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Joseph Stalin Biography - College Term Paper

Joseph Stalin Biography

Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori in Russia on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a weakness for alcohol, who left Gori when Stalin was young. Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, raised him until he was old enough to attend the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There he became a loyal advocate for Marxist revolution.
After leaving the Seminary in 1899, he joined the Social Democrats, a Marxist political party, and became a professional revolutionary. He worked in the port of Batumi, organizing worker protests, which led to his arrest in 1902. He escaped exile in Siberia, and for the next ten years, he would be arrested and exiled six ...

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the way for a Bolshevik coup in November of 1917. The new government, led by Lenin, made peace with the Germans and undertook a bloody, three-year civil war, in which Stalin was a commander. After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party and renamed Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Stalin was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1922. Before he died in 1924, Lenin wrote a Testament (Notable) warning against Stalin's stealthy rise to power. But the other members of Lenin's circle of advisers ignored the Testament and allowed Stalin to remain in a position of power. After that, Stalin rose to dominance by destroying his rival Trotsky, banning him from the Party in 1927 and exiling him from the Soviet Union in 1929. By 1930, he stood alone atop the Party and the Soviet Union.
Once in power, Stalin began a drive to industrialize and modernize the Soviet Union, with a Five-Year Plan (1927-1932) (Notable) based on Marxist ...

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Added: 5/25/2011 10:20:57 PM
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