Young Stalin

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Biography: historical, political & military, Prose: non-fiction, General & world history

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- Paperback Sep 29, 2020 | 9781474614825 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
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Phoenix
- Paperback Sep 29, 2020 | 9781474614825 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
- Paperback May 1, 2008 | 9780753823798 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 27, 2010 | 9780297863847 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 3, 2007 | 9780752888927 | RRP $30.99 Buy Now
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Phoenix
- Paperback Sep 29, 2020 | 9781474614825 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
- Paperback May 1, 2008 | 9780753823798 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 27, 2010 | 9780297863847 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 3, 2007 | 9780752888927 | RRP $30.99 Buy Now
Imprint

W&N
- Paperback Sep 29, 2020 | 9781474614825 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
- Paperback May 1, 2008 | 9780753823798 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 27, 2010 | 9780297863847 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 3, 2007 | 9780752888927 | RRP $30.99 Buy Now

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

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.

Praise for Young Stalin

Simon Sebag Montefiore's thrilling portrait of Stalin's youth ... A remarkable book ... Montefiore gives a brilliant account of the 1907 Tiflis heist ... the resulting scenes of mayhem were worthy of the De Niro and Pacino film HEAT - Sunday Telegraph
Should the life of a black-hearted ogre, a mass murderer ... be quite so entertaining? The story Montefiore has told requires the psychological penetration and social omniscience of a great novelist. Dickens once or twice peeps over the biographer's shoulder ... A racy, vivid biopic - Observer
This picture of Stalin as a poet is one of the revelations of Simon Sebag Montefiore's macabrely fascinating YOUNG STALIN ... Stalin's life [is] worthy of Dumas ... Brilliantly drawn - Mail on Sunday
Magnificent ... YOUNG STALIN is a masterpiece of detail. 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 book moves with pace and authority - The Times

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Sebag Montefiore is the internationally bestselling author of a number of prize-winning books that have been published in forty-eight languages. CATHERINE THE GREAT & POTEMKIN was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR won the BBA History Book of the Year Prize; YOUNG STALIN won the Costa Biography Award, the LA Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique; JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY won the JBC Book of the Year Prize and the Wenjin Book Prize in China; THE ROMANOVS: 1613-1918 won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize. He is the author of the Moscow Trilogy of novels: SASHENKA, RED SKY AT NOON and ONE NIGHT IN WINTER, which won the Political Fiction Book of the Year Award. He is also the author of WRITTEN IN HISTORY: LETTERS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD and the forthcoming VOICES OF HISTORY: SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD.