Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born December 21st
was the fourth child to his parents after the first three died of bad health issues. His mother was
an in home washer, taking in other people clothing and his father was a boot maker. These jobs
did not make Iosifs’ parents immensely wealthy. They had to live in poverty like the rest of the
peasant Russians had to endure towards the end of the 19th
attained a place for him to learn at the local church school, Iosif, at the age of seven, survived
small pox. This disease left scars all over his face causing other children to call him “Pock”.
Iosifs mother obtained a place in the local church school for her son in 1888 from her
religious background. He progressed well, despite his health problems, and soon received a free
scholarship to the Tiflis Theological Seminary. When he was an occupant at Tiflis he joined
Messame Dassy, a secret organization where members support Georgian independence from the
Soviet Union. This is the time and place where Iosif came in contact with the ideas of Karl
Marx, a German social philosopher, and became involved in the revolutionary movement against
Iosif was expelled from Tiflis in May 1899. This was caused from several reasons people
believed such as reading forbidden books and disrespecting the authority. It was later founded
after his death that he was expelled for trying to convert his other classmates to Marxism. For six
months, after he was expelled, Iosif was unemployed and became an active member in
underground politics, such as labor strikes and demonstrations. In the early year of 1900 he
found work by teaching private lessons to middle class children. Several months after beginning
this job, Iosif ...
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making the Soviet Union into an economic powerhouse.
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