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Young Stalin (Joseph Stalin #1)

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hardcover | Pages: 397 pages

Rating: 4.15 | 4086 Users | 373 Reviews

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Title	:	Young Stalin (Joseph Stalin #1)
Author	:	Simon Sebag Montefiore
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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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)

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This is better than I thought it would be and is incredibly well-researched; Montefiore really goes into the archives and there are some fascinating personal interviews which illuminate Stalins youth and early adulthood. What comes through is first the debunking of the idea that he was just a bureaucrat, and also how totally unglamorous and in many ways unaccomplished his life was until 1917. The description of how haphazard the Bolsheviks were even as they took power is persuasive, and

Most of this book is an endless repetition of Stalin's escapades as a gangster, bank robber, fundraiser for Lenin and womanizer. It does deal with his early youth in his home village of Gori, his poor and abusive family background and his years at the seminary (also abusive). The rest is one continual episode of gangsterism, and brutal behavior after another as he grows to be, well. Stalin. Names become a befuddlement after awhile and not really worth keeping track of. Most of them wind up dead

This is one of the few biographies I've ever read, and it left me wanting more. Who knew Russian history could be so interesting? (many people, I know, but that particular truth was kept from me until I saw this book in the bargain bin at a book shop) What I liked the most about Young Stalin was the attempt to portray the man as a human being, with all the complexity that such a title entails. He had childhood friends, two wives he loved and neglected, a couple of flawed parents and a history of

Everyone has heard of Stalin. The Russian dictator, with the big moustache who was responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people. The man who took over the Russia Soviet Union from Lenin and lead Russia through World War Two but at the casualty rate of 27 million Russian people; men, women and children. Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore is a book about Stalin before he became Stalin. This book is based on ten years of research on his younger years, his brutal household (alcoholic

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

Now this was an absolutely fascinating, and very powerful book. However, for a Ukrainian-American, it does make for some painful reading (although Ukraine does not figure in the story, I am certain it appears in the sequel to this, the equally acclaimed "In the Court of the Red Tsar".) Stalin was without question one of the most evil leaders in all human history, a man who had no compunction over sending millions to their deaths to further his goals, and (this part was somewhat new to me) a man

A really entertaining read about the life of Stalin... before he actually became Stalin. Filled with a wealth of information about his upbringing, family, friends, relationships, gangster days and the beginnings of the original Politburo in Communist Russia. Would recommend to anyone interested in the personal history of one of the world's most hated dictators.