Essay About Joseph Stalin And Georgian Background

Joeseph Stalin
Essay title: Joeseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was a man who had many accomplishments in his lifetime. He was a
family man, a business man, and a political leader of one of the worlds largest super
powers. He is noted for having control over more people for a greater amount of time
than anyone before or since his time. He is compared to Ghengis Kahn and Ivan the
terrible. Stalin had a unique way of thinking and governing this became known as
Stalinism He had thoughts and ideas that affect our world even today.
Joseph Stalin was born in1879 by the name Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashville on
the twenty-first of December in the small town of Gori Georgia into a poor poverty
stricken family. His father was an unsuccessful cobbler he was also an alcoholic who
beat Joseph mercilessly, and was killed in a bar fight were he was stabbed to
death. Stalins mother was more supportive of him, Her name was Ekiterena She
was a simple washerwoman who had hoped for Joseph to become a priest. Joseph
Had no siblings, he was the last born child and only to survive infancy. His mother was
said to be very attentive to him, it is said that “her attentiveness encouraged Stalin to self-
idolization, while the deprivations of his childhood may have made compensatory life
physiologically indispensable. In any event young Stalin given to identify with hero-like
figures” (William G. Rosenberg) This is why he was given his nick name Koba after a
fictional mountain hero. His family squalor gave him ambition and an acute
Consciousness on class, but his Georgian background also taught him a bit of brutality
and vengeance. In 1893 Stalin entered Tifilis Theological Seminary “the discipline there
was another impetus toward revolutionary activism.” (Joseph Stalin). Soon after in 1898
he was involved in radical political activity. And in the next year he left the seminary
before he graduated and became a revolutionary organizer by 1901 he was a member of
the Georgian branch of the social democratic party. He roamed the caucuses, agitating
among co workers, he helped with strikes, and spreading socialist literature he had no
charisma or oral skill but seamed to be talented at practical organization, and in his dull
appearance concealed a genuine genius and an acute memory which helped him in
several ways. Later in 1903 the social democrats split into two groups leaving Stalin to
choose which side to join, the sides were the Boshlevics and the Mensheviks. Joseph
chose the more radical Boshlevics, and to support their leader who was Vladimire Iich
Lenin. Lenin appreciated Stalins personal loyalty to his country and to Lenin. Over the
years between 1902 and 1913 Stalin was arrested repeatedly, but every time escaped to
continue being an organizer for the Boshleviks, it is even said he helped stage bank
robberies to help fund the Boshlivik campaign. Then later Lenin rewarded Joseph by
cooping him to the Boshlivik central committee. The he gained influence and power at a
rapid pace among the Boshliviks. Soon after he became the first editor of the pravda
which was the news