Young Stalin

Winner of the Costa Biography Award

What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin''s bandit? Was he to blame for his wife''s death? When did the killing start?

Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler''s son became a student priest, romantic poet, prolific lover, gangster mastermind and murderous revolutionary. Culminating in the 1917 revolu...