Stalin

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JOSEF STALIN: Born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili to a modest home in Gori, Georgia, Joseph Stalin excelled as school, and went on to Orthodox Christian Studies, during which he would read illegal Karl Marx literature. In 1899 he quit his religious studies and joined a revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. In 1903 he joined the Vladimir Lenin’s militant Bolshevik (Communist) faction after a split from the Social Democratic Labour Party. To him the Communists were “Russians and real men.” During the 1905 revolution, he organised terrorist attacks on police, and played a key role in planning crimes to help create an income for the Communist party. In 1908 he was arrested and exiled for his illegal underground activities as a loyal follower of Lenin. He escaped, and more arrests and exiles followed, including being exiled to Siberia in 1913 for revolut...