Young Stalin by Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965- instant download

Young Stalin by Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965- instant download

Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-438) and index, 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 peasant -- 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, The shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar--the man who, along with…