1. Stalin
Stalin was rather sickly as a child; he was badly scarred by smallpox, and another illness crippled his left arm (later in his life, in 1916, this disability will prevent him from joining the Russian army). ... Stalin's first political pseudonym was "Koba" (a fictitious hero in Georgian literature). ... Until the last years of the czarist Russia, Stalin was more an up-and -coming follower than a leader. ... On March 3, 1918, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed; the Russians gave up Ukraine, most of Belorussia, the Baltic States, Poland, Transcaucasia, and Bessarabia. Stalin had ini...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate