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Original Title:	Young Stalin
ISBN:	0297850687 (ISBN13: 9780297850687)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Joseph Stalin #1
Characters:	Joseph Stalin
Literary Awards:	James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Biography (2007), Costa Book Award for Biography (2007), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (2007)

Young Stalin (Joseph Stalin #1)

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hardcover | Pages: 397 pages

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Title	:	Young Stalin (Joseph Stalin #1)
Author	:	Simon Sebag Montefiore
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 397 pages
Published	:	2007 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Categories	:	History. Biography. Nonfiction. Cultural. Russia. Russian History. Politics

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This is Stalin before he was “Stalin.” While Montefiore's previous book, The Court of the Red Tsar, covers Stalin’s years in power, here we get a look into his childhood home and abuse, his questionable parentage, his career as a poet (who knew?!), his seminary schooling, his early crimes, arrests, exiles, his multiple girlfriends, his meeting with Lenin, his early rivalry with Trotsky, and his seemingly constant impregnating of teenagers and fathering of children he never met. Both his marriages are briefly explored, as are his mommy-issues. We get a sense of what might have created the detached, emotionless, egotistical, monstrous “Stalin” that we know. There’s a lot of “never before published” firsthand information and anecdotes from childhood friends, ex in-laws, old flames, acquaintances. Probably my favorite revelation was that Stalin’s lover later became his second mother-in-law and rumors went around that his much younger second wife was really his daughter (this was later debunked as the dates were a couple of years off). The book also includes some of his poetry, which was quite unexpected.

Montefiore's writing approach is accessible and I loved reading it. I’ll definitely be seeking out his other book.

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Stalin has been seen as a one dimensional person - mostly a tyrant/dictator. The book offers information never before published from the disintegrating Georgian archives and memoirs or interviews from (the few) survivors. Stalin's personal history was mutated into a huge cult myth during his lifetime and then equally distorted by the west and also by those who denounced him after his death. He was a monster that rose up from questionable and murky origins (we don't even know who his father

Whoever wants to know how a person like Stalin is created in a society of ferocity and oppression, this is the book. The kind of narration employed by the writer is really astonishing.

During high school I recall having a group conversation with fellow students about what we would do if power was thrust upon us by events. It was 1968 or '69 and we were, however naif, serious. Young Stalin covers his life until the revolution in 1917, a topic substantially veiled until the breakup of the Soviet Union. The little I knew about Stalin before reading this book was from two, unsympathetic, sides: either that of Trotsky and his followers or that of social democrats whose affections

As I am planning to read, Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar, I thought it would make sense to read this volume first and I am so glad that I did. This volume takes Stalin from his childhood, up to 1917, and encompasses so much. I knew very little about Stalin, before reading this, and so this was full of surprises for me. It begins with a bank raid of which Stalin was involved in many to get money for the cause. Montefiore writes as though this is fiction, rather than fact, and really draws the

Oh, the "what ifs" of history - if only Stalin had obeyed his mother's wishes and become a priest (or his father's and become a cobbler). But Simon Montefiore's Young Stalin explores why he didn't.Young Stalin fills in the period from Stalin's birth in 1878 to the success of the Bolsheviks in 1917, only touched on in Montefiore's earlier biography, The Court of the Red Tsar. The book attempts to explain from whence the brutal megalomaniacal dictator of both Soviet and Western myth emerged, and

This is Stalin before he was Stalin. While Montefiore's previous book, The Court of the Red Tsar, covers Stalins years in power, here we get a look into his childhood home and abuse, his questionable parentage, his career as a poet (who knew?!), his seminary schooling, his early crimes, arrests, exiles, his multiple girlfriends, his meeting with Lenin, his early rivalry with Trotsky, and his seemingly constant impregnating of teenagers and fathering of children he never met. Both his marriages

Outstanding biography of the man who became a monster. Simon Sebag Montefiore has a deep understanding of the time, country and context; & new sources that shed light on Stalins early years. Its a compelling story told in a pacy, narrative style. Helped me understand how the type of person he was, hard childhood & violent town - combined w his passion for the cause - shaped Stalin. Fascinating, disturbing & nuanced. Highly recommended.