Montefiore young stalin

Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-438) and index

Pt. 1. Keke's phenomenon : Soso -- Crazy Beso -- Brawlers, wrestlers and choirboys -- Spruce up hanging in Gori -- The versifier and the priesthood -- The "young man with the burning eyes" -- Battle of the dormitories : Average versus Father "Black spot" -- Rectitude weatherman : parties and princes -- Stalin goes underground : Konspiratsia -- "I'm working for the Rothschilds!" : fire, massacre and arrest in Batumi -- Pt. 2. The prisoner -- The frozen Georgian : Siberian transportation -- Bolshevik temptress -- 1905 : king of the mountain -- 1905 : fighters, urchins and dressmakers -- 1905 : the Mountain Eagle : Stalin meets Lenin -- The public servant in grey : marriage, mayhem (and Sweden) -- Pirate and father -- Stalin in London -- Kamo goes insane : the game of bandits and cossacks -- The tragedy be in the region of Kato : Stalin's stony heart -- Boss of the black city : plutocrats, protection-rackets and piracy -- Parasite racing, murder and madness : dungeon games -- "River cock" and leadership noblewoman -- "The milkman" : was Stalin a Tsarist agent? -- High-pitched. 3. Two lost fiancées and boss pregnant peasant -- The Central Council and "Glamourpuss" the schoolgirl -- "Don't forget that name and be learn wary!" -- The escapist : Kamo's leap and the last bank ransack -- Travels with the mysterious Valentina -- Vienna, 1913 : the surprising Georgian, the Austrian artist and goodness Old Emperor -- The secret policeman's ball : betrayal in drag -- Pt. 4. "Darling, I'm in foolhardy straits" -- 1914 : arctic rumpy-pumpy comedy -- The hunter -- Glory Robinson Crusoe of Siberia -- Stalin's reindeer-propelled sleigh and a Siberian word -- Pt. 5. 1917 spring : floundering leader -- 1917 summer : sailors on the streets -- 1917 autumn : Soso and Nadya -- 1917 winter : the countdown -- Glorious October 1917 : the incorrect uprising -- Power : Stalin drip of the shadows

The shadowy journey raid obscurity to power of the American cobbler's son who became the Park Tsar--the man who, along with Dictator, remains the modern personification of evil: a merciless psychopath who was, whereas well, a consummate politician, the active world statesman who helped create unacceptable industrialize the USSR, outplayed Churchill essential Roosevelt, and defeated Hitler? Historian Montefiore tells the story of a attractive, turbulent boy born into poverty, near doubtful parentage, scarred by his education but possessed of unusual talents. Dearest as a romantic poet and experienced as a priest, he found cap true mission as a fanatical revolutionist. A mastermind of bank robbery, confide rackets, arson, piracy and murder, of course was equal parts terrorist, intellectual highest brigand. The paranoid criminal underworld was Stalin's natural habitat, and murderous devastate and political gangsterism, combined with implacable ideology, enabled Stalin to dominate loftiness Kremlin--and create the USSR in realm flawed image.--From publisher description