Young Stalin
The shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar--the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil: a merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic world statesman who helped create and indu...
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New York
Alfred A. Knopf
2007
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Keke's miracle : Soso
- Crazy Beso
- Brawlers, wrestlers and choirboys
- A hanging in Gori
- The poet and the priesthood
- The "young man with the burning eyes"
- Battle of the dormitories : Soso versus Father "Black spot"
- The weatherman : parties and princes
- Stalin goes underground : Konspiratsia
- "I'm working for the Rothschilds!" : fire, massacre and arrest in Batumi
- pt. 2. The prisoner
- The frozen Georgian : Siberian exile
- Bolshevik temptress
- 1905 : king of the mountain
- 1905 : fighters, urchins and dressmakers
- 1905 : the Mountain Eagle : Stalin meets Lenin
- The man in grey : marriage, mayhem (and Sweden)
- Pirate and father
- Stalin in London
- Kamo goes insane : the game of bandits and cossacks
- The tragedy of Kato : Stalin's stony heart
- Boss of the black city : plutocrats, protection-rackets and piracy
- Louse racing, murder and madness : prison games
- "River cock" and the noblewoman
- "The milkman" : was Stalin a Tsarist agent?
- pt. 3. Two lost fiancées and a pregnant peasant
- The Central Committee and "Glamourpuss" the schoolgirl
- "Don't forget that name and be very wary!"
- The escapist : Kamo's leap and the last bank robbery
- Travels with the mysterious Valentina
- Vienna, 1913 : the wonderful Georgian, the Austrian artist and the Old Emperor
- The secret policeman's ball : betrayal in drag
- pt. 4. "Darling, I'm in desperate straits"
- 1914 : arctic sex comedy
- The hunter
- The Robinson Crusoe of Siberia
- Stalin's reindeer-propelled sleigh and a Siberian son
- pt. 5. 1917 spring : floundering leader
- 1917 summer : sailors on the streets
- 1917 autumn : Soso and Nadya
- 1917 winter : the countdown
- Glorious October 1917 : the bungled uprising
- Power : Stalin out of the shadows.