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At the end of November 1901, on the instructions of the Tiflis Committee, Joseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin) is going to Batum. Here he makes the social-democratic organization, founded Batum Committee of the RSDLP, establishes an underground printing plant, writes fiery leaflets, print and distribute them, leading the struggle of the workers in the factories and Mantashev Rothschild, and organized revolutionary propaganda in the countryside. April 5, 1902, Comrade Koba (Stalin) was arrested by police and jailed. In the fall of 1903 Dzhugashvili are sent to Eastern Siberia, where in January 1904 he escaped from exile, first in Batum, then in Tiflis.