Joseph Stalin(Dec 18, 1878 – March 5, 1953)

Elviira SamsonovaLy Puusaar11.b class

The great leaderGeorgianGeneral Secretary

of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Comitee

Dictator of the Soviet Union

Caused deaths of 20 million people

Command economy launcher

Childhood and Education Born in Gori, third child in the

familyFather became alcoholicMoved homes very many timesAt the age of ten, Stalin began his

education at the Gori Church School.

Georgian Orthodox Seminary of TiflisLeft school because of the feewritings of Vladimir Lenin

Rise to power, 1917-1927In May 1918, Lenin

dispatched Stalin to the city of Tsaritsyn.

People's Commissar(1917-1923)

Revolutionary Military Council (1920-1923)

Member of CECCS(1917) 1922-became General

Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party

World War II 1939-1945War would be the best

opportunitySeptember 17, 1939

the Red Army invaded eastern Poland and occupied the territory assigned to it by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

June 1941 – beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

Great wartime leader

Deportations

Series of deportations on a huge scale

Between 1941 and 1949 nearly 3.3 million were deported to Siberia

Appalling conditions, often by cattle truck

Many of the deportees died of hunger or other conditions.

Survivers were forced to work without pay in the labour camps

Family and marriagesI wife- Ekaterina Svanidze

died in 1907married in July 28, 1906 first baby, Yakov, was born

in March 31, 1907II wife- Nadezhda Alliluyeva

died in 1932they had a son and a

daughterIII secretly married wife

Rosa KaganovichIV common-law wife Lida in

1918They had a son

Religious beliefscomplicated and

sometimes contradictory was supposed to

become a priestTheological Seminary at

Tbilisi read The Origin of

Species at the age of thirteen

Stalin began making his peace with God

During the Second World War Stalin reopened the Churches

Stalinism• Political regime named after Joseph Stalin.• Propaganda• Absolute dictator• Secret police• Style of government

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