by Simon Sebag Montefiore · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · tapa dura · ISBN 9780297850687
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«Young Stalin» is Simon Sebag Montefiore's biography published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in hardback (397 pages, in English).
It narrates the youth of Joseph Stalin (1878-1917): son of a shoemaker in Georgia, seminarian, romantic poet, fanatical revolutionary and organiser of robberies and extortions. With archives from Moscow to Georgia, Montefiore explains how that charismatic and dangerous young man impressed Lenin and would end up moulding the USSR in his image.
It is the prequel and companion work to «Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar». In 2007 it won the Costa Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was nominated for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Aimed at readers of historical biography and the history of pre-revolutionary Russia, with particular interest in the figure of Stalin.
Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore is a British historian, television presenter and author of history books and novels, including Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003), Jerusalem: The Biography (2011), The Romanovs 1613–1918 (2016), and The World: A Family History of Humanity (2022).
