Soviet politician, born in Georgia and led the Soviet Union, wanted by his mother a cleric and founded a system that fights religions, under which his country knew the cruelest form of dictatorship, but he put it in the ranks of the major countries, he played a pivotal role in defeating the Nazis and his prize was Eastern Europe.
Born and brought up Joseph Stalin (whose full name is Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin) was born on December 18, 1879 in the Georgian city of Gori, to a cobbler father and a peasant mother.
Study and training
After his elementary school, his mother sent him to the Russian School of Orthodox Christianity in Tbilisi to study the Christian religion, relying on him to be a cleric, but he did not complete his studies because the school expelled him to be absent from the date of the exam.
Learning at school compensated by reading books, so he was an avid reader, and in his readings he chose something other than that of his mother, so he focused on prohibited novels and revolutionary books, including Marxism.
Jobs and Responsibilities He
was not known for administrative jobs or government jobs, due to his political interests and aspirations, but he worked at the beginning of his life as a clerk at the Meteorological Center in Tbilisi.
The intellectual approach
Stalin studied Marx's theories of communism, whose tendencies to the revolution and rebellion agreed to the system of society.
Despite his disagreement with Trotsky - who is considered one of the greatest theorists of socialism - Stalin was one of the people who enriched communist thought and Leninist Marxist discourse, through his books and applications in the rule of the Soviet Union.
Political experience
Early in his political activity, his preoccupation with politics was the reason for his expulsion from the theological school, so he joined the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party when he was about twenty years old.
When the party began witnessing intellectual transformations that led to the birth of what was later known as the Bolshevik Party, Stalin was one of the prominent activists in it, and he instigated the workers wherever he came, and he was subjected to arrest and exile several times before the Bolshevik revolution.
At the end of 1905 he was elected to represent the Bolsheviks at the Bolshevik Congress in the Caucasus, and he first met Lenin, and in 1907 he traveled with Lenin to attend the Fifth Congress of the Social Democratic Workers Party in London, then he became a member of the Bolshevik Party Central Committee in 1912.
He played a decisive role in the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, fought in several areas of the country, and led the Bolshevik teams in the attack on the seat of government, so the headquarters were stormed and the cabinet was arrested, and the Bolsheviks seized power.
After the Bolsheviks seized power, he appointed a supreme commissioner for nationalities, then became general secretary of the Communist Party in 1922, and after Lenin's death in 1924 a tripartite government consisted of Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev, but he overcame his partners in government and became the sole leader in 1928.
During his reign, the Soviet Union defined a new type of rule based on partisan ideology and individual rule, and it liquidated its opponents by killing, homelessness and imprisonment, and the repression and liquidation included all those around whom suspicions existed, leaving millions of victims counted.
At the same time, he worked to transfer the Soviet Union to an economically and militarily advanced country, present internationally, and during that time, it possessed the nuclear bomb and became the leader of the Eastern Bloc.
He played an active role in the Second World War, and Germany's attack on the Soviet Union - despite the non-aggression treaty signed between them - was behind his active role in this war, in which the Germans' spears were broken in the Battle of Stalin Grad.
In 1943 he participated in the Tehran conference alongside Roosevelt and Churchill, and it was agreed during the conference that the Soviet Union open a third front against Nazism, in exchange for agreeing to the Soviet demands in the Baltic, Romania and Poland.
A few months before the end of World War II in 1945, he participated in the Yalta conference with Roosevelt and Churchill as well, and gained recognition of the sphere of influence of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, making the Soviet Union one of the central players in international politics.
The books are
composed of a number of books, among them: dialectical materialism and historical materialism, the foundations of Leninism, Marxism, and the national cause.
Death
Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953.