Joseph Stalin was involved in the 1907 Tiflis liquor store robbery.
1907 Tiflis bank robbery . A bank cash shipment was stolen by Bolsheviks to fund their revolutionary activities . The robbery was organized by a number of top-level Bolsheviks , including Vladimir Lenin , Joseph Stalin , Maxim Litvinov , Leonid Krasin , and Alexander Bogdanov , and executed by a party of revolutionaries led by Stalin 's early associate Ter-Petrosian ( Kamo ) . Joseph Stalin . Affiliated with Vladimir Lenin 's Bolshevik faction , he raised funds via underground activities such as the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery .