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Josef Stalin

  • Stalin was born

    Stalin was born as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia.
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    Josef Stalin Life Span

    The life of Russian Communist leader Josef Stalin
  • Stalin got Smallpox and left a permant scar on his face.

  • At age 10 Stalin went to a Georgian church and forced to speek Russian

  • At age 12 permanetly damaged left arm

    In an accident with two horse draw carrgies
  • Famine Caused many deaths in the USSR

    The scarcity caused between 375,000- 400,000 deaths
  • 1: At Sixteen got Scholarship toeorgian Orthodox seminary. He rebelled

    He rebelled against the inmerialist and religous order I find that this was one of the biggest events in his life. It was a early stage of his life and it seemed later on in his life he was trying to get revenge by making it so only "his" favored reilgions could be used.
  • Joined Vladimir Lenin's Revolutionary thinking. Became outlaw

  • Married first wife Ekaterina Svanidze.

    Had fisrt child Yakov
  • First wife died of typhus in Baku

  • Became People's Commissar for Nationalities' Affairs.

  • Russia's leader for Southern front of Polish war

  • 2: Appointed General Secretary

    This let Stalin's collegues come into power This is a major point in Stalin's rise to power since he could bring his friends into power and then more and more. With the more friends his ideas could grow and prosper.
  • Lenin had stroke ,and he then Semiretired

    He began to dislike Stalin
  • 3: Stalin made "Five-Year Plan"

    "Five-Year Plan" was made to help the Industrialization process in the Soviet Union This a major hight is Stalin's rule this made him great with industrialization. This made people change their view of Stalin
  • In the 30's almost had absolute power

  • 4: Stalin Killed many Russian Orthdox Church People

    hurches had been leveled, and tens of thousands of priests, monks and nuns were persecuted and killed.
    But During WWII these churches began to revive This seemed to be revenge for what happened when he was younger. This was also part of his big cleanout of of religons he did.
  • 1938 sent NKVD to do purging in Mongolia

  • Signed pact with Nazi-Germany

    This was a non-aggresion pact between the two contries.
  • 5: Started deporting different ethnic groups

    An estimated 3.3 million people were deported from Soviet Union to Siberia or other Central Asian Republics This was one of the last biggest things he did. With all of the "bad" Stalin deported to other places there were also millions in deaths. This showed his un-good side of being the leader he was.
  • Sign pact with Japan

    This assiagned another country to the Axis powers
  • Hitler broke pack with Stalin

    Hiter had his men attack Stain's
  • Suffered a servere heart attack

  • Stalin nominated for Nobel Paece Prize

    He was nomiated by Wladislav Rieger
  • Hand rewrote some parts of book

    The book was "Falsifiers of History"
  • The Deporting stopped or greatly decreased

  • Many popular religons were outlawed

    They were the Roman Catholic Church,Baptists, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism, etc. Also thousands of monks were persecuted, and hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, sacred monuments, monasteries and other religious buildings were destoryed
  • Josef Stalin died of a hemorrage

    The hemorrage was bielieved to be an assasination by Lavrentiy Beria bby using a tastless rat poison ,warfarin