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[[Image:Josephstalin.jpg|right|thumb|Joseph Stalin.]]
[[Image:Josephstalin.jpg|right|thumb|Joseph Stalin.]]
'''Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ''' (Russian ''Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Джугашви́ли'', better known as '''Joseph Stalin''' (December 6, 1878 - March 5, 1953) was the General Secretary of the [[Communist Party]] of the [[Soviet Union]] ([[CPSU]]) from 1922 until his death. The son of a poor Georgian cobbler, Stalin was a former seminary student who joined the Communist Party when Georgia was still under the rule of the Russian Tsar. He became one of [[Lenin|Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's]] closest allies when the Kerensky regime was overthrown by Lenin's faction. During the [[Russian Civil War]] Stalin, who chose his name from the Russian word for steel, held the city of Tsaritsen on the Volga from counter-revolutionary forces. Stalin later re-named Tsaritsen [[Stalingrad]] in honor of his victory; Stalingrad would be the site of [[Germany]]'s massive defeat in [[World War II]].
'''Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ''' (Russian ''Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Джугашви́ли'', better known as '''Joseph Stalin''' (December 6, 1878 - March 5, 1953) was the General Secretary of the [[Communist Party]] of the [[Soviet Union]] ([[CPSU]]) from 1922 until his death. The son of a poor Georgian cobbler, Stalin was a former seminary student who joined the Communist Party when Georgia was still under the rule of the Russian Tsar. He became one of [[Lenin|Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's]] closest allies when the Kerensky regime was overthrown by Lenin's faction. During the [[Russian Civil War]] Stalin, who chose his name from the Russian word for steel, held the city of Tsaritsen on the Volga from counter-revolutionary forces. Stalin later re-named Tsaritsen [[Stalingrad]] in honor of his victory; Stalingrad would be the site of [[Germany]]'s massive defeat in [[World War II]].
==Quotes==
==Quotes==
"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." ~ to Churchill, 1945.
"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." ~ to Churchill, 1945.
==Motives==
Through the investigation of many famous cse studies on hte man, it has come to be believed that Stalin's motivation in culling the Russian Political and Social population of, as he deemed them, "unconformers", is of the same vein as Hitler's in his genocide of the Juadic people.<ref>http://www.gendercide.org/case_stalin.html</ref> As both were heavily influenced by the works of Charles Darwin and the "Theory of Natural Selection"<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v27/i2/darwin.asp</ref>, it is thought that these men's regimes were aimed at wiping out those they percieved as unfit to survive (Those unfit to live). Proponents of this theory on their goals cite both men's heavy atheistic beliefs as a heavy influence on their rather pragmatic views on human life and worth.<ref>http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/sgabriel/economics/china-essays/5.html</ref>
==References==
==References==