Early Life~

-Birth name: Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili

-"Birthday": December 18, 1878, or December 6, 1878(it is unknown)

-What he says his birthday is: December 21, 1879

-Birthplace: Gori, Georgia

-Grew up poor

-Abused by his father who was an alcoholic

-Went to a Georgian Orthodox Church where he began to read into the teachings of Karl Marx

Joseph stalin as a Child in about 1879

Rise to Power

-Stalin left school and became a "underground" political agitator and adopted the name Koba after a fictional character.

-In 1912, Stalin was appointed to serve the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party

-Shortly after the Bolsheviks got power in the Russia that became the USSR

-Lenin died in 1924 and Stalin outmaneuvered his competitors and became leader of the Communist Party