Joseph Stalin Presentation

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Stalin’s Birth • Gori, Georgia• December 21, 1879

• Iosif VissarionovichDzugashvili• Father was a

shoemaker• Mother was a

housekeeper



Joseph’s Father • An abusive alcoholic• Left family to work in Tiflis,

Georgia when Joseph was 5• Died in 1890



Stalin’s Mother • Yekaterina• Deeply religious• Wanted Joseph to be a priest• Worked hard to pay for

Joseph’s school



Childhood• Father abused Joseph• After his father left, Joseph

and Yekaterina lived with apriest

• Enrolled in Orthodox parochialschool in 1888.



Stalin as a Priest• 1894 got scholarship to

seminary

• Got highest marks onbehavior and grades

• In his fourth year, he joined Mesame Dasi• Expelled from seminary

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Revolutionary Apprentice• Joined Social Democratic Party in

1901

• Did full-time revolutionary work• 1905 Served as party organizer

• Met Lenin at conference inFinland



Exile• December 1911 Stalin was exiled to

Vologda.

• January 1912 broke away from partyand met in Prague• Lenin co-opted Stalin into government• March 1912 Stalin escaped from exile

and went to St. Petersburg



Return to Exile• 1913 Stalin and Lenin met in Vienna

to write Marxism and the National

Problem

• March 7, 1913 After he returned to St.Petersburg, Stalin was arrested.

• While in Siberia, he changed hisname to Stalin (man of steel)



Czar Loses Power• The Czar’s abdication on March 15, 1917

led to great social and political chaos• Stalin and Lenin agreed that they should

overthrow the temporary Russiangovernment

• Both urged seizure of power at partydebates, but neither had a role inorganizing the insurrection itself



Early Soviet Regime• Held cabinet post of commissar for

nationalities for the next five years• Served in different positions during the

civil war• Acting inspector general of the Red Army

and as a political commissar.• 1921 He initiated the brutal reconquest of

independent Georgia.



Stalin Gains Power• Lenin died in 1924• 1925 Stalin got rid of Trotsky• 1926 ousted Kamenev and

Zinviev

• Got rid of the rest of the cabinet• 1928 Almost had total control



Stalin’s Politics • Deportation and execution of kulaks• Forced entrance of peasants into

collective farms• Nationalization of all industry and

commerce• Execution and deportation of those

who opposed his plans



Stalin’s Dictatorship • Dissatisfaction may have led to secret plot

to replace Stalin with Sergei Kirov• December 1934 Kirov was murdered• Stalin executed almost entire political and

military elite

• Millions of Soviet citizens were forced intolabor camps



World War II• Stalin took comand of Soviet

forces

• Ordered brilliant counter-offensives at Moscow, Stalingrad,and Kursk.

• Arranged for lend-lease from theWestern Powers



Post-War USSR• Stalin almost completely

restored the pre-war system• Molded occupied countries in

the Stalinist image and placed

under Moscow’s control



Stalin’s End • 1952 Stalin began preparing for old

leadership ways• He met with stout resistance• Before he could begin his “old ways”,

Stalin died of a brain hemorrhage onMarch 5, 1953, in Moscow

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