The boyeviki, though they also perpetrated some daring robberies in Moscow and even in the capital, were particularly active in the Caucasus where their operations were directed by a sullen pock-marked Georgian, a former theological student named Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, who also used the conspiratorial pseudonym Koba, and the pen name Stalin. On occasion Stalin took part in the raids — he also took part in the party congress at Stockholm which had outlawed them — but his field commander was usually a tough, cheerful, cross-eyed incredibly daring young fellow Georgian named Ter
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