Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin is a Soviet Politician, Theorist and General Secretary of The Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Early Life and Rise to Power:
Stalin was born in Gori, Gerogia in the Russian Empire on 18 December 1878, grew up in poverty. His parents were Besarion Jughashvili and Ekaterine Geladze. His father was a shoemaker, however after his business he became a heavy alcoholic and regularly beat his family. When, he was young, he suffered smallpox and injured his arm, leaving lasting physical scars. His hard life, combined with his growing radicalism, led him to leave his studies to be a priest and pursue his career as a revolutionary.
Stalin joined The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898, he became known as an organizer as he would organize strike's. In 1902 and was sent to exile in Siberia however, he escaped and returned to Tiflis in 1904. At the Tampere conference of 1905 he meet Lenin and by 1907 established himself as "Georgia's leading Bolshevik", and was behind the Tiflis bank robbery that boasted the Bolsheviks funds.
By 1912, he was on the first Bolshevik Central Committee, he was repeatedly arrested and exiled throughout 1913 to 1914.
World War 1 and Revolution:
In 1916, he and other exiled Bolsheviks were conscripted into the Russian Army however he was rejected for service because of his arm. Stalin helped organize the July Days uprising, an armed display of strength by supporters of the Bolsheviks. During the Civil War, he served as political commissar in the southern front. He clashed with men like Leon Trotsky and Taushev Aleskeevich over political and strategical differences.
Post-Civil War:
Stalin was appointed as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the early years of 1919 after the Bolshevik's victory in December 1918. His rivalry's intensifying as Stalin opposed, permeant revolution and instead promotes a 'Socialism in one country' foreign policy to complete control over the Union. Stalin formed his own faction, "Stalinist's" that promote prioritizing heavy industrialization, collectivization, and state control of agriculture and resources to strengthen the Soviet economy and military.
Stalin often moves in the background, he is simply biding his time to take the reins of the Union after Lenins death.
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