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             unimpressed by Lenin in their first meeting.
             In June of 1904 Stalin had already been married to
             Yekaterina Svanidze, who was a simple peasant girl who was
             devoted to him. She died on April 10, 1907, leaving a son, named
             Yakov Dzhugashvili. Joseph Stalin was expelled from the
             Georgian Social Democratic Party in 1907 also, for taking part in a
             series of bank robberies and other crimes. Not long after, he
             migrated to Baku, and founded a Bolshevist group among the
             Baku socialists. In 1908 Stalin was sentenced to another two years
             of exile, in which he escaped from in 1909 , and was arrested
             March of 1910. In January of 1912, he was nominated by Lenin to
             the Central Committee. Stalin was rejected for service in the
             Russian Army in 1916, {When Russia was at war with the Central
             powers} because of the condition of his left arm. In March of
             1917, Stalin immediately left Siberia, were he was still in exile, for
             modern St. Petersburg, because of the revolution led by Alexander
             Kerensky which freed all political pioneers. On March 25 of 1917
             he joined the editorial board of Pravada, which was headed by Lev
             Kamenev. There he helped Lenin prepare final plans for the
             history-making Bolshevick revolution. Stalin's work was largely
             responsible for the success of the October Revolution in 1917.
             Afterwards during the civil war that followed the revolution, Stalin
             served as a political commissar with Bolshevik armies o
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