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Childhood titles
September 1888,he enrolled in the Gori Church School,Stalin excelled academically.In 1894, Stalin enrolled in the Tiflis Orthodox Spiritual Seminary.He joined the 600 trainee priest,and achieved high qualifications.As he grew up he dropped out of school. -
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Academic life continue
He devoted himself to the socio political theory of Marx,he left the seminary in 1899.In October,he began work as meteorologist at the Tiflis observatory.In november he was chosen to be member of the Tbilisi Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP), a Marxist party. -
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Stalin's family
Stalin married Kato Svanidze in July 1906. In March 1907 she gave birth to a son, Yakov. By that year, Stalin had established himself as "the leading Georgian Bolshevik".In November 1907, his wife died of typhus, leaving their son with his family in Tiflis.But he later had more romantic adventures and soon's. -
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His encarcelamient
He led Bolsheviks in prison, organized dispute groups and ordered the murder of alleged informants. In the end he was sentenced 2 years of exile, Vologda province, where he arrived in February 1909. In June 1911 , Stalin was granted permission to move to Vologda, where he prevailed 2 months, having an interaction with Pelageya Onufrieva. He fled to St. Petersburg, where he has been arrested in September 1911 and sentenced to 3 years of exile in Vologda. -
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Stalin incorporation
1912, while Stalin was in exile, the first Bolshevik Central Committee was elected at the Prague Conference. Shortly after the conference, Lenin and Grigory Zinoviev decided to bring Stalin into the committee,he agreed, remaining a member of the Central Committee for the rest of his life. Lenin believed that Stalin, would help ensure support for the Bolsheviks from the empire's ethnic minorities.Later he again escaped to Saint Petersburg,but he was arrested again. -
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3rd soon
In March 1914, worried about a possible escape attempt, the authorities moved Stalin to the village of Kureika on the edge of the Arctic Circle. In the village, Stalin had a relationship with Lidia Pereprygina, who was fourteen at the time but well within the legal age of consent in Tsarist Russia. In about December 1914, Pereprygina gave birth to Stalin's son, although the The baby died soon. She gave birth to another of her sons, Alexander, around April 1917. -
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His power consolidationation
On October 26, 1917, Lenin declared himself president of a new government, the Council of People's Commissars ("Sovnarkom"). Stalin backed Lenin's decision not to form a coalition with the Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionary Party, although they formed a coalition government with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries. Stalin became part of an informal quartet running the government, along with Lenin, Trotsky and Sverdlov. -
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Stalin ideology
Stalin claimed to have embraced Marxism at the age of fifteen, and it served as his philosophical guide throughout his adult life; according to Kotkin, Stalin had "zealous Marxist convictions", while Montefiore suggested that Marxism had "quasi-religious" value for Stalin. Although he never became a Georgian nationalist, during the early years of his life elements of Georgian nationalist thought blended with Marxism in his outlook. -
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personality
complex mind, great self-control, and excellent memory.Hard-working, and had desire to learn; when in power, he scrutinized many details of Soviet life, from movie scripts to architectural plans and military equipment. According to Volkogonov, "Stalin's private life and work life were one and the same"; he did not take days off from political activities. Stalin could play different roles for different audiences, and was adept at deception, often misleading others about his true motives and goals -
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Relations
Friendship was important to Stalin, and he used it to gain and maintain power. Kotkin observed that Stalin "generally gravitated toward people like himself: upstart intellectuals from humble beginnings." Stalin was gregarious and enjoyed joking. According to Montefiore, friendships Stalin's "wandered between love, admiration, and poisonous jealousy." While leading the Soviet Union, he kept in touch with many of his old friends in Georgia, sending them letters and gifts of money.