Background: Was born on December 21, 1879. He was born in Gori Georgia, a county by Russia. He was his mothers 4 child in less than 4 years. The first 3 died and his mother was very protective of him. The family was a poor, but religious family. When he was 7 he got smallpox. Despite his poverty and sickness he did well in school and he was taken to a seminary school because his mom wanted him to become a priest. He dropped out of various reasons, he became a tutor and was shortly arrested and was deported to Siberia. During this time he adopted the name Stalin which is Russian for “Steel”. Then became close the Vladmir Lenin and became a writer. Then he turned against Vladimir and He got power over Russia. But he was very cautious over his power. Russia was very hard to control because it was so big.
How He Rose to Power.: He basicly rose to power because he got really close to Vladimir Lenin and was a newspaper write. He became close to Vladimir and turned against him and gained control of Russia and became a dictator.
How He Lost His Power:
Joseph Stalin never really lost his power.
He held his power until his death.
Joseph Stalin died by Cerebral Hemorrhage on March, 5 1953.- (Stroke)
After he died Nikita Khrushchev Succeeded to control power of the Soviet Union.
He was remembered as the man who saved his country from Nazi domination. - and as the mass murderer of the century. He saw 8 to 10 million deaths just from his own people.
He died when he was 75 years old.
what stalin did in power
http://www.laughtergenealogy.com/bin/histprof/misc/stalin.html
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· Stalin ruled by terror
· Millions of people were sent to labor camps or were executed
· he had encouraged kids to inform on their parents
· a mass purge was started that killed thousands of people it was started to dispose of anyone who threatened his power
· anti-Semitism was now being practiced throughout the country
· the abductions by the secret police continued in secret and they would take anyone, nobody was safe
· he eventually had the leader of the secret police killed because he could not be trusted
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· he put in place the 5 year plan
· he started out by turning control of the farms to the government
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