February 1917, Stalin
returned to Petrograd (now known as Saint Petersburg), where he resumed
the editorship of Pravda.
In 1922 Stalin became secretary general. After Lenin's death,
he joined in a triumvirate with Grigory Zinovyev and Kamenev to lead the
country. With these temporary allies, Stalin acted against his arch-rival
Trotsky, having him and his supporters expelled ...

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Added: 1/5/2007 10:12:04 AM
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