Unlike the intellectual party members, his contribution to the cause was practical, not theoretical. ... Stalin was in Siberia until February, when he returned to Moscow after failing to do much to stop the advance (and after heavily criticizing both the local Red Army commander and Trotsky himself for the weaknesses of the Bolshevik forces he was in charge of). ... Shortly thereafter Stalin had 67 officers executed because they had disagreed with him over the handling of the Red Army counterattack. ... She was seventeen when they married, and Stalin was 39. ...

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