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Young Stalin (Record no. 13961)

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015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
National bibliography number GBA704236
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780297850687 (hbk.) :
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 947.084
024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 4219.103780
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Montefiore, Sebag,
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Young Stalin
Statement of responsibility, etc Simon Sebag Montefiore.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2007.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxvi, 397 p., [32] p. of plates :
Other physical details ill., maps, ports. ;
Dimensions 25 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "Stalin, like Hitler, remains the very personification of evil but also one of the creators of today's world. Simon Sebag Montefiore unveils the shadowy, adventurous journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar." "Born in poverty, scarred by his upbringing, exceptional in his studies, this charismatic but dangerous boy was hailed as a romantic poet and trained as a priest but found his mission as fanatical revolutionary. He became the mastermind of bank-robberies, protection-rackets, arson, piracy and murder yet he was, uniquely, part-intellectual, part-brigand. Surprisingly, he is also revealed as a scandalously prolific lover, leaving a trail of mistresses (varying from schoolgirls to noblewomen) and illegitimate children." "Here is the arch-conspirator and escape-artist whose brutal ingenuity so impressed Lenin that he made Stalin (with Trotsky) his top henchman. The paranoid underworld of Joseph Conrad-style terrorism was Stalin's natural habitat. Montefiore shows how murderous Caucasian banditry and political gangsterism, combined with pitiless ideology, qualified Stalin to dominate the Kremlin - and create the USSR in his flawed image." "Based on massive research and new evidence in archives from Moscow to Georgia, Young Stalin, companion and prequel to Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, is a chronicle of the Revolution, a pre-history of the USSR - and an intimate biography: this is how Stalin became Stalin."--BOOK JACKET.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Heads of state
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Renewals Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date checked out Cost, replacement price Price effective from Koha item type Public note
      Not For Loan Non Fiction Waimate Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage 13/07/2007 CV C&V 25.00 3 947.084 A00455348 27/07/2022 15/07/2022 75.00   Non-Fiction Not for loan
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