Young Stalin

How to Nurture a Monster. Young Stalin is really good. Simon Sebag Montefiore writes is such an eloquent way, one can read his pros for hours. I picked this up as a break from reading a much longer book and I am glad I did. Young Stalin is the precursor to Court of the Red Tsar and follows the birth o......more

"He was always in the company of cutthroats, blackmailers, robbers and gunslingers..." pg 146 This was a fantastic glimpse look into Stalin's youth before his political life really took off. I enjoyed the author's writing style and enjoyed his work about Stalin's later years as the leader of the Sovi......more

. .ساختار روایی و سرگذشت هیجان‌انگیز استالین، کتابِ مانتیفوری را به یک زندگینامه خواندنی و جالب توجه مبدل کرده بود. سرگذشت زندگی پر پیچ و خمِ استالینِ کبیر، رهبر قدرتمندِ شوروی و اینکه چطور سوسوی کفاش‌زاده‌ و تهی‌دستی که در کوچه پس کوچه‌های فلاکت‌بارِ گرجستانِ آن سال‌ها رشد کرده بود و در مسیر آرزوی ما......more

Stalin was never inevitable. The brains, confidence, intellectual intensity, political talents, faith in and experience with violence, touchiness, vindictiveness, charm, sensitivity, ruthlessness, lack of empathy, the sheer weird singularity of the man, were in place – but lacking a forum. In 1917,......more