Joseph Stalin: The Mysterious Twentieth Century Villain

Joseph Stalin

Many historians say that Joseph Stalin is one of the most know villains of the twentieth century to date but at the same time he is the least known about. He was photographed more than any other leader in that time period, but still was one of the most mysterious men. Many historians have said that there are two main reasons that his life is a puzzle, the first thing is that there are no family records whatsoever, no letters, no diaries, or photographs, it is as if his family did not exist at all. Another reason that Stalin’s life remains so shadowy is the fact that he ordered his biography and even the Soviet Union’s history books to be changed constantly to make it appear he had done thing that he had not, with each rewrite

the older copies were destroyed, and the more credit he gave to himself. Although his adulthood and early child years would be very useful to some historians, it is near to impossible to find any document before 1989 when the soviet union collapsed. The same year soviet records were opened to the public eye, the records, which had been compiled together by other leaders, even had some information about Stalin, even the KGB, the soviet secret police, had much needed information on Stalin. So we will begin during his childhood.
Stalin was born iosif vissarionnovich Dzhugashvili on what many and most historians to be December 21 , 1879.

He was born in the country modernly known as Georgia in the town of gori, which was located between the black and Caspian seas. Its western border consists of the province of Azerbaijan and to the south was the country known as turkey. Georgia was a mountainous country and proved a formidable obstacle to invading armies. Stalin was the only surviving child of his parent who was married in 1874. He had three older brothers but they sadly all died in infancy. His father worked as a shoe repairer and his mother worked as a maid. Stalin's father, nicknamed beso, had grown up I a family that had a history for violence, his father had gotten into so many fights he had got sent to jail, his older brother as stabbed to death in a drunken brawl and he, on his own wedding day, instead of taking part in the activities fought one of his wife's relativizes. beso and his wife who was nicknamed keke lived in a room above the shoe shop the small spaces and besos temper did not mix well and when he drank it was even worse. Stalin grew up watching his mother get beaten by his father, stalins mother complained to her neighbors saying that beso would pick Stalin up over his head and slam him onto the ground.one day his mother began to fight back, and after being beaten unconscious by his wife, bero left Georgia. Whenever his mother became head of the house she took out her hatred on Stalin beating him for even the tiniest mistake. in September 1888 Stalin attended gori church school for witch he graduated 1894. By the time he had reached adolescence Stalin had reached his full Hight of five feet and four inches tall. by this time his mother wanted him to further his education and becoming a priest was the highest honor for someone of stalins background. Around this time tsar alexander the second had just been assassinated and his son tsar alexander the third planned to

reverse the things his father had done to help the people of stalins studious. Just as Stalin was getting used to things the tsar made laws that sent the country into anarchy. this was the beginning of stalins future.by the time that Stalin had enrolled in school yet again teachers were abusive to students and students were abusive in return. Despite this stalin seemed to fit in well with the students and was egar to exel in his studies and was ranke high in his first year, his second year however, teachers began to seacrh lockers for banned peices of political writing, stalin lead a reblion agents this idea. With him leading the charge students began to smuggle more and more banned pieces into the school. he has stated " I joined the revolution at the age of 16" in regards to the schools policiy. During this time inhis life reading banned books that he first read the words of karl marx. Many years earlier marx, a German philosipher, had written the book the communist manifesto, in this book marx predicted that the workers of the world would rebel aganst capitalist and in the process create a world wide classless society. This impacted stalins life so much that he refused to interact anything that he found to be capitalist, doing so he was expelled from school because he refused to take his final exams. At the begining of the twentiath century russia had became the largest country in the world. in the 1890s oil was discovered in southern russia, suddenly russia went from a land full of scattered peasent villages to one of the biggest oil nations of that time. Most of the peasents got jobs on oil fields, factorys, and other bussnessious. In response to this newfound popularity the cza and his enforcers were more strict than ever before, the had laws enforced by the secret police that turned workers into slaves.meanwhile stain thried his best to hold onto his first job as an acountant, until one day the RSDRP broke into his office in search of any contriband they found none bt stalin was fired because his employers did not want to have anything to do with a suspect of the RSDRP. after that stalin never held any other job title, he then devoted his life twords revolution. sadly this life was no wlk in the park, he had to live the same life that other radicals had, living day after day in a samll celar know as a safe house, living on one small meal a day, where the same cloths every day, and carry around fake id papers in case he ran into the police. knowing this stalin still apeared and held workers rights meetings , he mostly spoke of the theorys of marx.as soon as the police caught onto this however he was exiled fom russia, but was sent back to his ome town where he helped orginize protests by workers against the local police.he was later captured however, but with his background histoy he realized he had in common with the other prizoners. he showed his strenght by refuseing the guards orders to bow , this single act alone made him extemly popular amog the prison, and he soon became the lader of all the prizoners. Later during stalins imprisonment he began to hear rumors of a new political power at rise, this powers name was valdemier lenin.he had a vision of one person in charge and th rest of the commite below them, an upgraded version of the loose commites that had no leaders at the time. Around the time that stalin had come to familiarize himself with lenin he had been sectenced to three years in exile.the worse the crime that you have commited the worse place you got exilled to. Even though this was true stalin was somehow able to sneak back into the russian boarder, and he then dedicated his life to revolution. Afterwards he helped lenin in any way shape or form that he could, whenever lenin called upon the bolshiveks to attack police men , stalin was the first one to gather troops. Adn by then nearly every person in russia knew the name Josief Stalin.