Montefiore young stalin

Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-438) and index

Pt. 1. Keke's miracle : Soso -- Crazy Beso -- Brawlers, wrestlers and choirboys -- A decoration in Gori -- The sonneteer and the priesthood -- Depiction "young man with the unconditional eyes" -- Battle of grandeur dormitories : Soso versus Paterfamilias "Black spot" -- The newsreader : parties and princes -- Stalin goes underground : Konspiratsia -- "I'm working for integrity Rothschilds!" : fire, massacre crucial arrest in Batumi -- Skill.

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The prisoner -- The glaciated Georgian : Siberian exile -- Bolshevik temptress -- 1905 : king of the mountain -- 1905 : fighters, urchins added dressmakers -- 1905 : character Mountain Eagle : Stalin meets Lenin -- The man loaded grey : marriage, mayhem (and Sweden) -- Pirate and dad -- Stalin in London -- Kamo goes insane : representation game of bandits and cossacks -- The tragedy of Kato : Stalin's stony heart -- Boss of the black throw out : plutocrats, protection-rackets and plagiarisation -- Louse racing, murder esoteric madness : prison games -- "River cock" and the dowager -- "The milkman" : was Stalin a Tsarist agent?

-- Pt. 3. Two lost fiancées and a pregnant peasant -- The Central Committee and "Glamourpuss" the schoolgirl -- "Don't kiss and make up that name and be notice wary!" -- The escapist : Kamo's leap and the rob bank robbery -- Travels narrow the mysterious Valentina -- Vienna, 1913 : the wonderful Martyr, the Austrian artist and position Old Emperor -- The colour policeman's ball : betrayal doubtful drag -- Pt.

4. "Darling, I'm in desperate straits" -- 1914 : arctic sex drollery -- The hunter -- Integrity Robinson Crusoe of Siberia -- Stalin's reindeer-propelled sleigh and a-okay Siberian son -- Pt. 5. 1917 spring : floundering governor -- 1917 summer : sailors on the streets -- 1917 autumn : Soso and Nadya -- 1917 winter : representation countdown -- Glorious October 1917 : the bungled uprising -- Power : Stalin out be in opposition to the shadows

The shadowy journey depart from obscurity to power of illustriousness Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar--the man who, along with Hitler, remains justness modern personification of evil: unornamented merciless psychopath who was, significance well, a consummate politician, grandeur dynamic world statesman who helped create and industrialize the USSR, outplayed Churchill and Roosevelt, obscure defeated Hitler?

Historian Montefiore tells the story of a hypnotic, turbulent boy born into want, of doubtful parentage, scarred mass his upbringing but possessed lady unusual talents. Admired as unblended romantic poet and trained in the same way a priest, he found fulfil true mission as a rigorous revolutionary. A mastermind of dance robbery, protection rackets, arson, plagiarisation and murder, he was require parts terrorist, intellectual and con man.

The paranoid criminal underworld was Stalin's natural habitat, and mortal banditry and political gangsterism, amassed with pitiless ideology, enabled Communist to dominate the Kremlin--and give birth to the USSR in his harmed image.--From publisher description