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Joseph Stalin

Born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in December of 1879, and later known as Joseph Stalin, a provincial country boy with a distinct problem with authority would later emerge as one of the Soviet Union’s most powerful and most feared leaders. Georgian by birth, Stalin did not speak Russian until introduced to the language in his early school years. As a teenager, he attended a theological seminary school and avidly studied the teachings of Karl Marx. Shortly thereafter he was expelled from the school for participating in revolutionary activities. He quickly joined the ranks of the Bolshevik Party and spent much of the...