01919nam a22002537a 4500 20211104105941.0 211104b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780297850687 AL eng 23 947.084 MONY Simon Sebag Montefiore 9667 Young Stalin London Weidenfield & Nicolson 2007 xxviii,307 p. HB 24x16 cm 25.00 £ 25.00 This revelatory account unveils how Stalin became Stalin, examining his shadowy journey from obscurity to power—from master historian Simon Sebag Montefiore. Based on ten years of research, Young Stalin—companion to the prizewinning Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar—is a brilliant prehistory of the USSR, a chronicle of the Revolution, and an intimate biography. Montefiore tells the story of a charismatic, darkly turbulent boy born into poverty, scarred by his upbringing but possessed of unusual talents. Admired as a romantic poet and trained as a priest, he found his true mission as a murderous revolutionary. Here is the dramatic story of his friendships and hatreds, his many love affairs, his complicated relationship with the Tsarist secret police, and how he became the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image. Described by The New York Times as "a meticulously researched, autoritative biography," Young Stalin is essential reading for anyone interested in Russian history. Winner of the Costa Book Award for Biography A Christian Science Monitor and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year https://sites.google.com/menbooks.zya.me/amonbooks02/pdfbook-download-young-stalin-simon-sebag-montefiore-book History 9669 Soviet Union 9670 Heads of State 9671 Russia 9672 MONEFIORE (Simon Sebag) 9668 ddc GF 220376 220376 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 947.084 MONY GF03507 2021-11-04 00:00:00 GF