Joseph

Stalin

Stalins Birth
Gori, Georgia
December 21, 1879
Iosif Vissarionovich
Dzugashvili
Father was a
shoemaker
Mother was a
housekeeper

Josephs Father
An abusive alcoholic
Left family to work in Tiflis,
Georgia when Joseph was 5
Died in 1890

Stalins Mother
Yekaterina
Deeply religious
Wanted Joseph to be a priest
Worked hard to pay for
Josephs school

Childhood
Father abused Joseph
After his father left, Joseph
and Yekaterina lived with a
priest
Enrolled in Orthodox parochial
school in 1888.

Stalin as a Priest
1894 got scholarship to
seminary
Got highest marks on
behavior and grades
In his fourth year, he
joined Mesame Dasi
Expelled from seminary

Revolutionary Apprentice
Joined Social Democratic Party in
1901
Did full-time revolutionary work
1905 Served as party organizer
Met Lenin at conference in
Finland

Exile
December 1911 Stalin was exiled to
Vologda.
January 1912 broke away from party
and met in Prague
Lenin co-opted Stalin into government
March 1912 Stalin escaped from exile
and went to St. Petersburg

Return to Exile
1913 Stalin and Lenin met in Vienna
to write Marxism and the National
Problem
March 7, 1913 After he returned to St.
Petersburg, Stalin was arrested.
While in Siberia, he changed his
name to Stalin (man of steel)

Czar Loses Power

The Czars abdication on March 15, 1917
led to great social and political chaos
Stalin and Lenin agreed that they should
overthrow the temporary Russian
government
Both urged seizure of power at party
debates, but neither had a role in
organizing the insurrection itself

Early Soviet Regime

Held cabinet post of commissar for
nationalities for the next five years
Served in different positions during the
civil war
Acting inspector general of the Red Army
and as a political commissar.
1921 He initiated the brutal reconquest of
independent Georgia.

Stalin Gains Power

Lenin died in 1924
1925 Stalin got rid of Trotsky
1926 ousted Kamenev and
Zinviev
Got rid of the rest of the cabinet
1928 Almost had total control

Stalins Politics
Deportation and execution of kulaks
Forced entrance of peasants into
collective farms
Nationalization of all industry and
commerce
Execution and deportation of those
who opposed his plans

Stalins Dictatorship
Dissatisfaction may have led to secret plot
to replace Stalin with Sergei Kirov
December 1934 Kirov was murdered
Stalin executed almost entire political and
military elite
Millions of Soviet citizens were forced into
labor camps

World War II
Stalin took comand of Soviet
forces
Ordered brilliant counteroffensives at Moscow, Stalingrad,
and Kursk.
Arranged for lend-lease from the
Western Powers

Post-War USSR
Stalin almost completely
restored the pre-war system
Molded occupied countries in
the Stalinist image and placed
under Moscows control

Stalins End
1952 Stalin began preparing for old
leadership ways
He met with stout resistance
Before he could begin his old ways,
Stalin died of a brain hemorrhage on
March 5, 1953, in Moscow