Editing Kliment Voroshilov (section)

==Early life==
Voroshilov was born in the settlement of Verkhnyeye, [[Bakhmut]] [[uyezd]], [[Yekaterinoslav Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]] (now part of [[Lysychansk]] city in [[Luhansk Oblast]], [[Ukraine]]).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=1089 | title=Ворошилов Климент Ефремович | language=ru | publisher=Герои Страны (Heroes of the Country) | access-date=11 March 2018}}</ref> His father, a former soldier, was employed at different times as a railway worker or miner, and went through periods of unemployment. According to the Soviet [[Major General]] [[Petro Grigorenko]], Voroshilov himself alluded to the heritage of his birth-country (Ukraine) and to the previous family name of ''Voroshylo''.<ref>Pyotr Grigorenko. ''"В ПОДПОЛЬЕ МОЖНО ВСТРЕТИТЬ ТОЛЬКО КРЫС..." (In the underground one may find only rats...)''. Institute "Open society" - Cooperation and Association Fund "Liberty Road". 1981 ([http://www.memo.ru/HISTORY/DISS/books/grightml/index.htm Cover of the book] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120610065755/http://www.memo.ru/history/diss/books/grightml/index.htm |date=10 June 2012 }})</ref>

[[File:Kliment Voroshilov with Semen Ryzhkov (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Klim Voroshilov with his teacher Semyon Ryzhkov|alt=]]
In his published autobiography, Voroshilov described a childhood of extreme hardship, working from the age of six or seven, and receiving frequent beatings from wealthy peasants, which left him with a lifelong aversion to '[[kulak]]s'. He grew up illiterate, until he was able to enroll in a newly opened school in a nearby village, at the age of 12, and received two years' schooling.<ref name="Haupt">{{cite book |last1=Georges Haupt |first1=and Jean-Jacques Marie |title=Makers of the Russian Revolution, Biographies of Bolshevik Leaders |date=1974 |publisher=George Allen & Unwin |location=(This volume contains a translation of a biographical essay by Voroshilov, written for a Soviet encyclopaedia around 1926) London |isbn=0-04-947021-3 |page=281}}</ref> During his school years, Voroshilov became a close friend and almost a member of the family of [[Semen Ryzhkov|Semyon Ryzhkov]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ворошилов, Климент Ефремович – это... Что такое Ворошилов, Климент Ефремович?|url=https://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_biography/131466/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2|access-date=4 September 2020|website=Словари и энциклопедии на Академике|language=ru}}</ref>

In 1896, he started work in a factory near his home village, where he led a strike in 1899. In 1903, he enrolled in a German owned factory in [[Luhansk]] (which was renamed Voroshilov during the Stalin era). There, he joined the [[Bolsheviks]], and acted as a strike leader during the [[Russian Revolution of 1905|1905 revolution]]. In April 1906, he travelled to [[Stockholm]] for the Fourth Congress of the [[Russian Social Democratic Labour Party]] (RSDLP), using the provocative pseudonym 'Volodya Antimekov' or Anti-[[Mensheviks|Menshevik]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wolfe |first1=Bertram D. |title=Three Who Made a Revolution, A Biographical History |date=1966 |publisher=Penguin |location=Harmondsworth, Middlesex |page=390}}</ref> In Stockholm, he shared a room with the delegate from Georgia, Josif Dzhugashvili, later known as Stalin.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Robert C. |title=Stalin As Revolutionary, 1879–1929 |date=1974 |publisher=Chatto & Windus |location=London |isbn=0-7011-2054-1 |page=86}}</ref>

In spring 1907, he travelled to London for the Fifth RSDLP Congress. On his return, he was arrested and deported to [[Arkhangelsk Oblast|Arkhangelsk]], but in December he escaped and moved to Baku, where Stalin was also active. Arrested again in 1908, he was released from exile in 1912, and for a time worked in an ordnance factory in [[Tsaritsyn]] (Stalingrad/Volgagrad).<ref name="Haupt" />