Joseph Stalin or Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born December 21, 1879. He was born in Gori, a village in Transcaucasian Georgia, a province of the Russian Empire within the Caucasus mountains. Stalin was the only of four children to survive infancy. Stalin’s father was named Visarion Dzhugashvili, who was an unsuccessful cobbler. Stalin’s father drank heavily and sometimes beat his son. Stalin’s mother, Yekaterina Dzhugashvili, worked as a house servant for various upper-class Georgian …showed first 75 words of 1781 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1781 total…of people under his rule, but his superior leadership during World War two made him Time Magazine’s Man of the Year in 1942. Joseph Stalin you could say was the last leader in Russia to have the ability to effectively spread Communism. After Khrushchev was denounced Gorbachev rehabilitated Stalin’s victims and officially condemned Stalinism. He was admired by some Russians, but most would agree that Stalin was one of the cruelest dictators in history.+