In this part, I will cover the life of Joseph Stalin from birth to 1938 and analyze his rise to power and his dictatorship.  

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Time stamps 

00:00 Intro 

02:21 Early Life 

17:48 Rise of Joseph Stalin 

38:41 Analyzing the rise of Joseph Stalin 

38:49 Was Trotsky the real successor to Lenin and did Stalin steal Trotsky's job? 

41:26 The Holodomor and 1932-33 famine 

51:39 The Purges 

01:41:22 Nazino Island Tragedy (Stalin's Cannibal Island) 

01:44:30 Outro

Credits

1. Wikipedia - Joseph Stalin

to get base story for Early life & RIse to Power section

2. The purges - https://mltheory.wordpress.com/

3. Everything else - Wikipedia, YouTube & other websites

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