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Biographical data oSource
Became General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in
1922
Stalin's mother Keke was born a serf.
His father Beso was a cobbler who owned his own shop
He was their third child; their two previous sons died in
infancy
The second and third toes of his left foot were webbed.
Stalin's family moved homes frequently; at least nine times in
Stalin's first ten years of lif
At the age of 7, Stalin fell ill with smallpox and his face was
badly scarred by the disease
Born 12/18/1878. Although there is an inconsistency among
published sources about Stalin'syear and date of birth, Iosif
Dzhugashvili is found in the records of the Uspensky Church in
Gori,Georgia as born on December 18 (Old Style: December 6) 1878.
This birth date is maintained inhis School Leaving Certificate, his
extensive tsarist Russia police file, a police arrest record from18
April 1902 which gave his age as 23 years, and all other surviving
pre-revolution documents.Stalin himself listed December 18, 1878 in
a curriculum vitae as late as 1921, in his ownhandwriting. However,
after his coming to power in 1922, the date was changed to December
21,1879 (December 9, Old Style), and that was the day his birthday
was celebrated in the Soviet
Union. Russian playwright Edvard Radzinsky argues in his
bookStalin that he changed the yearto 1879 to have a nation-wide
birthday celebration of his 50th birthday. He could not do it
in1928 because his rule was not absolute enough. [1]
Stalin replaced the New Economic Policy (NEP) of the 1920s with
Five-Year Plans in1928
He adopted the name Stalin, which is derived from the Russian
stal (Russian: ) for "steel",in 1913
At around the time he started school, Stalin was struck by a
horse-drawn carriage. Theaccident permanently damaged his left arm;
this injury would later exempt him frommilitary service in World
War I.
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At the age of 10, Stalin began his education at the Gori Church
School
He became a very good choir singer, and was often hired to sing
at weddings
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At around the time he started school, Stalin was struck by a
horse-drawn carriage. Theaccident permanently damaged his left arm;
this injury would later exempt him frommilitary service in World
War I.
In 1913, Stalin published Marxism and the National Question
Later in 1913, Stalin was sent into penal exile for a third
time. This time he did notescape so quickly, and lived for the next
four years in a small hamlet on the YeniseiRiver. While there he
began a 2-year affair with Lidia Pereprygina, then aged 13,
withwhom he fathered two children
Simon Sebag Montefiore. Stalin: The Court
