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marieintheraw's review
3.0
one star off for being a bit dry. but i was fascinated by how much they believe being beaten as a child influenced his adult behaviors.
chadwika's review
3.0
My biggest issue with the book is the author's way of speaking about women. At one point Stalin has a sexual relationship with a 13 year old and the author explicitly blames the child for seducing Stalin because in her interview a decade later she didn't "sound like a shrinking violet" lmao
tomstbr's review against another edition
4.0
A short history of a young man. I think it's quite a brilliant biography, the horrors that Stalin is well known for little more than a concluding footnote. The author explores the seminal years of Soso, and harrowing they are indeed. An abusive upbringing, years in isolation; what created The Red Tsar is hinted at throughout. Needless to say, all Great Men of History have auspicious beginnings (and all appear to be very well read).
leanne_83's review
5.0
This is an amazing biography on the man that would one day become a monster named Stalin.
We see an intelligent child, become an adolescent rebel, and a poet, gangster and revolutionary in his adult years. It really is facinating stuff, I couldn't put the book down.
We see an intelligent child, become an adolescent rebel, and a poet, gangster and revolutionary in his adult years. It really is facinating stuff, I couldn't put the book down.
donnaadouglas's review against another edition
4.0
Following the early life of Stalin, up to the October Revolution, this book is both well-researched and well-written, providing an insight into the journey of a young boy on the path to becoming one of histories most notorious dictators. Many of the sources which created this book would have been banned from being recorded during Stalin's rule.
stevenyenzer's review
3.0
Coming into this with little knowledge of Stalin's biography, I found it interesting but ultimately kind of "meh." It seems like Montefiore uncovered some previously unknown elements of Stalin's history, but it all felt a little inside baseball.
susani_'s review
4.0
Everyone has heard of Stalin. The Russian dictator, with the big moustache who was responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people. The man who took over the Russia Soviet Union from Lenin and lead Russia through World War Two but at the casualty rate of 27 million Russian people; men, women and children.
[b:Young Stalin|826564|Young Stalin|Simon Sebag Montefiore|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1356455250s/826564.jpg|994440] by [a:Simon Sebag Montefiore|371093|Simon Sebag Montefiore|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1342716473p2/371093.jpg] is a book about Stalin before he became Stalin. This book is based on ten years of research on his younger years, his brutal household (alcoholic father and strict mother), his schooling years and then his young adult years. Stalin was quite the man-whore during his younger years but this book describes his years as a street tudent priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician to a dictator.
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4.5 stars
[b:Young Stalin|826564|Young Stalin|Simon Sebag Montefiore|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1356455250s/826564.jpg|994440] by [a:Simon Sebag Montefiore|371093|Simon Sebag Montefiore|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1342716473p2/371093.jpg] is a book about Stalin before he became Stalin. This book is based on ten years of research on his younger years, his brutal household (alcoholic father and strict mother), his schooling years and then his young adult years. Stalin was quite the man-whore during his younger years but this book describes his years as a street tudent priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician to a dictator.
I cannot wait to start reading [b:Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar|282108|Stalin The Court of the Red Tsar|Simon Sebag Montefiore|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320529351s/282108.jpg|2910172]
4.5 stars
aproxyname's review
4.0
'Young Stalin' is one of the best biographies I have ever read. Montefiore is a master of taking truth and spinning entertainment from it. I learned so much while still keeping me hooked.
gjermis's review against another edition
5.0
Skummelt detaljert og grundig bok, skrevet på en spennende og engasjerende måte.
Veldig interessant om du vil vite mye mer enn du trenger om Stalin!
Veldig interessant om du vil vite mye mer enn du trenger om Stalin!