Joseph Stalin

 For the past 6 weeks, we have picked a topic for inquiry I have chosen Joseph Stalin other people have picked a different topic I have picked Joseph Stalin I find this topic interesting because it relates to many different topics. 

Introduction 

This is my inquiry of Joseph Stalin’s early life How he came to power and what basically happened during his life I hope you learn something and this makes some people interested in the subject.

Joseph Stalin led the soviet union to kill 20 million people in WW2(World War 2). Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the soviet socialist republics between 1878 to 1953. Under Stalin, the soviet union went for a pleasant society into Stalin’s army.

Hitler and Stalin signed a truce basically but that broke apart in June of 1941 because Hitler attacked the soviet union but he underestimated Stalin. To solidate his power his snipers shot kids going to fill up the german soldiers canteens. He was the most feared man in Russia he led the soviet union to victory against Germany. 

Stalin’s real name is Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili he was born on the December 18th 1878, December 6th, 1878, according to the Old Style Julian calendar (although he later invented a new birth date for himself. As a boy, Stalin was poor and bet by his father

” I believe that is why Stalin grew up so angry and wanted power”.

Stalin’s father was a shoemaker also he was an alcoholic. 

“which would be one of the many reasons that he was bet"

His mother was a laundress. As a boy, Stalin contracted smallbox, this is what left stalin with a longlife of facial scars. As a teen, he earned a scholarship to attend a seminary in the nearby city of Tblisi and study for the priesthood in the Georgian Orthodox Church. 

After growing up in Georgia, Stalin became a political activist, conducting discreet activities for the Bolshevik Party for twelve years before the Russian Revolution in 1917. Following the October Revolution, Stalin took military positions in the Russian Civil War and the Polish-Soviet War. Stalin was one of the Bolsheviks' chief operatives in the Caucasus and grew close to leader Vladimir Lenin, who saw him as a tough character, and a loyal follower capable of getting things done behind the scenes. Stalin played a decisive role in engineering the 1921 Red Army invasion of Georgia, adopting a hardline approach to opposition. Stalin's connections helped him to gain influential positions behind the scenes in the Soviet-Russian government.