Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born on December 21 and was the fourth child of his parents after the first three died of health problems. His mother worked as a house laundress, taking in other people's clothes, and his father was a shoemaker. These jobs did not make Iosifs' parents immensely rich. They had to live in poverty as the rest of the Russian peasants had to endure in the late 1919s who got them a place to study in the local church school. Iosif, at the age of seven, survived smallpox. This disease left him with scars all over his face, so much so that other children called him “Pock.” Iosif's mother obtained a place in the local church school for her son in 1888 of religious origin. He progressed well, despite his health problems, and soon received a free scholarship to the Tiflis Theological Seminary. When he was an occupier in Tiflis he joined Messame Dassy, ​​a secret organization whose members support Georgia's independence from the Soviet Union. This is the time and place when Iosif came into contact with the ideas of Karl Marx, a German social philosopher, and became involved in the revolutionary movement against Iosif was expelled from Tiflis in May 1899. This was caused by several reasons why the people believed, like reading forbidden books. and disrespect for authority. It was later discovered that, after his death, he was expelled for attempting to convert his other classmates to Marxism. For six months after being expelled, Iosif remained unemployed and became an active member of underground politics, such as strikes and trade union demonstrations. In the early 1900s he found work giving private lessons to middle-class children. Several months after starting this work, Iosif... at the center of the paper... and the goal of transforming the Soviet Union into an economic power. Works Cited 1.) History.com. “Joseph Stalin”. A&E Television Network. History Channel, 2014. Web. 29 January 2014 http://www.history.com/topics/joseph-2.) Military History Monthly “Military History Monthly – Facts about Stalin: 10 little-known facts”. Military history monthly. Military History Monthly, 2010. Web. 18 November 20103.) BBC News. “Joseph Stalin”. BBC. BBC, 2012. Web. 27 July 2012www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stalin_joseph.shtml>4.) “Joseph Stalin”. 2014. The Biography Channel website. 07 February 2014, 02:11 5.) PBS “Joseph Stalin”. PBS. PBS, 1999. Web. January 26, 1999bios/all_bio_joseph_stalin.htm>