Killer of the Masses.

The article profiles former Russian Prime Minister Joseph Stalin. He was born on December 21, 1879 in the town of Gori in Georgia. His father was a shoemaker, an alcoholic who beat Stalin unmercifully. He was expelled from the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tiflis for reading radical literature. He established the Workers and Peasants' Inspectorate called Rabkrin at the end of the Civil War. He became the General Secretary of the Central Committee in 1922. The rise of Stalin from the 1930s to his death in 1953 is also highlighted.