Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

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Of course, you know that the name Stalin is a pseudonym. Iosif Dzhugashvili was born in 1878 in Georgia, which was then part of the vast Russian Empire. He was the son of a housewife and a simple shoemaker. Vissarion, his father, an alcoholic and rowdy, was arrested after an attack on the city police chief.

In 1894, 16-year-old Joseph received a grant to study at the elementary Russian Orthodox Seminary. By the end of the first year, Dzhugashvili Jr. firmly decided that he did not believe in God.

Despite his convictions, Joseph remained in the seminary until 1899, then he was expelled - Dzhugashvili did not pass the final exam. But then the young man was thinking about something completely different: he was carried away by the writings of Lenin and joined a Marxist political group.

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Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

The future leader took his first pseudonym while still in the seminary. He called himself Koba and demanded that his comrades call him the same. This is the name of the hero from Joseph's favorite novel "The Parricide", written by Alexander Kazbegi. In the novel, Koba is a young peasant who can easily be called a "noble robber", only, unlike Robin Hood, more realistic.

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

1901 Stalin at the age of 23.

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

1894 15-year-old Iosif Dzhugashvili.

After leaving the church school, Stalin worked at a weather station until 1901, then finally became an underground revolutionary. Koba staged rallies, started riots, and relentlessly wrote articles for underground propaganda leaflets. In 1904 he joined Lenin's new Bolshevik group.

In 1911, Koba takes on his second and final pseudonym, which for the next few decades will inspire fear and respect throughout the world - he begins to call himself Stalin.

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

1901 Pictures of Koba from police archives.

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

1906

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

March 1908. Photos of Stalin after his arrest.

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

Personal file of Joseph Stalin. The profile was opened after his arrest in Baku in 1910.

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

1911

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

1911

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

1911 Pictures taken by the secret police in St. Petersburg.

During the First World War, Joseph Stalin never visited the front. As a child, he twice fell under the wheels of a horse-drawn carriage, because of which he received serious injuries to his left hand and was released from service. In April 1917, at the Congress of the Communist Party, Stalin was elected to the Central Committee. Six months later, the Committee voted in favor of a revolution that subsequently led to civil war.

In less than 10 years, Joseph Stalin will become the General Secretary of the Communist Party. Along with the appointment, the leader received a number of nicknames that have firmly entrenched him among the people: the Genius of Humanity, the Great Architect of Communism, and many others.

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

1915 Stalin (second row, third from left) with a group of Bolsheviks in the village of Turukhansk, Russia.

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

1917

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

1918

Young Joseph Stalin, as the party did not know him

Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin and Mikhail Kalinin in 1919.

Keywords: Communism | Personality cult | USSR | Photography

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