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A son, Yevgeny was born on 10 January 1936, after Golysheva returned home. [20] Dzugashvili only learnt of his son in 1938 and ensured he took his surname, though Stalin never recognised Yevgeny as his grandson. [21] Dzhugashvili married Yulia Meltzer, a well-known Jewish dancer from Odessa.
After Lenin's death, he led the failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s, leading to his exile and eventual assassination. Stalin viewed him as a leading competitor for power, and ordered Trotsky's name and image to be thoroughly erased from Soviet history.
Leningrad party leader Sergei Kirov with Stalin (and his daughter Svetlana) in 1934. By 1934, several of Stalin's rivals, such as Trotsky, began calling for Stalin's removal and attempted to break his control over the party. [30] In this atmosphere of doubt and suspicion, the popular high-ranking official Sergei Kirov was assassinated.
Although Stalin did not share Lenin's belief that Europe's proletariat were on the verge of revolution, he acknowledged that Soviet Russia remained vulnerable. [154] In February 1920, he was appointed to head the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate (Rabkrin); [155] that same month he was also transferred to the Caucasian Front. [156]
Russian historian Roy Medvedev speculates in his book, Neizvestnyi Stalin, that Stalin had made Suslov his "secret heir". [48] Evidently, Beria felt so threatened by Suslov that after his arrest in 1953, documents were found in his safe labelling Suslov the No. 1 person he wanted to "eliminate".
Vasily was born on 21 March 1921, the son of Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva. [1] He had an older half-brother, Yakov Dzhugashvili (born 1907), from his father's first marriage to Kato Svanidze, and a younger sister, Svetlana, born in 1926.
Svanidze was subsequently arrested for her revolutionary connections, and shortly after her release—on 18 March 1907—she gave birth to Stalin's son, Yakov. [169] Stalin nicknamed his new-born son "Patsana". [170] By 1907—according to Robert Service—Stalin had established himself as "Georgia's leading Bolshevik". [171]
In 1938, Stalin ordered Alyosha and his wife, Maria, to be arrested. He demanded Alyosha admit he was a German spy, but Alyosha refused. [34] Alyosha was executed in 1941, while Mariko and Maria were shot in 1942. [35] Alyosha and Maria's son, Ivan Svanidze, was briefly married to Stalin's only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva. He filed for ...