R.S.S. During years the history of Stalin and the U.R.S.S was given from limited documents. He gives several examples of uncertain events that got confirmed thanks to that accessible truth. Also a chronology of the main events of Stalin's life and an explanation of the main character of the book are given at the end of the book in order for us to follow the book.
THE SEMINARISTE AND THE MYTHOLOGY: CHAPTER 1.
This chapter gives an overview about Stalin's life before he took the power. We don't know anything certain about the childhood of Stalin, but one thing. He falsified his birthday; he was not born in Gori the 9th of December 1879 but the 9th of December 1878. Why this falsification? Maybe to hide an embarrassing detail. According to the legends and a Russian historian, he was a descendant of the high aristocracy but his parents were poor; they were living in a miserable house. His dad left to Tbilissi, to work in a shoe factory. Around 1883, his mother became the maid of an orthodox priest, Tcharviani. Stalin didn't have much affection for his mother. He didn't assist to her funeral and rarely wrote to her. In 1888, Joseph Stalin entered to the seminar of Gori, in which he will spend 4 years of his life. However, he will meet some difficulties because russian was not his first language but georgian. In 1989, his dad took him away from the seminar and made him work in the factory. A couple of years after his dad's death in 1890, he became a student at the Tiflis Theological Seminary, where he got a strict discipline. There, he initiates himself in secret, to the revolutionary and Marxism ideas. However, he will be kicked out of the seminar in 1899 because for propagating Marxism. This seminar left some traces on Stalin; he will become though, fighter, vulgar towards to authorities. He will take the nickname "koba-, stop working and start an illegal professional revolutionary militant life. In 1901, in a clandestine periodical, he will publish his first article.