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Young Stalin

By Simon Sebag Montefiore
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In Young Stalin, Simon Sebag Montefiore paints a vivid portrait of the early years of Joseph Stalin, exploring his transformation from a rebellious Georgian youth to a ruthless Bolshevik revolutionary. The biography delves into his formative experiences, ideological development, and the influences that shaped his path to power, offering an engrossing insight into his complex character before he became the notorious leader of the Soviet Union.
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You might enjoy this fascinating biography if you're interested in understanding the early life of one of history's most enigmatic figures. The book delves into the formative years of a young revolutionary, uncovering the influences and experiences that shaped his path to power. Simon Sebag Montefiore's skillful storytelling and attention to detail bring this historical era vividly to life, providing a gripping narrative that offers insight into both the individual and the turbulent times he lived in.

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Young Stalin

Vital prequel to the internationally bestselling biography STALIN: COURT OF THE RED TSAR

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Winner of the Costa Biography Award

What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start?

Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet, prolific lover, gangster mastermind, and murderous revolutionary. Culminating in the 1917 revolution, Simon Sebag Montefiore's bestselling biography radically alters our understanding of the gifted politician and fanatical Marxist who shaped the Soviet empire in his own brutal image. This is the story of how Stalin became Stalin.

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Simon Sebag Montefiore's Young Stalin is highly praised for its thrilling and detailed portrait of Stalin's early years. The book is noted for providing a vivid and psychologically rich narrative, often compared to the works of great novelists like Dickens. Montefiore's account is regarded as both entertaining and masterful, unearthing long-lost documents and creating a biopic-style depiction of Stalin's formative experiences, including dramatic events such as the 1907 Tiflis heist.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781474614825

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 September 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Illustration: 74

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 480

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Biography & Memoir European History History & Military Non-Fiction Political Biographies Russian & Soviet History Simon Sebag Montefiore

About the Author

Simon Sebag Montefiore is an internationally bestselling author and historian whose prize-winning books have been published in forty-eight languages. Catherine the Great and Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Prize. Young Stalin won the Costa Biography Award (UK), the LA Times Book Prize for Biography (USA), the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique (France), and the Kreisky Prize (Austria). Jerusalem: The Biography - A History of the Middle East was a number one Sunday Times (UK) bestseller, a global bestseller and won The Book of the Year Prize from the Jewish Book Council (US) and the Wenjin Book Prize of the National Library of China (People's Republic of China). The Romanovs: 1613-1918 won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize (Italy); and The World: A Family History, a NYTimes and Sunday Times bestseller, was named The Times History Book of the Year. In 2025, he was awarded the Blue Metropolis Words to Change Prize (Canada) for "his body of work in humanity and history.' He is also the author of the Moscow Trilogy of novels: Sashenka, Red Sky at Noon and One Night in Winter, which won the Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year Prize. He read history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University where he received his PhD. He is the presenter of five history series for the BBC and many of his books are being developed for movies or drama series.

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