| Ioseph Vissarionovich Stalin, better known as | | | | parents. His school was taught in Russian (instead |
| Joseph Stalin, was a paranoid leader who | | | | of his native Georgian language) and he was |
| butchered more of his own people than anyone | | | | constantly mocked for his poor accent. Stalin's |
| other than perhaps Mao. | | | | mother wanted him to become a priest, so after |
| Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovicn Dzhugashvili) is | | | | grammar school, he attended seminary - not |
| best known as the dictator who brought the | | | | because he wanted to be a priest himself, but |
| Communist Party to its full power in Russia. As | | | | because other schooling wasn't available. At the |
| the General Secretary of the Central Committee | | | | seminary, he first became associated with the |
| of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | | | | socialist party (specifically, the branch of the party |
| starting in 1922, Stalin managed to grasp full | | | | that became the communist party). |
| power over the Soviet Union and held it until his | | | | Here is where Stalin changes. In 1899, Stalin quit |
| death on March 5, 1953. The rise of Stalin, | | | | the seminary and started propagandizing Marxism. |
| however, started in a less eventful way. | | | | He started working with the political underground |
| The rise of Stalin started in the Russian state of | | | | between 1902 and 1917, resulting in many |
| Georgia in the year 1878. He was not born with | | | | instances of being jailed and exiled to Siberia. |
| the name of Stalin, but adopted it in the year | | | | After the Revolution of 1905, Stalin was |
| 1913, taking the name from the Russian word for | | | | responsible for leading "fighting squads" in bank |
| "steel". Much of his early life is not well | | | | robberies in order to raise funds for the Bolshevik |
| documented, with few people knowing his history. | | | | party. By 1912, he was integral enough to the |
| His mother was born a serf, and her other | | | | Communist Party that he was appointed to the |
| children (Stalin's siblings) died young, leaving him as | | | | Central Committee. From there, he became a |
| an only child. Stalin's father was a cobbler who lost | | | | brutal, de facto dictator who butchered his people |
| his own business and was forced to go work in a | | | | right and left. |
| shoe factory. He rarely saw his wife and child, but | | | | Stalin's early life was one of struggle and |
| when he did, Stalin's father brutally beat his family. | | | | oppression. Given this fact, it is probably not |
| Joseph Stalin's childhood education took place in | | | | surprising that he ruled with an evil, iron fist. Nor is |
| the Gori Church School, where he was taught | | | | it particularly sudden 'natural" death was probably |
| alongside the children of richer, more influential | | | | an assassination by Beria, one of his henchmen. |