bundy23 's review for:

Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.0

I learnt some new stuff and I didn’t get bored which is about all I really ask from non fiction. Well, maybe you could add some humour but in this case that probably would’ve been a little hard.

My only complaint would be that the author clearly didn’t like Trotsky and constantly dismissed him as a non-entity or overrated except when it helped with the narrative he was creating here, which was that Stalin was the true genius of the revolution.