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Stalin Dies (1953) Losif Vissorionovich was born on the 18th December 1878 in Gori Georgia (Fischer, 1952).His mother Ketevan Geladzes ambition was for Joseph to become a bishop and she came up with the funds for his education and his father Besarion Jughashvili was an abusive alcoholic who became violent under the influence of alcohol (Fischer, 1952).Due to his mother’s efforts and his hard work Stalin a scholarship to attended a seminar however his father’s negative actions in 1890 resulted in an expulsion and this was the end of his scholarly life (McCauley, 2013).In 1973 Ketevan died of pneumonia on June 4th and in 1909 his father was killed by tuberculosis, colitis and chronic pneumonia on the 25th of August at Mikhailovsky Hospital in Tiflis (Fischer, 1952) . In 1912 he named his Stalin which is a Russian word for “man …show more content…

His condition and the details of his conditions were announced to the public on the 4th of March and on the 5th of March 1953 Stalin died at 74 years old in Kuntsevo, Moscow (Fischer, 1952). Stalin was then buried in Lenin’s Mausoleum Moscow from the 9th March 1953 to the 31st October 1961 he was his current tomb stone is on Kermiln wall Nercopolis in

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Research question: "Was Stalin's Great Terror in the late 1930s driven by a fear of foreign infiltration?" This investigation focuses on the late 1930s when the state-orchestrated purges were most intense. This investigation studies the purge of foreign elements who might betray the state during war. The purge of the Red Army and the intelligence apparatus is analysed in relation to the threat of these organisations being penetrated by foreign countries. The Kulak Operation is analysed in relation to the threat of foreign countries encouraging rebellion amongst kulaks.

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In Gori, Georgia, Dec 18, 1878 a couple just had a baby, the to lovebirds were Keke Geladze(his mother)and Besarion Jughashvili(his father). The child name was Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili or Joseph Stalin which is soon to be dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or (U.S.S.R). Joseph grew up poor and did not have any siblings and his father would beat him. At a young age Stalin got smallpox and got really bad scars. Stalin's original plan was to become a priest in a Georgian Orthodox Church but got interested in communism because of a book by Karl Marx.

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Although Russia won, many Russian civilians and soldiers died (“Joseph Stalin – Powerful Communist Ruler”). After World War 2, Stalin continued to dictate. Various examples of this were the initiation of purges, executions and exiles to labour camps to rid him of any opposition or other influences (“Joseph

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Process of Findings The first part of this report will discuss the evidence pertaining to the “genuinely concerned, pragmatic” side to Joseph Stalin’s leadership. Stalin was a leader who was honoured and praised by many of his people in the USSR for various reasons. He was portrayed on propaganda posters as a kind, caring and genuinely concerned leader particularly towards children who were the future of the USSR (Source A). By Stalin being portrayed as a leader who shows genuine concern and care for the children of his country, it propagates the message that children and the entire population of the USSR will have an “enlightened future” under his leadership13 (Source A), and would in turn help Stalin gain more support for himself.

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On December 18, 1879, in the Russian peasant village of Gori, Georgia, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, later known as Joseph Stalin, was born. The son of Besarion Jughashvili, a cobbler, and Ketevan Geladze, a washerwoman, Joseph was a frail child. At age 7, he contracted smallpox, leaving his face scarred. A few years later he was injured in a carriage accident which left arm slightly deformed, some accounts state his arm trouble was a result of blood poisoning from the injury. Joseph Stalin’s early life consist of the children in his village

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