Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin was born in a small town called Gori, his birth name was Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvilli.(Tyrant). Iosif is Russian for Joseph and in 1910 he changed is name to Stalin meaning steel.(Red Tsar) As a student Stalin received a good education which gave him the ability to become dictator of all Russia and to do whatever he pleases. Stalin didn’t have a very good childhood. His father, Vissarion Djugashvilli was a drunk with a bad temper, and was a cobbler by trade.(Joseph Stalin) Stalin was beat badly by his father when he was only eleven years old and his father also died that same year.(Tyrant) Stalin’s