Joseph Stalin's journey from Georgia to St. Petersburg

Joseph Stalin's journey from Georgia to St. Petersburg

Georgia, Part 3

Stalin was born in Gori, now a city in present-day Georgia, and spent his childhood there before traveling to Tbilisi to attend school on a scholarship. He was, however, expelled from the Georgian Orthodox Tiflis Spiritual Seminary after poor performance on his exams, and it is thought that during this time he first joined the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, a Marxist group. His early political career was spent between Tbilisi, Baku, St. Petersburg, and several exiles in Siberia (where he often escaped) as he rose through the ranks of the party. Finally, returning from his final exile in a small northern fishing village near the Arctic Circle in 1917, he took part in the October Revolution that culminated in the creation and eventually his leadership of the USSR.

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1905-1917

Twelve years

Joseph Stalin, Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, Vladimir Lenin, USSR, Bolsheviks