Young Stalin

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Издание 2007 года

Автор: Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре

Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары

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Объём: 521 страниц

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Аннотация

Stalin, like Hitler, remains the very personification of evil but also one of the creators of today’s world. Now in an enthralling biography that reads like a thriller, Simon Sebag Montefiore unveils the shadowy, adventurous journey of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar.

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What makes a Stalin? Was he illegitimate? Was his mother whore or saint? Was Stalin a Tsarist agent or Lenin’s chief gangster? Was his most notorious heist planned during his stay in London? Was he to blame for his wife’s death? If he really missed the 1917 Revolution, how did he emerge so powerful?

Born in poverty, scarred by his upbringing, exceptional in his studies, this charismatic but dangerous boy was hailed as a romantic poet and trained as a priest but found his mission as fanatical revolutionary. He became the mastermind of bank-robberies, protection-rackets, arson, piracy and murder yet he was, uniquely, part-intellectual, part-brigand. Surprisingly, he is also revealed as a scandalously prolific lover, leaving a trail of mistresses (varying from schoolgirls to noblewomen) and illegitimate children.

Here is the arch-conspirator and escape-artist whose brutal ingenuity so impressed Lenin that he made Stalin (with Trotsky) his top henchman. The paranoid underworld of Joseph Conrad-style terrorism was Stalin’s natural habitat. Montefiore shows how clannish Caucasian banditry and murderous gangsterism, combined with pitiless ideology, qualified Stalin to dominate the Kremlin—and create the USSR in his flawed image.

Based on massive research and astonishing new evidence in archives from Moscow to Georgia, Young Stalin, companion and prequel to bestselling, prizewinning Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, is a chronicle of the Revolution, a pre-history of the USSR—and a fascinatingly intimate biography: this is how Stalin became Stalin.

Stalin ’s Family
Maps
Introduction
List of Characters
Note
Prologue The Bank Robbery
PART ONE
Morning
1. Keke ’s Miracle: Soso
2. Crazy Beso
3. Brawlers, Wrestlers and Choirboys
4. A Hanging in Gori
5. The Poet and the Priesthood
6. The “Young Man with the Burning Eyes”
7. Battle of the Dormitories: Soso versus Father “Black Spot”
8. The Weatherman: Parties and Princes
9. Stalin Goes Underground: Konspiratsia
10. “I’m Working for the Rothschilds!”—Fire, Massacre and Arrest in Batumi
PART TWO
To the Moon
11. The Prisoner
12. The Frozen Georgian: Siberian Exile
13. Bolshevik Temptress
14. 1905: King of the Mountain
15. 1905: Fighters, Urchins and Dressmakers
16. 1905: The Mountain Eagle —Stalin Meets Lenin
17. The Man in Grey: Marriage, Mayhem (and Sweden)
18. Pirate and Father
19. Stalin in London
20. Kamo Goes Insane: The Game of Bandits and Cossacks
21. The Tragedy of Kato: Stalin ’s Stony Heart
22. Boss of the Black City: Plutocrats, Protection-Rackets and Piracy
23. Louse Racing, Murder and Madness —Prison Games
24. “River Cock” and the Noblewoman
25. “The Milkman”: Was Stalin a Tsarist Agent?
PART THREE
26. Two Lost Fianc ées and a Pregnant Peasant
27. The Central Committee and “Glamourpuss” the Schoolgirl
28. “Don’t Forget That Name and Be Very Wary!”
29. The Escapist: Kamo ’s Leap and the Last Bank Robbery
30. Travels with the Mysterious Valentina
31. Vienna, 1913: The Wonderful Georgian, the Austrian Artist and the Old Emperor
32. The Secret Policeman ’s Ball: Betrayal in Drag
PART FOUR
33. “Darling, I’m in Desperate Straits”
34. 1914: Arctic Sex Comedy
35. The Hunter
36. The Robinson Crusoe of Siberia
37. Stalin ’s Reindeer-Propelled Sleigh and a Siberian Son
PART FIVE
To Raphael Eristavi
38. 1917 Spring: Floundering Leader
39. 1917 Summer: Sailors on the Streets
40. 1917 Autumn: Soso and Nadya
41. 1917 Winter: The Countdown
42. Glorious October 1917: The Bungled Uprising
43. Power: Stalin Out of the Shadows
EPILOGUE An Old Tyrant —in Remembrance of Things Past
Old Ninika
Stalin ’s Names, Nicknames, Bylines and Aliases
Acknowledgements
Source Notes
A NOTE ON SOURCES
Select Bibliography
Illustrations
1878 –1904
1910 –1917
ALSO BY SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
Copyright
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