

Stalin escaped but went into hiding so the police could not find him. The police raided his house in 1901 while hunting for people who opposed the government.

They wanted a different type of government. He joined groups that were trying to start a revolution to remove the Tsar. Stalin left school in 1899 and got a job at the Tbilisi Physical Institute. He joined a Marxist group in 1898, the Mesame Dasi, or Group Three. He was an active student reading many books, especially books that were not allowed by the seminary. Stalin studied to be a priest at a seminary (school for priests) in Tbilisi. He was educated at the Gori church school. His left arm was also shorter because of an accident. Later, photographs were often changed to hide the scars. His father was often drunk and used to hit his wife and his son until his death in a fight in 1890. Ioseb Vissarionovich Jugashvili was born on December 18th, 1878 in a small one room house in Gori, Georgia. He began calling himself "Stalin" in 1912. Stalin was born as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili or Iosif Dzhugashvili. There, a series of loyal Marxist-Leninist single-party states were set up, extending his power and determining the Soviet Union's position as a superpower. And after the end of the war Stalin gained control of all Eastern Europe including part of Germany. He then led a bloody war after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. In the subsequent World War II, Stalin stayed neutral but signed a peace deal with Germany's leader Adolf Hitler. Stalin invaded Poland on 18 September 1939. His way of thinking was called Marxism-Leninism, and his form of government was later called Stalinism. His ideas and policies turned the Soviet Union into a powerful, relatively modern country, as the largest on Earth. He replaced Vladimir Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin (born as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian politician who became leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953 from a cerebral haemorrhage. Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow (from 31 October 1961)īesarion Jughashvili and Ekaterine Geladze Kuntsevo Dacha, Kuntsevo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union People's Commissar for Defense of the Soviet Union General secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
