He loves knowledge, always studies hard and has been engaged in self-education.
Keep reading. Stalin read countless books in his life, involving history, politics, military affairs, philosophy, literature, education, biology and other fields. Comparatively speaking, he prefers liberal arts. The 1937 version of yevgeni onegin, a Pushkin novel written by Stalin, remains in the Russian National Library. Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and "The History of German National Socialism" were both carefully read by Stalin. He patiently studied works including Lenin, Marx and Engels.
Stalin claimed to read no less than 500 pages every day, and some new books and newspapers were sent to him almost every day.
In his books, some books have left traces of being stained by tea leaves and the marks of cup holders, some books have left traces of yellow nicotine when cleaning pipes, and some books have also sprinkled ash.
In his residence, there are 100 soft pencils. When reading, he likes to draw with colored pencils. He will read the particularly meaningful content many times and use different pencil colors to help him remember it.
When he sees an interesting place or needs a rest, he will fold a corner of the book or put a bookmark on it. He made hundreds of bookmarks, which were often cut from pink paper or white paper, and sometimes he tore off a corner of a newspaper or several pages of a desk calendar.
An outstanding poet who was delayed. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, Stalin, a sophomore in a seminary, took his poems to the office of the famous Iberian newspaper and was received by Prince Ilya Chavchavadze. Chavchavadze, Georgia's greatest romantic poet, appreciated Soso's poems and introduced him to the editor, calling him an "enthusiastic young man".
Before he became famous as a revolutionary, Stalin's reputation as a poet had spread in his hometown of Georgia.
19 12 years, Stalin and Krupskaya chose Gorky's poem "The Legend of Althea" as the cipher book when solving the cipher. He once copied this poem by hand, and a copy of it has been kept to this day.
Because he loved literature, he protected the later Nobel Prize in Literature winner Pasternak. His opponent said, "Don't disturb this poet on earth." In addition, Shostakovich, bulgakov and Eisenstein also saved their lives because of his appreciation.
The theological seminary poet never publicly admitted that he had written poetry. He once said to a friend, "I lost interest in writing poetry, because it would exhaust all my energy and patience-at that time, I was like mercury."
Perhaps the revolutionary life made him unable to concentrate on poetry and made him feel weak and sad, so his identity as a poet was buried.
Lots of personal books. Stalin had his first house in the Kremlin and began to collect private books. Before his death, he had about 20,000 books. 1932 After Stalin's wife nadezhda died, 1934 built a villa for her in the suburbs of Moscow, and most of Stalin's books in the Kremlin were transported to the villa.
During the period of 1955, when the Stalin Memorial Hall is to be built in Conchevo Villa, the staff of Stalin Research Office of Ma-en-Lenin-Stalin Institute can enter Stalin's library. One of the members of the special committee engaged in this work is Evgeniya mikhailov Zolotushina, who is a cataloger in the library of the institute and a staff member of the consulting department.
According to Zorro Tuhina, Stalin's books in the Kremlin are kept in many old-fashioned bookcases, and there are many kinds. Many writers try to give their books to Stalin, and there are often messages in them.
Stalin is a very learned man, and he is very angry with sentences and sick sentences that are unreasonable in arts and sciences. He revised them one by one with a red pencil, and these books were handed over to the the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Archives accordingly. "
According to Zolotushina, when analyzing Stalin's two books, The Kremlin and Villa, the first thing that caught her attention was Stalin's interest in Pushkin, which was manifested in that "many books about Pushkin were collected together-all related books published in the Soviet era and several old books about Pushkin, and many of them also had the credentials of old bookstores.
Stalin is also interested in books about Peter I and Ivan the Terrible. In addition, there are several books in German ... "Stalin also read all Russian immigrant literature ... including the biographies of the famous Rome Gully-voroshilov and others. After the victory of the Great Patriotic War, Stalin became interested in architectural books and magazines, which may be related to the construction of high-rise buildings in Moscow. These books were placed beside Stalin's bed ... "
Stalin's private library collected all the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin published by the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 40s. Obviously, Stalin read Lenin's works very carefully. Stalin also collected almost all the works of German socialist theorists such as karl kautsky and rosa luxemburg. The collection also includes books of his direct political opponents, such as Trotsky, Bukharin, Kamenev and others.
In the 1920s, Stalin ordered nearly 500 books to read or browse every year. He has a very rare ability, called fast reading and very good memory.
According to Ji Spearing, who studies Stalin's collection of books, most of the books that entered Stalin's private library in the 1920s and 1930s were stamped with the seal of "Stalin's Collection of Books", and there were 5,500 kinds of books stamped with this seal. However, there is no such seal on many books of Russian and world literary classics and many other art and science books.
Usually Stalin doesn't make any marks on these books. About 65,438+0.65,438+0,000 copies were handed over to the National Library of the Soviet Union-the National Lenin Library.
Favorite book in legend. Theoretically, Stalin's favorite books should be mostly political, but in legend, he also likes cultural books very much.
In 1907' s Wool, when he was paraded by the authorities, he held his head high and held the gospel of his faith-Das Kapital, which showed his stubborn and fearless character.
Other books that are often mentioned are: A Lady's Paradise by Zola. Zola is one of the writers admired by Joseph Stalin.
Dostoevsky's brother Kara Matsov. Stalin mentioned Dostoevsky as a profound psychologist. Stalin in his youth was in high spirits when reading Dostoevsky's works. When reading brothers karamazov, circle it with a highlighter and take notes in the blank.
Mobs in Gustave Le Bon. Mainly as an introduction to sociology.
Tiger Warrior in Rustavili. He knows all the translations of this book. When the new edition of this book was published between 1940 and 194 1, Stalin even made some changes to the Georgian edition. The Bible. Stalin often quoted excerpts from the Bible in his daily life. Chekhov's short stories. Stalin quoted Chekhov's story chapters many times. Almost every story has a glimmer of hope and redemption, but it is also mixed with despair and darkness.
Nicolo Machiavelli, the monarch. It is said that this is his favorite book, from which he learned the way of governing the country.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said, "I thought I knew enough about Stalin, but I was wrong."
This politician has a complicated life experience. Revolutionaries with thunderous means, emotional poets, gentle trainee priests, Siberian natives, hunters who drink and hunt-and so on.
Stalin said: "The most precious thing in life is life, what life needs most is study, what life enjoys most is work, and the most important thing in life is friendship."
I also said, "Life is always hot for people with ideals."
He practiced his ideals and studied throughout his life, which made him an ideological tough guy.