The story of Josef Stalin
[Origin] [Education] [Rise to Power] [Leadership] [Role in WWII] [Death]Stalin was required to learn the language of instruction during his school life at the Gori church school which he attended between 1888 until 1894.The greatest pupil in the school, "Soso" as his friends referred to him as earned a full scholarship to the Tbilisi Theological Seminary and later became leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).