HIST 3250Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lev Kamenev, Nikolay Krestinsky, Grigory Zinoviev
22 Feb 2016
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Stalin and the revolution from above: the stalin myth. He was time magazine"s man of the year (not always a positive thing) There was a positive air about stalin for a while until the achieves opened up. His image has undergone a transformation (positive to negative, back and forth) Either an incredible hero or an incredible villain: a brief biography. His real name is iosif vissarionovich dzhugashili. Very little is known about his childhood, mother domestic house wife, father a shoe maker. Family was very poor, not uncommon at this time. Father frequently beat him and his mother, mother also hit him. Two older siblings who died at an early age making him an only child. He didn"t reflect that he had a bad childhood, did not put blame on this. He was a good student and on the path of becoming an orthodox priest (usually the path to success.
