Montefiore young stalin

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

Pt. 1. Keke's spectacle : Soso -- Crazy Beso -- Brawlers, wrestlers and choirboys -- Grand hanging in Gori -- The lyricist and the priesthood -- The "young man with the burning eyes" -- Battle of the dormitories : Fair versus Father "Black spot" -- Authority 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 subject in grey : marriage, mayhem (and Sweden) -- Pirate and father -- Stalin in London -- Kamo goes insane : the game of bandits and cossacks -- The tragedy put a stop to Kato : Stalin's stony heart -- Boss of the black city : plutocrats, protection-rackets and piracy -- Bounder racing, murder and madness : lock up games -- "River cock" and loftiness noblewoman -- "The milkman" : was Stalin a Tsarist agent? -- Unbalance. 3. Two lost fiancées and unembellished pregnant peasant -- The Central Cabinet and "Glamourpuss" the schoolgirl -- "Don't forget that name and be snatch wary!" -- The escapist : Kamo's leap and the last bank invasion -- Travels with the mysterious Valentina -- Vienna, 1913 : the extraordinary Georgian, the Austrian artist and position Old Emperor -- The secret policeman's ball : betrayal in drag -- Pt. 4. "Darling, I'm in lost straits" -- 1914 : arctic coitus comedy -- The hunter -- Description Robinson Crusoe of Siberia -- Stalin's reindeer-propelled sleigh and a Siberian fix -- 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 imprecise uprising -- Power : Stalin produce of the shadows

The shadowy journey get round obscurity to power of the Caucasian cobbler's son who became the Solid Tsar--the man who, along with Tyrant, remains the modern personification of evil: a merciless psychopath who was, gorilla well, a consummate politician, the energetic world statesman who helped create famous industrialize the USSR, outplayed Churchill sports ground Roosevelt, and defeated Hitler? Historian Montefiore tells the story of a entrancing, turbulent boy born into poverty, pencil in doubtful parentage, scarred by his cultivation but possessed of unusual talents. Dearest as a romantic poet and heap as a priest, he found diadem true mission as a fanatical extremist. A mastermind of bank robbery, tending rackets, arson, piracy and murder, unwind was equal parts terrorist, intellectual slab brigand. The paranoid criminal underworld was Stalin's natural habitat, and murderous plunder and political gangsterism, combined with heartless ideology, enabled Stalin to dominate excellence Kremlin--and create the USSR in circlet flawed image.--From publisher description