Young Stalin
Winner of the Costa Book Award 2007, Biography Award and Bruno-Kreisky-Preis für das politische Buch 2007
(Sprache: Englisch)
Vital prequel to the internationally bestselling biography STALIN: COURT OF THE RED TSAR
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Vital prequel to the internationally bestselling biography STALIN: COURT OF THE RED TSAR
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Winner of the Costa Biography AwardWhat makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start?
Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet, prolific lover, gangster mastermind and murderous revolutionary. Culminating in the 1917 revolution, Simon Sebag Montefiore's bestselling biography radically alters our understanding of the gifted politician and fanatical Marxist who shaped the Soviet empire in his own brutal image. This is the story of how Stalin became Stalin.
Autoren-Porträt von Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the internationally bestselling author of a number of prize-winning books that have been published in forty-eight languages. CATHERINE THE GREAT & POTEMKIN was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR won the BBA History Book of the Year Prize; YOUNG STALIN won the Costa Biography Award, the LA Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique; JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY won the JBC Book of the Year Prize and the Wenjin Book Prize in China; THE ROMANOVS: 1613-1918 won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize. He is the author of the Moscow Trilogy of novels: SASHENKA, RED SKY AT NOON and ONE NIGHT IN WINTER, which won the Political Fiction Book of the Year Award. He is also the author of WRITTEN IN HISTORY: LETTERS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD and the forthcoming VOICES OF HISTORY: SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- 2008, 480 Seiten, 4 Abbildungen, Maße: 13 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: PHOENIX
- ISBN-10: 0753823799
- ISBN-13: 9780753823798
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.04.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Young Stalin “
'this terrific and terrifying biography of the years to 1917.' THE INDEPENDENT It shares with its predecessor (STALIN THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR) the virtues of fine prose, empathy with a rich range of characters and narrative of great ability. Ross Leckie, THE TIMES brilliantly readable history of Stalin'..Sebag Montefiore's re-creation of the world in which his subject's picaresque career unfolded is wonderfully detailed and convincing, and the portrait he paints of an egotistical monster in the making is unforgettable. Pick of the Week in THE SUNDAY TIMES this lively and accomplished account of Stalin's "gangsterish", pre-revolutionary youth, which draws on material from newly opened archives. THE GUARDIAN bring[ing] to life the unnerving 'young man with the burning eyes' THE OBSERVER This colourful account'is a gripping read as well as faultlessly scholarly THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH this zippy prequel EVENING STANDARD gripping account". An excellent companion to Montefiore's previous bestseller BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE a thrilling portrait of Lenin's chief gangster and successor. DAILY EXPRESS
Pressezitat
Simon Sebag Montefiore's thrilling portrait of Stalin's youth ... A remarkable book ... Montefiore gives a brilliant account of the 1907 Tiflis heist ... the resulting scenes of mayhem were worthy of the De Niro and Pacino film HEAT Michael Burleigh Sunday Telegraph
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