12th January 1913: The name “Stalin” meaning “man of steel” first used in print by Joseph Dzhugashvili

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Like many underground revolutionaries, Joseph Dzhugashvili made frequent use of pseudonyms to evade police surveillance, and first used the alias “K. Stalin” as the signature to a letter in the Social ...

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