Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT ·
Stalin’s birthplace, Gori (1878 / 1930s)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Gori”
1878 / 1930s — Stalin was born Ioseb Jughashvili in this Georgian town, the son of a cobbler. The regime opened a museum at his birthplace in 1937 and enclosed the single room the family had rented in a grand stone pavilion, turning a cobbler’s home into a shrine.
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- Stalin’s cult of personality (chapter 8 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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