Young Stalin

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2007 by Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Originally published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, the Orion Publishing Group Ltd., London.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Montefiore, Sebag, [date]

Young Stalin / Simon Sebag Montefiore.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-49892-2

1. Stalin, Joseph, 1879–1953. 2. Heads of state—

Soviet Union—Biography. I. Title.

DK268.S8M574 2007

947.084′2092—DC22

[B] 2007029220

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