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was born in 1879, under the name Iosif Vissarionich Dzhugashvili. He was born in Gori, which is now the Republic of Georgia, and his parents were both Georgian peasants who did not know how to speak Russian. However, Stalin learned the Russian language at h ....

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.... he escaped. He was last arrested in 1913, in which he spent four years in exile and was released in 1917. He married for the second time in 1919, to Nadezhda Alliluyeva, who later committed suicide in 1932. Between 1905 and 1917, Stalin followed and supported the Bolshevik party, and in 1907 he helped organize a bank holdup in Tbilisi to expropriate funds for the Bolshevik cause. He was selected by Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Central Committee in 1912 and the following year he briefly edited the new party newspaper, the Pravda (Truth). At Lenin's request he wrote his first major work, Marxism and the Nationality Question. ....