Joseph Stalin
“Man of Steel”
The young Stalin
 Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia
 He was born on December 21, 1879
 He was his mother's fourth child to be born in less
than four years.
 The first three died and as Joseph was prone to bad
health, his mother feared on several occasions that
he would also die.
About Stalin
Joseph experienced the poverty that
most peasants had to endure in Russia
at the end of the 19th century.
At the age of seven he contacted with
smallpox.It left a scar on his face and he
became known as “pocky”.
Joseph Stalin as a dictator
 WW2 leaders-Winston Churchill, Franklin
D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin. (top)
Stalin monument (right)
Stalin’s family life
 Stalin’s son Yakov finally shot himself because of Stalin’s
harshness toward him.
 Yakov ended up surviving. After this Stalin said, “He can’t even
shoot straight”.
 Yakov served in the Red Army during World War II and was
captured by the Germans.
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Stalin’s first wife.
Stalin
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children.
Speech given by stalin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkCXt
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Accomplishments
As the ruler of Russia, Stalin was the leader
of world communism for almost thirty years.
Stalin was also involved in the Russian
Revolution in 1917
He also led his country alongside America
and England through World War 2.
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 October, 1941, German troops were only fifteen miles outside Moscow. Orders were
given for a mass evacuation of the city. In two weeks, two million people left Moscow,
Stalin, and as Supreme Commander-in-Chief. "Joseph Stalin." Spartacus Educational Home Page. 31 Mar. 2009 <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSstalin.htm>.
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