Joseph Stalin was born on December 18th, 1878, under the name of Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. His parents were Besarion Jughashvili and Ketevan Geladze. Stalin was infected with smallpox at the age of seven, due to the small pox he would have to live his life with multiple scars on his face. A few years after his sickness, a carriage mishap took place leaving his arm slightly deformed. Due to his deformed arm, he was bullied by the neighborhood kids. His mother had always wanted Stalin to become a priest, and enrolled him in a church school in 1888 and left in 1899. In 1901. He joined the SDLP (Social Democratic Labor Party) and devoted much of his time to this movement. He was arrested in 1902 for organizing a labor strike, he was later banished to Siberia. His name Stalin means steel in russian was adopted through the many arrests and exiles. While in prison, he still managed to order meeting, publicizing leaflets, arranging strikes and demonstrations. Stalin escaped banishment and was proclaimed as an outlaw. Building up his money, arranging kidnappings, and fraud are all things he managed to do while in hiding. He became well known when he was an accessory to the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery. In this incident he stole 250,000 rubles (about 3.4 million dollars), and killed multiple people. February of 1917, things would begin to change, starting with the Russian Revolution and ending with the Bolsheviks control in October.