Joseph Stalin was a Georgian Marxist revolutionary leader and later dictator of the USSR. He was born in Gori, Georgia. He studied at Tiflis Orthodox where he was expelled from in 1899. After joining a Georgian Social Democratic organization in 1898, he became active in a revolutionary undergroun...

Joseph Stalin was born on December 21, 1879, and grew up in poverty. He was the only child in his family to grow to adulthood. Joseph was born to Catherine and Vissarion Djugashvili. Joseph's father was a drunk and beat his son and wife unmercifully. His father was a cobbler by trade and wanted his...