JOSEPH STALIN

TYPE OF GOVERNMENT

• Communist

POLITICAL TITLE

• General Secretary

SUPPORTERS/POLITICAL PARTY

• Communist party
• Party officials

ACTIONS/TECHNIQUES USED TO KEEP CONTROL

• Purges, prison camps, secret police, state run press, forced labor camps, executions

HOW HE ROSE TO POWER

• He was supported of the thousands of officials he appointed

PERSONAL INFORMATION

BIRTHDATE/DEATH

• Born: December 18, 1878, Gori, Georgia Died: March 5, 1953, Kuntsevo Dacha, Moscow, Russia

EDUCATION

• Tbilisi Spiritual Seminary 1894–1899 Gori Church School 1889–1894

FAMILY INFORMATION

• Vasily Stalin Son Svetlana Alliluyeva Daughter Nadezhda Alliluyeva Spouse Yakov Dzhugashvili Son Kato Svanidze Former spouse Artem Sergeev Son Besarion Jughashvili Father Keke Geladze Mother Yevgeny Dzhugashvili Grandson Alexander Burdonsky Grandson Galina Dzhugashvili Granddaughter Olga Peters Granddaughter Joseph Alliluyev Grandson Yekaterina Zhdanova Granddaughter Georgy Jughashvili Brother Lyudmila Dzhugashvili Granddaughter Nadezhda Stalina Granddaughter Lina Dzhugashvili Granddaughter Mikhail Jughashvili Brother Vano Djughashvili Grandparent Svetlana Stalina Granddaughter Tatyana Dzhugashvili Granddaughter Glakh Geladze Grandfather Melania Geladze Grandmother

FAVORITE QUOTE

• "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas".

HOBBIES/INTRESTS

• -Stalin liked to study marxism which helped to expand his knowledge of communism; this helped him to take over. -Stalin also had interest in practical problems. He was interested in this because he needed to think practical and reasonable to have everything planned out. -Party organization was another one of Stalin's hobbies. He took interest in this because he was always in different comminist parties and making different groups to support this interest. -Joseph also liked to attend/ join other parties, that other people created. All of this helped to get his name known and how hands on he was as a leader.

OTHER INTERESTING FACTS

• 1. Stalin’s name means “man of steel”
• 2. His birthday is up for debate
• 3. Stalin left school
• 4. Stalin’s ape army is likely a myth
• 5. Stalin loved movies
• 6. And he loved John Wayne more
• 7. Stalin’s go-to wine was Georgian – and it’s making a comeback
• 8. His favourite musician was pianist Maria Yudina
• 9. He was a small man with big ideas
• 10. Stalin was responsible for the death of at least 20 million people

SOURCES

• "10 Things You Didn't Know about Joseph Stalin." HISTORY. 2014. Web. 24 Feb. 2016.