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Birth of Stalin
This year the birth of Iosif Stalin took place, specifically the December 18 in Gori, Georgia. -
Early years
Before the father of Stalin left his hometown, Stalin began his studies at the parish school of Gori, at 8 years. stalin's father died shortly afterwards -
Influences
Stalin's relationship with the revolutionary movement began at a seminar in which he had entered during these school years, Stalin joined to the Social Democratic organization in Georgia. Where he was taught by Professor Noe Jordania -
Arrests
He worked for ten years with clandestine political movements in the Caucasus, suffering repeated arrests and exile to Siberia between 1902 and 1917. -
Lenin's doctrine
Stalin joined Lenin's doctrine a strong centralist party of professional revolutionaries. In the post-Stalin period of 1905 revolution he led the "fighting squads" in bank robberies to raise funds for the Bolshevik party -
Leading Russia
In 1927 he began his project of industrial transformation of the Soviet Union -
Transformation of the Soviet Union
In 1930 he managed the production of new products in the Soviet Union, as were the watches, motorcycles and cameras. Also chemical products and iron and steel factories were major advances -
Agriculture in Russia
In 1934 he promoted the collectivization of agriculture -
The great purge
Between 1936-1938 he established the Great Purge, Stalin ruled with terror and anyone who tried to oppose him was eliminated -
Pact with Hitler
on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. -
Hitler breaks the pact
During the early morning of 22 June 1941, Adolf Hitler broke the pact by implementing Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union that began the war on the Eastern Front. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe, and it is regarded as the single largest and bloodiest battle in the history of warfare. -
Soviets stop the Germans
On 5 December, the Soviets launched a counteroffensive, pushing German troops back 40–50 miles from Moscow -
Soviet push to Germany
The Soviets repulsed the important German strategic southern campaign and, although there were 2.5 million Soviet casualties in that effort, it permitted the Soviets to take the offensive for most of the rest of the war on the Eastern Front -
Final victory
Fending off the German invasion and pressing to victory in the East required a tremendous sacrifice by the Soviet Union. Soviet military casualties totaled approximately 35 million, Thereafter, Stalin was at times referred to as one of the most influential men in human history. -
Last years
Since 1950 the health of Stalin , who was already 70 years old , began to worsen . His memory failed, easily exhausted and his general condition worsened . Vladimir Vinogradov , his personal physician, diagnosed with acute hypertension. -
Death
n the early morning hours of 1 March 1953, after an all-night dinner and a movie, Stalin arrived at his Kuntsevo residence 15 km west of Moscow centre, with interior minister Lavrentiy Beria and future premiers Georgy Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin, and Nikita Khrushchev, where he retired to his bedroom to sleep. At dawn, Stalin did not emerge from his room. He died of a stroke.
