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Young Stalin

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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#1315 of 3,809 books · #463 in Biography & Memoir

Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (2007).

Young Stalin won the Costa Biography Award. What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet, prolific lover, gangster mastermind and murderous revolutionary. Culminating in the 1917 revolution, Simon Sebag Montefiore's biography radically alters our understanding of the gifted politician and fanatical Marxist who shaped the Soviet empire in his own brutal image. This is the story of how Stalin became Stalin.

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Publisher
Hachette UK
ISBN-13
9780297863847
Topics
Joseph Stalin's early lifeRussian RevolutionSoviet history

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