Stalin
Stalin (1879-1953) Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born on December 21, 1879, in the village of Gori, Georgia. He was born to Vissarion and Yekaterina Dzhugashvili. His father Vissarion, was an unsuccessful cobbler who drank heavily and beat him savagely. When Iosif was 7, he caught smallpox, which scarred him for life, and then he came down with septicemia, which left his left arm slightly crippled for life. He lived in the 1920's a normal life, surrounded by many relatives who spoke their minds freely in the family circle, and he had good personal friends among the Soviet leadership. His life began to change, though, after the suicide of his second wife Nadezhda Allililuyeva in 1932, who left a letter incriminating him personally and politically. After that he became very paranoid, suspecting others-even those with whom he had been friends with for years. A complex man, he centered his life completely in his office. Although, he did allow public worship of himself on a scale rarely matched in any country in the 20th Century. In his personal life, he withdrew almost completely, living either in his Kremlin apartment or in his new country house at Kuntsovo, constantly surrounded by officers and bodyguards until his death.
" Later he changed his name to David, Soso, Chiijikov, Nijeradze, and finally, Stalin. Of course, when Stalin assumed total control over the Soviet Union he fully centralized the government according to his original suggestion. However, Lenin suggested that Trotsky might be the best man for the job. In January of 1912, Stalin was nominated by Lenin to the Central Committee--by now Lenin was quite impressed with Stalin's writings (which he generally worked on while in exile). · In this way Stalin with the help of the secret police, established his personal dictatorship over the party and the country. Stalin's name seldom appears in records of the revolution, for he remained in the background as an administrator. In 1918, he directed the successful defense of vital Tsaritsyn against the White Army. Krupskaya told this to Lenin several months later. Stalin, upon hearing of Lenin's death, was allegedly in a very joyful and jubilant mood. Then he led Russia to victory over one of the largest armies ever to invade a foreign land. He met resistance and criticism with mass deportations, executions, and show trials of alleged saboteurs. · In 1924, there were three primary factions that had sufficient power to seriously contend for control of the Party -- the Bukharinists (or Rightists), the Troskyites, and the newly-formed Troika (consisting of Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev). He had good reason to be -- the major obstacle in his drive for power was gone. · Stalin's mother, Yekaterina Geladze Dzhugashvili, worked as a house servant for various upper-class Georgian families.
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