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| Publisher: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON |
| Publication Date: 10/05/2007 |
| Format: Hardback |
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The early life of Russia’s most terrible tyrant
What moulded the character of Stalin as a young man? The author of the international bestselling Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar draws on a wealth of new evidence, including Stalin’s own private papers, to trace the genesis of a future tyrant.
Young Stalin is a remarkable adventure story about an exceptional, turbulent young man, who was raised in the church, fancied himself as a poet and then embraced revolutionary idealism.
It describes a life of obscurity, a youth with no prospects – and yet whom emerged as the ultimate political operator, the consummate 20th-century statesman, brutal warlord, supreme dictator and perhaps history’s greatest mass murderer.
All the facets of Stalin the despot have their roots in these times – not merely his psychology, but his hatreds, loves, intellectual interests, gangsterish murderousness, friendships and knowledge of the world. Above all, we see that in the underground Bolshevik life are the seeds that grew into the paranoia and terror of the Soviet imperium. Another masterpiece from one of the 21st century’s most admired history writers.
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RRP £25.00
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