Sebag Montefiore has unearthed documents long lost in Georgian archives, found the descendants of Soso's friends and produced a vivid psychological portrait of this dangerous, alluring, enigmatic man. This picture of Stalin as a poet is one of the revelations of Simon Sebag Montefiore's macabrely fascinating YOUNG STALIN. Dickens once or twice peeps over the biographer's shoulder. be quite so entertaining? The story Montefiore has told requires the psychological penetration and social omniscience of a great novelist. On practically every page of YOUNG STALIN, there is a reason to smile with. Should the life of a black-hearted ogre, a mass murderer. Culminating in the 1917 revolution, Simon Sebag Montefiores bestselling. the resulting scenes of mayhem were worthy of the De Niro and Pacino film HEAT - Sunday Telegraph Montefiore gives a brilliant account of the 1907 Tiflis heist. Young Stalin reveals not only Stalins life prior to the Revolution but. Simon Sebag Montefiore's thrilling portrait of Stalin's youth. Historian Montefiore tells the story of a charismatic, turbulent boy born into.
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