Young Stalin
$26.90
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2021
Summary
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 o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474614825 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474614825 |
| Author: | Simon Sebag Montefiore |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 34mm |
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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 - ObserverThis 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 SundayMagnificent … 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 TimesAbout The Author
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore is an internationally bestselling author and historian whose prize-winning books have been published in forty-eight languages. Catherine the Great and Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Prize. Young Stalin won the Costa Biography Award (UK), the LA Times Book Prize for Biography (USA), the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique (France), and the Kreisky Prize (Austria). Jerusalem: The Biography - A History of the Middle East was a number one Sunday Times (UK) bestseller, a global bestseller and won The Book of the Year Prize from the Jewish Book Council (US) and the Wenjin Book Prize of the National Library of China (People’s Republic of China). The Romanovs: 1613-1918 won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize (Italy); and The World: A Family History, a NYTimes and Sunday Times bestseller, was named The Times History Book of the Year. In 2025, he was awarded the Blue Metropolis Words to Change Prize (Canada) for “his body of work in humanity and history.’ He is also the author of the Moscow Trilogy of novels: Sashenka, Red Sky at Noon and One Night in Winter, which won the Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year Prize. He read history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University where he received his PhD. He is the presenter of five history series for the BBC and many of his books are being developed for movies or drama series.
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