jan 1, 1902 - Lenin and Stalin

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1902 Mar 31 The Russian Marxist, Lenin, is about to turn 32. His book What Is to be Done is to be published this month. In it he describes his elder in the socialists movement, the German Eduard Bernstein, 52, as having abandoned Marx's scientific socialism. Bernstein wants to update Marxism, taking into account Marx's failed predictions. Lenin is fervent and sees no failed predictions.

1902 Apr 5 In the land of his birth, Georgia, on the Black Sea coast at Batumi, Stalin (real name, Jughashvili), 23, is an impoverished but bright young man devoted to anti-establishment politics. He has been organizing oil workers into action, made easier by horrible working conditions while foreign oil company executives are living in mansions and sailing their yachts. There are clashes between workers and police. Blood flows. Stalin on this day is arrested and to be put in prison.

1903 Dec 9 Imprisoned since April 1902, in August this year Stalin was transferred to Siberia. On this day he arrives at his assigned area in south-central Siberia: Novaya Uda. The Russian Empire will provide him with a little cash to survive – cheaper perhaps than having to house him in an actual prison.

1904 Jan 17 Stalin walks away from his exile in Siberia and is on his way to Tiflis (Tblisi) in his native Georgia. He returns to political organizing. Before the year is over he will be siding with the Bolsheviks and will be noticed by Lenin, who is living in exile in Switzerland.

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