The portrait of Stalin that emerges from these pages is more complete, more colorful, more chilling, and far more convincing than any we have had before.” - The New York Review of Books Winner of the Costa Book Award for BiographyĪ Christian Science Monitor and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Book Prize for Biography 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. Admired as a romantic poet and trained as a priest, he found his true mission as a murderous revolutionary. Montefiore tells the story of a charismatic, darkly turbulent boy born into poverty, scarred by his upbringing but possessed of unusual talents. This revelatory account unveils how Stalin became Stalin, examining his shadowy journey from obscurity to power-from master historian Simon Sebag Montefiore.īased on ten years of research, Young Stalin is a brilliant prehistory of the USSR, a chronicle of the Revolution, and an intimate biography. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs-and one of our pre-eminent historians-comes “a meticulously researched, authoritative biography” ( The New York Times), the companion volume to the prize-winning Stalin, and essential reading for anyone interested in Russian history.
0 kommentar(er)
