| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xxxii, 460 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-438) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 Tsaris agent? -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Subject |
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
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Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781400044658 alkaline paper |
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1400044650 alkaline paper |
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