Young Stalin

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Synopsis: Following up on his earlier Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (which won the History Book of the Year Prize at the 2004 British Book Awards), Montefiore here recounts the life of Soviet leader Josef Stalin up to the point of the October Revolution of 1917, focusing on "the intimate and secret, political and personal lives of Stalin and the small circle that ultimately came to create and rule the Soviet Union until the 1960s. " He justifies this focus by suggesting that the personalities and patronage of a minuscule oligarchy were the essence of politics under Lenin and Stalin and that, therefore, Stalin's early history of brigandage, political gangsterism, and paranoia are explanatory of much wider issues of Soviet history.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 479 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780307498922
Publisher:: Alfred A. Knopf
Date of Addition:: 07/20/10
Copyrighted By:: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.