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Stalin’s birthplace, Gori (1878 / 1930s)

On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Gori”

1878 / 1930s — In this Georgian town, Stalin was born Ioseb Jughashvili, the son of a cobbler. The family rented a single room here. In 1937 the regime opened a museum at his birthplace and enclosed that room in a grand stone pavilion, making a shrine of the cobbler’s home.

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Turning point
Chapter
Stalin’s cult of personality (chapter 8 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
Atlas
The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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Map showing Stalin’s birthplace, Gori (1878 / 1930s), turning point in The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
TURNING POINT · THE SOVIET UNION UNDER STALIN, 1924–1953

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