Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili

Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Stalin) was born on the 21st of December in 1879 in Gori, Georgia, Russian empire to the parents of Vissarion Dzhugashvili and Ekaterina Geladze. When Stalin was 8 years old he began his education at a primary school in Gori. He continued his education at the Georgian Orthodox Seminary in Tifils but was later expelled in 1879. At this school was where Stalin first hear about the ideas Karl Marx and one of the reasons that Stalin was expelled for was trying to convert his fellow class mates to Marxism. Two years after being expelled Stalin joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. most of the leaders form the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party were living ’underground’ but Stalin stayed in Russia where he helped to organize industrial resistance to Tsarism. On 18th April, 1902, Stalin was arrested after coordinating a strike at the large Rothschild plant at Batum. After staying 18 months in jail Stalin was deported to Siberia. Joseph Stalin joined the Bolshevik party which was lead by Vladimir Lenin. Then in 1904 Stalin escaped from