02024nam a22002657a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100080008308200220009110000330011324500170014626000410016330000320020436500210023652012570025765000180151465000230153265000250155565100170158070000340159794200120163199900190164395200960166220211104105941.0211104b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780297850687  cAL  aeng  223a947.084bMONY  aSimon Sebag Montefiore99667  aYoung Stalin  aLondonbWeidenfield & Nicolsonc2007  axxviii,307 p.bHBc24x16 cm  b25.00c£d25.00  aThis 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
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