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JOSEPH STALIN
A Life From Beginning to End
Copyright 2016 by Hourly History Limited
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Table of Contents
Introduction
W hen most Americans think of the Man of Steel, images of the DC Comics iconic Superman no doubt come to mind, the safe and salient American hero who appeared in the pulp fiction pages of American comic books beginning in 1938. However, there was another Man of Steel that had emerged over a decade prior to this superheros debut - and this man of steel was forged under completely different circumstances.
Instead of crash landing on Earth from planet Krypton, Stalins man of steel was forged in the physical fires of the gulag and the emotional fires of childhood abandonment. He was a man that was often mistreated in life, and as a consequence, he hardened. Every aspect of his personality became as hard as iron, and it was in recognition and dedication to this feat that the man who was born Iosif Dzhugashvili announced to the world that he would be forevermore known as Stalin, the Man of Steel.
The man who then took on this mantle of emotional disconnection and dehumanization would spend the rest of his life working to inflict his cold vision on the rest of the world. However, despite his wish to be as solid as steel, Stalin would become an increasingly erratic figure. He often contradicted himself; while he had an inborn desire to involve others in the political process, at the same time he was an iron-fisted despot in constant fear of someone else moving against his will.
In his heart he was a true believer in Marxist ideology and wished to see the communist system, with its equal delegation of powers, take off. Yet his inflexibility and refusal to relinquish his dictatorial powers meant his desire for a Marxist paradise would never get off the runway.
Stalin, a lifelong revolutionary, wished to encourage his love of activism in the common people of the Soviet Union, but the instant the very people he encouraged became too politically active he had them thrown in prison. Stalin presents himself as a kind of Russian matryoshka dollthe kind that has layer upon layer of different faces and dress underneath and its the complex duplicity of Stalins multiple layers has left us digging deeper and deeper into his strange personality. Even doing so has left researchers feeling as if they have just barely scratched the surface.
Chapter One
A Change of Weather
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Karl Marx
S talin was born on December 18th, 1878, in a frontier town on the edge of what then comprised the Russian Empire of Tsar Alexander II. The land of his birth was a recent acquisition in what is known today as Georgia. Despite a common Russian animus at the time for anything Georgian, when Stalin would eventually come to power, he fully embraced his Georgian heritage.
However, for the young man born with the Georgian name of Iosif Dzhugashvili a name that most Russians had trouble even pronouncing - the likelihood that the child of this backwater region would rise up to any sort of prominence at all would have seemed incredibly unlikely. He was the son of a cobbler and a housemaid who barely made enough money to survive.
When the familys financial situation later moved from bad to worse, his father would turn increasingly to alcohol and the abuse of his familyespecially the young Iosifin order to release the feelings of desperation and rage that he felt. Iosifs mother became increasingly concerned for her son, and in the midst of their struggle came to the conclusion that the only way for him to escape the turmoil was to send him off to seminary school. This is the impetus that brought Stalin to the town of Tiflisto one of Georgias local Greek Orthodox monasteriesto become a priest.
Iosifs new peaceful life as a priest got off to a rough start. In 1899 he was expelled from the school after getting into a fight with a local chief of police. Joseph Stalin himself would later claim that he was expelled for disseminating Marxist propaganda. To date, however, it remains unclear whether Stalins admission was propaganda in itself because there is no other indication besides Stalins own remarks that Marxism had anything to do with his dismissal.
This may have been one of many of Stalins attempts at revisionist history when it came to his own personal narrative. Regardless of the actual cause, Stalins dismissal would be a turning point for the man who would one day become Joseph Stalin, the Man of Steel. Not wishing to return to his parents broken home, despite his dismissal Joseph decided to stay in Tiflis. It was here at around 21 years of age that he found work at the Tiflis Meteorological Observatory.
This was not due to any known interest in meteorology but rather an act of necessity, and apparently, the only job that Stalin could find. At the dawn of the 20th century the entire Russian Empire was economically depressed, but none more so than frontier regions like Stalins Georgia. Most of the young men of Tiflis were unemployed and reduced to panhandling; any number of these destitute Georgians would have jumped at the chance of steady work at the observatory.
Stalin, already knowing the value of being connected, had help landing this job. A good friend of his from his hometown already held a position at the facility, and with just a few good words managed to get Stalin not only a job but a place to stay. He was given a small room to sleep in when he wasnt working, right underneath the observatory.
It was the first solid room and board Stalin had since his expulsion from seminary school. For all of this, it was only required of Stalin to man the post for 3 days a week, making notes of the current temperature and barometer readings. With his basic survival ensured, Stalin now found himself with enough extra time on his hands to delve into the political intrigue of his day.
For Georgia, this meant a heady dose of nationalist desire to break away from Russia and a populist spirit of self-determination. It was here that Stalin became involved with some of the local workers unions and began to organize strikes on their behalf; with his own employment secure, he sought to influence the employment of others. These efforts would come to a head when he worked to mobilize workers at a local railroad to strike against their employer.
With local industrialists growing increasingly enraged by his disruptive activities, the local police stormed into the Tiflis Observatory and took Stalin into custody. Although organizing peaceful demonstrations was not technically against the law, the police sought to send a clear message to Stalin. Whatever they told him during his detention, however, fell on deaf ears, and Stalin was only emboldened to work even harder to spark a revolution.
With several successful strikes and protests under his belt, Stalin made quite a name for himself as a political activist. As his successes in the field increased he would soon have to give up his day job completely in favor of being a full-time revolutionary agent. After a series of attention-getting demonstrations, Stalin and his cohorts began planning a massive workers march on Tiflis.
The Tsars secret police got word of this, however, and decided to round up the movements leaders to prevent the protest from breaking out. Already knowing where Stalin worked, several police immediately surrounded the observatory, hoping to catch him upon his return. It would prove a bit too obvious, however, and to have these so-called secret police standing right out in the open would be the best early warning system that Stalin, the one-time weatherman, could have ever had.
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