A review by adam_mcphee
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

5.0

Wow what a cool guy. Real Robin Hood bank robber, taking from the rich and giving to the central committee, always one step ahead of the tsar and his okhrana henchmen. Lot of affairs with bolshevik babes and I guess he ran some kind of underground journal? Badass. Also lots of cool stuff about going into exile and being pulled around on reindeer sleighs and escaping exile. And some good clowning on that nerd Trotsky.

Not going to bother reading the sequel about his life after 1917. Assume he either continues being a very cool guy or mellows out a bit.