| Product Summary | | Format: Audio Book | | ISBN: 9781433203916 | | Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks | | Publish Date: 1/1/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 205773707 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 6.25H x 7L x 2T |
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| | | Here is Stalin the supreme dictator in the making, a darkly turbulent, charismatic young man fancying himself a poet and a priest and finally embracing revolutionary idealism as his Messianic mission in life.
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In this historical and biographical prequel to the terror of the Stalin era, Simon Sebag Montefiore continues the research into the life of the 20th century's infamous dictator, Josef Stalin, whose notoriety matched Hitler's. As he did in his highly regarded study STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR, Montefiore draws on his extensive research in Russian archives (especially those in Stalin's home state of Georgia), as he focuses on the formative aspects of Stalin's youth and early manhood. He presents a portrait of a troubled, yet clearly gifted, young man as he reveals Stalin's extensive immersion in the criminal underworld of his time. He finds there the seeds of Stalin's brutality and revolutionary fervor--qualities that were noticed by Lenin. And the rest is history.
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