This essay details and analyzes the
influences in Josef Stalin's life up to 1927. The author examines how Stalin was not
an intellectual man, but one who learned from the ideas of others and twisted them to serve his own ambitions. The
paper discusses those experiences and people that influenced Stalin to become so especially talented at his kind of dictatorship. They include
influences from his childhood through his friendship with Lenin. This paper explains how the monster of a man came to be.