![]() ![]() 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. The paranoid criminal underworld was Stalin's natural habitat, and murderous banditry and political gangsterism, combined with pitiless ideology, enabled Stalin to dominate the Kremlin-and create the USSR in his flawed image.-From publisher description A mastermind of bank robbery, protection rackets, arson, piracy and murder, he was equal parts terrorist, intellectual and brigand. Admired as a romantic poet and trained as a priest, he found his true mission as a fanatical revolutionary. ![]() ![]() The shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar-the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil: a merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic world statesman who helped create and industrialize the USSR, outplayed Churchill and Roosevelt, and defeated Hitler? Historian Montefiore tells the story of a charismatic, turbulent boy born into poverty, of doubtful parentage, scarred by his upbringing but possessed of unusual talents. ![]()
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