IOSEPH STALIN

WHO WAS IOSPEH STALIN?

• Ioseph Djugashvili (1897)
• Born in Georgia
• Educated as a priest
• Young and convinced socialist
• Started from the bottom.

STALIN AND LENIN

• Stalin made his way in the Bolshevik Party
• He gained Lenin's trust
• However, he was not a major player within the party.
• Outstanding administrator, lacked of political skills.
• In 1923, Lenin said that Stalin was "too rude"

HOW DID STALIN BECOME THE USSRs LEADER

• 1922 appointed as Party's General Secretary
• Bolshevik's leadership member
• Used Lenin's death in his favor
• Outweighed Trotsky's power and image.

STALIN'S MOMENT

• While Lenin was sick, Stalin created a new leadership
• He persecuted, one by one, his detractors
• He declared himself Lenin's successor.
• Trotsky was put aside during Lenin's funeral.
• People thought that Trotsky had betrayed Lenin.