Joseph Stalin Research Paper

Stalin is what happens when a man gains too much power. Stalin grew up to be one of the most evil man to walk the face of this earth. Stalin went from a poor family to the leader of the Soviet Union and he is partially responsible for World War II. Joseph Stalin, whose original name was Ioseb Dzhugashvili, was born on December of 1879. Stalin was of Georgian origin and he grew up in the town of Gori, Georgia. Stalin grew up in a poor family as an only child. His father was a shoemake and his mother was a laundress. His father, who was an alcoholic, would beat his son. In his teens he earned a scholarship to attend a seminary in the city of Tblisi and study for the priesthood in the Georgian Orthodox Church. During that time he began reading the “Communist Manifesto”, the work of Karl Marx and he became interested in the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. Stalin was later expelled from the seminary in 1899 for missing exams but Joseph claimed it was for Marist propaganda.

In 1900 he joined the political underground and took part in labor demonstrations and strikes. Stalin married a Georgian girl, Ekaterina Svanidze in 1904. She passed away three years later and left a son named Jacob. When Jacob was taken prisoner by the Germans, Stalin refused an offer to save his son. In 1912 he was given a promotion when Lenin co-opted him to serve on the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in November 1917, which lead to the Soviet Union being founded in 1922, with Lenin as its leader. In the years to follow, Stalin continued to move up in ranks and became secretary general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Lenin passed away 1924 and Stalin gained control of the Communist Party becoming dictator of the Soviet Union. In the 1930s,the Great Purge was established, which was designed to rid the of Soviet Union from any