SOCIAL SCIENCES

Young Stalin

by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Vintage. 2008. 528p. illus. maps. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781400096138. pap. $19; ebk. ISBN 9780307498922.

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In this companion volume to Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (above), which can also be read on its own, Montefiore examines important and surprising milestones in Stalin's childhood and his prolonged youth as well as his prerevolutionary and early postrevolution days.

Reviewed by Laurie Unger Skinner , Jan 01, 2017

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