Stalin

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Stalin

• By Jessie Cheung

History Presentation
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Basic Information

• Name Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
  (Known as Joseph Stalin means)
  
• Birth December 21, 1879
• Place Gori, Georgia
• Dead March 5, 1953 (74 years old)
• Place Moscow, Russia

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Childhood

• Father was a bootmaker and mother was a washer
• The forth Children, the first three died
• Bad health since born
• His mother was very protective towards him
• Beat by father ? hatred of authority
• Age of 9, father left the family without support

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School life I

• Started his education at age of eight in Gori
  Church School
• Spoke Georgian, but forced to speak Russian
• Favorite hero was Koba, a legendary mountain
  ranger ? became Stalins 1st alias
  revolutionary
• Age of 14, he graduated first in his class and
  awarded a scholarship to the Seminary of Tiflis
• Because of the lack of locally available
  university education, he attended to Seminary

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School life II

• he joined a secret organization called Messame
  Dassy (supporters of Georgian independence from
  Russia ) while studying at the seminary
• Stalin first came to contact with the idea of
  Karl Marx
• Age of 20, expelled from the seminary
• Work as a clerk at the Tiflis Observatory
• Began writing articles for socialist Georgian
  newspaper

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? Marriage ?

• In 1907, first wife, Ekaterina Svanidze died,
  only four years after their marriage
• Had a son called Yakov Dzhugashvili
• In 1932, second wife, Nadeshda Alliluyeva died by
  shooting herself after a quarrel with Stalin
• Had a son, Vasiliy, and a daughter, Svetlana

Secretly married to a third wife named Rosa
Kaganovich ?
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Political life start I

• 1901, Stalin joined the Social Democratic Party
• 1902, Stalin was arrested
• 1903, dispute between Vladimir Lenin and Julius
  Martov
• 1904 Stalin escaped from Siberia and identified
  himself with the Bolsheviks
• 1905, Stalin made a name as the organizer of
  daring bank robberies and raids on money
  transports, he was invited to meet Lenin in
  Finland
• Stalin met Lenin in congresses

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Political life start II

• 1910, Changed his name to Stalin
• Became a follower of Lenin
• Stalin remained in exile during WWI
• 1917, Russian monarchy was crumbed, Stalin
  returned
• 1917, Stalin was editor of Pravda
• Helped the Bolsheviks in the November Revolution
  in 1918
• Established a Communist government
• Communists fought a civil war against democratic
  forces

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Rise to Power I

• During the Russian Civil War, Stalin was a
  political commissar in the Red Army
• His first government position was as Peoples
  Commissar of Nationalities Affairs during
  19171923
• member of the Central Executive Committee of the
  Congress of Soviets (from 1917)
• Also was People's Commissar of the Workers and
  Peasants Inspection (19191922)
• member of the Revolutionary Military Council of
  the republic (192023)

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Rise to Power II

• On April 3, 1922, Stalin was the General
  Committee of the Central Communist Committee of
  the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
• 1922, he disagreed with Lenin over the issue of
  foreign trade ? Lenin began to fear
• Lenin died in 1924
• Acted like the leader of the Soviet Union
• Gained power, Stalin continued Lenin's New
  Economic Policy

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Against the opponents I

• Left-wing
• Joined forces with two left-wing members of the
  Politburo, Gregory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev
• ? keep Leon Trotsky away from power
• 1925, removed his emery Leon Trotsky
• Trotsky and Zinoviev were expelled from the party
  and Kamenev lost his seat on the Central
  Committee during the 15th Congress in 1927

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Against the opponents II

• Right-wing
• Gained popular appeal from his presentation 'man
  of the people' from the poorer classes
• concentrating in building "Socialism in One
  Country" ? optimistic
• ban on factionalism
• Got absolute power until the Great Purge ,
• 19371938

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Great Purge 1938

• The Great Purge is the name given to campaigns of
  political repression and persecution in the
  Soviet Union controlled by Stalin during 1937 to
  1938.
• It involved the purge of the Communist Party of
  the Soviet Union and the persecution of
  unaffiliated persons, both occurring within a
  period characterized by omnipresent police
  surveillance, widespread suspicion of
  "saboteurs", imprisonment, and killings.

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World War II

• Signed Non-aggressive Pact with German in Sept
  23, 1939
• Ended by June 22, 1941 when German invaded Soviet
  Union

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During WWII

• November, 1943, Stalin met Winston Churchill and
  Franklin D. Roosevelt in Iran
• February, 1945, Stalin, Winston Churchill and
  Franklin D. Roosevelt met again in Yalta
• Promised to enter the war against Japan

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After WWII

• Leaded Soviet to victory against the Nazis
• set up of communist regimes in Rumania, Bulgaria,
  Hungary, East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia
• In 1948, Stalin ordered an economic blockade of
  Berlin
• Soon recognized Mao's Peoples Republc of China
• In 1950, he encouraged Kim II Sung, the communist
  ruler of North Korea, to invade South Korea

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• A meeting between Stalin and Mao Zedong after
• the CCP's 1949 victory over the KMT in the
• Chinese Civil War

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Question 1

• Which child of Stalin was captured
• by Germany?
• A Yakov
• B Vasiliy
• C Svetlana
• D Nadeshda

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Question 2

• Who is not the enemy of Stalin after he became
  the leader of Soviet?
• A Leon Trotsky
• B Gregory Zinoviev
• C Lev Kamenev
• D Vladimir Lenin

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Question 3

• When did Great Purge take place?
• A1935 - 1936
• B1936 - 1937
• C1937 - 1938
• D1939 - 1940

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Question 4

• Why did Stalin order an economic blockade of
  Berlin
• retaliation
• True
• False

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Bibliography

• Wikipedia
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin
• Joseph Stalin
• http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSstalin.htm
  
• Book rages
• http//www.bookrags.com/Joseph_Stalin?gclidCKDw9c
  ax2osCFQlQWAod7lJocQ
• http//www.bookrags.com/biography/joseph-stalin/
• Youtube
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