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His first contact to Marxism
While he was studying at the Tiflis Theological Seminary, he joined a secret organization called Messame Dassy. Some members were supporters of Georgian independence from Russia and others were socialist revolutionaries. Through this people that he met in this organization, Stalin had his first came into contact with the ideas of Karl Marx. In May, 1899, Stalin was expelled from the Tiflis Theological Seminary -
Becoming a knowing name
Under the leadership of J. V. Stalin, a central leading group is formed within the Tiflis organization of the RSDLP, organized the printing of manifestoes/ propagandas that were distribuited among the workers, formed underground Social-Democratic circles, and leaded the strikes and political struggle of the Tiflis proletariat. -
The Social Democratic Labor Party
At that time, most of the leaders of the party were living in exile, but Stalin stayed in Russia where he helped to organize industrial resistance to Tsarism
After been arrested and gone to prison for 18 months, he was deported to Siberia -
The scape
Stalin escaped from Siberia and within a few months he was back organizing demonstrations and strikes in Tiflis. He returned to Russia and over the next eight years he was arrested four times but each time he managed to escape. -
From prison to revolution
in the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, the conference seted up a practical center known as the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee to direct revolutionary activities in Russia which J. V. Stalin was in charge of this center.
He wrote many Circular Letters of the Central Committee of the RSDLP to the Party organizations announcing the definite formation of the Central Committee. -
April Thesis
Instead of attacking the Bolsheviks, Stalin argued that revolutionaries should be telling the people of Russia that they should take over the control of the country. In his speech, Lenin urged the peasants to take the land from the rich landlords and the industrial workers to seize the factories.
Also he accused some Bolsheviks who were still supporting the Provisional Government of betraying socialism and suggested that they should leave the party. -
Difficulties to create the union of Socialist States
"complete freedom for the Finnish people, and for other peoples of Russia, to arrange their own life!". This was the plan that Stalin wanted to develop, called "a voluntary and honest alliance" between Russia and all the national groups that lived within its borders.Then he had difficulties to control the people becuase new independent states were setting up without his agreement. When he saw that they weren't joining up, Stalin was forced to revise his policy and stated that self-determination. -
The new general
Stalin was made the new general secretary of the Communist Party, a post not considered particularly significant at the time but which gave him control over appointments and thus allowed him to build up a base of support -
The new dictator of the Soviet Union
After Lenin's death, Stalin promoted himself as his political heir and gradually outmanoeuvred his rivals, then with all the power that he gain, Stalin was effectively the dictator of the Soviet Union. Moreover, the population suffered immensely during the Great Terror of the 1930s, during which Stalin purged the party of 'enemies of the people', resulting in the execution of thousands and the exile of millions to the gulag system of slave labour camps. -
Five Years Plan
Stalin decided to use his control over the country to modernize the economy in that way the first Five Year Plan that was introduced in 1928,It was concentrated on the development of iron and steel, machine-tools, electric power and transport. Also he set the workers high targets and justified that all the demands that he created,claiming that if rapid industrialization did not take place, the Soviet Union wouldn't be able to defend itself against an invasion from capitalist countries in the wes -
Before 1941
During almost 20 years, Stalins made kill all those writers who were against his idealism or those who questioned him and made people be against him. (It was a censorship for all the columnist) -
The Red Army
The Red Army started growing, which was the union of all the purges, who were against Stalin. Meanwhile Stalin was ill prepared for Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941. His political future, and that of the Soviet Union, hung in the balance, but Stalin recovered to lead his country to victory. The human cost was enormous, but was not a consideration for him -
An end for the Stalin's' dictatorship
After World War Two, the Soviet Union entered the nuclear age and ruled over an empire which included most of eastern Europe. Increasingly paranoid,
Stalin died of a stroke on 5 March 1953
