Josef Stalin Research Paper

Josef Stalin
“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem” - Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin was as powerful and unprincipled as any dictator in history. He transformed the soviet union from a peasant society to a global superpower. But the human cost was staggering. Twice as many people killed under stalin’s regime than were killed by hitler. Yet when stalin died many in russia wept.
Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili also know as josef stalin was was born in the small town of Gori, in czarist Georgia, in eighteen seventy nine. His father was a poor shoemaker and a alcoholic.. His mother was a literate peasant who worked as a laundress. Stalin contracted smallpox which left him with lifelong scars on his face. Because of this the other village children treated him cruelly. Stalin's father was killed in a fight when joseph was eleven year. After the death of his father stalin's mother decided to put him in a orthodox priesthood called Tiflis Theological Seminary. During this time stalin began secretly reading the work of German social philosopher Karl Marx. Josef became

He quickly rejected Orthodox teaching as well as any form of religion in favor of atheism. He was expelled from the priesthood in eighteen ninety nine because of his involvement in a anti-czarist group. After leaving school, Stalin became an underground political agitator. He took part in labor demonstrations and strikes. In 1902 stalin was arrested and sent to prison in Siberia. While in exile he changed his name from Joseph Dzhugashvili to Joseph Stalin. The name will suit him well. Stalin means “man of steel.” When Russian Marxism split into two different factions the moderate Mensheviks and the radical Bolsheviks Stalin sided with the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks were the more militant wing of the Marxist Social Democratic movement. They were led by Vladimir Lenin. Stalin also became