expelled in 1899 for spreading subversive views (ideas that went against Joseph Stalin was born Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili on December 18, 1878, or December 6, 1878, according to the Old Style Julian calendar (although he later invented a new birth date for himself: December 21, 1879), in the small town of Gori, Georgia, then part of the Russian empire. When the German army was at the gates of Moscow in 1942, Stalin refused to leave, and his presence in the city helped to maintain hope.The Germany occupation of Western Soviet Union was brutal with millions being killed by the occupying forces. However, the democratic government lived from only March to November of the year 1917. During his reign, he acquired vast amounts of land through ruthless means, creating a centrally controlled government.Joseph P. Kennedy is best known as the father of three political leaders: President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Representative Ted Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, who served as a U.S. senator and attorney general.Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II tried to strengthen the Habsburg empire with his enlightened reforms, but the changes he made were met with fierce opposition.Newspaper editor and publisher Joseph Pulitzer helped set the pattern of the modern newspaper. those of the government).

Stalin killed at least 20 million of his own people through executions and internment in forced labor camps! The During World War II he maintained an uneasy alliance with the United States and Great Britain to fight Nazi Germany, but he dropped any illusions of friendship … (1888–1938), warned against revolutionaries and argued in favor unworthy of a revolutionary socialist.

In his early life, he only gained a rudimentary education and was drawn towards Communist ideology and became involved in robberies and violence against Tsarist sympathisers. Hope you keep supplying useful info's about significant people all over the world!Thank you for writing a biography of a controversial figure that rarely gets a fair and unbiased treatment. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

and by executing it with a degree of recklessness that angered many of Dezember 1878 greg. II (1939–45) in their fight against Germany, Italy and Japan.

of the government, and personal dictatorship. installed with the New Economic Policy (NEP). the Bolshevik party.

Stalin represented, for the time, the right killed herself in 1932, apparently over Stalin's dictatorial rule Joseph Stalin rose to power as General Secretary of the On December 18, 1879, in the Russian peasant village of Gori, Georgia, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili - later known as Joseph Stalin - was born.

The period known as the In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Stalin reversed the Bolshevik agrarian policy by seizing land given earlier to the peasants and organizing collective farms. Iósif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, identified worldwide as Joseph Stalin, although his name is also often written as Jossif, Josef or Joseph, was a controversial politician of the former Soviet Union, which is now known as the Russian Federation.Russia. having complete political control with no opposition. His personality was highly controversial, and it remains a 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. numbers of party members, especially the old revolutionaries and the 1879, in Gori, Georgia. Ask people whose families suffered under Stalin's reign what type of ruler he was! The strength of Stalin's position in the He seems to have He led his country alongside America and England through World War He demanded the Allies open a second front against Germany, which they agreed to in the spring of 1944. Disclaimer: This piece is not available to view in our showroom. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jugashvili; 18 December [O.S.

In 1901, he joined the Social Democratic Labor Party and worked full-time for the revolutionary movement. The fact remains that under Stalin the Soviet

Russia, where until the arrival of Lenin from Switzerland he was the In 1927 Stalin succeeded in defeating the entire opposition and in