Title:  Young Stalin
Author: by Simon Sebag Montefiore
 
Format: Paperback 
Book condition:  Used - Good to Very Good.  Yellowing of pages. 
Cover:  Good to Very Good.  Shelf wear and edge wear to cover.  Slight corner bumping to edges.   
 
 
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography  
 
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.
 
 
Publisher: ‎ Vintage; Reprint, 2008 
Language: ‎ English
Paperback: ‎ 528 pages
ISBN-10: ‎ 9781400096138
ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1400096138
Dimensions: ‎ 5.3 x 8 inches
 
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