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| Named Person: | Joseph Stalin; Joseph Stalin; Joseph Stalin; Joseph Stalin |
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| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Simon Sebag Montefiore |
| ISBN: | 9781552786468 1552786463 |
| OCLC Number: | 84387355 |
| Description: | xxviii, 397 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. 1. Keke's miracle : Soso -- Crazy Beso -- Brawlers, wrestlers and choirboys -- A hanging in Gori -- The poet and the priesthood -- The "young man with the burning eyes" -- Battle of the dormitories : Soso versus Father "Black spot" -- The 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 exile -- Bolshevik temptress -- 1905 : king of the mountain -- 1905 : fighters, urchins and dressmakers -- 1905 : the Mountain Eagle : Stalin meets Lenin -- The man in grey : marriage, mayhem (and Sweden) -- Pirate and father -- Stalin in London -- Kamo goes insane : the game of bandits and cossacks -- The tragedy of Kato : Stalin's stony heart -- Boss of the black city : plutocrats, protection-rackets and piracy -- Louse racing, murder and madness : prison games -- "River cock" and the noblewoman -- "The milkman" : was Stalin a Tsarist agent? -- Pt. 3. Two lost fiancées and a pregnant pheasant -- The Central Committee and "Glamourpuss" the schoolgirl -- "Don't forget that name and be very wary!" -- The escapist : Kamo's leap and the last bank robbery -- Travels with the mysterious Valentina -- Vienna, 1913 : the wonderful Georgian, the Austrian artist and the Old Emperor -- The secret policeman's ball : betrayal in drag -- Pt. 4. "Darling, I'm in desperate straits" -- 1914 : arctic sex comedy -- The hunter -- The Robinson Crusoe of Siberia -- Stalin's reindeer-propelled sleigh and a Siberian son -- 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 bungled uprising -- Power : Stalin out of the shadows. |
| Responsibility: | Simon Sebag Montefiore. |
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