December 21, 1879. He was born in Gori, a village in

Transcaucasian Georgia, a province of the Russian Empire within

the Caucasus mountains. Stalin was the only of four children to

survive infancy. Stalin's father was named Visarion Dzhugashvili,

who was an unsuccessful cobbler. Stalin's father drank heavily

and sometimes beat his son. Stalin's mother, Yekaterina

Dzhugashvili, worked as a house servant for various upper-class

Georgian families. Joseph Stalin was sickly as a child, he was

scarred by smallpox, and septicemia crippled his left arm.

Nevertheless, he was in excellent shape as a teenager. Stalin was

enrolled at a local Orthodox prochial school in Gori in 1888 at the

age of nine. When he was 14, his father died from wounds he

In 1894, Stalin won a free scholarship to the Orthodox

Russian theological seminary at Tiflis to be educated for

priesthood. In his fourth year he joined Mesame Dasi, a secret

group supporting Georgian nationalism. In 1899 Stalin was

expelled from the seminary, when he was about to graduate. Stalin

first tried tutoring and then clerical work at the Tiflis Observatory,

forced to retreat in 1945. In 1943 and 1945 Stalin issued

for three years. Stalin escaped in 1904 and reappeared in Tiflis.

From 1936 through 1938 Stalin brought on his Great Terror.

the Soviet line. Yugoslavia was expelled from alliance, after

1917, Stalin immediately left Siberia, were he was still in exile, for

nonaggression against Soviet territory. Despite warnings, Stalin

allowed to attack the other parts of Poland and promise

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