He grew up in a mountain town of about 5,000 people. ... His father used to drink and beat him and his mother; this made Stalin very cold hearted. ... Stalin's character was formed through an early environment of his father's uncontrollable rages, and ill treatment. ... The death of his first wife added more coldness to his heart. ...
Throughout the novel, Gladkov provides the reader with a window for understanding the emotions of Gleb and Dasha Chumalov, the main characters. ... Upon Gleb's return to his hometown, the narrator describes, "In Gleb's heart-swollen and throbbing-he heard the mountains and the quarries, the smoke stacks and the dwellings the factory Diesel engines the revolving cylinders in the furnace room" (Gladkov 3). ... Greeting him coldly, she exclaims, "What's wrong with you, Comrade Gleb? ... While the goal of communism remains present in the spirited character of Gleb, t...
Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...
