Stalin

A young Joseph Stalin before the USSR

Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin (1879 — 1953), taken from a police file. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Stalin was not his name. Born in Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1878,  Ioseb Jughashvili was the son of a failing cobbler and a housemaid. His father Besarion was an alcoholic, and,...