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This audiobook narrated by Robbie Stevens tells the spellbinding story of Stalin in his formative years
This is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one of the twentieth century's most ruthless dictators.
In this monumental book, Ronald Grigor Suny sheds light on the least understood years of Stalin's career, bringing to life the turbulent world in which he lived and the extraordinary historical events that shaped him. Suny draws on a wealth of new archival evidence from Stalin's early years in the Caucasus to chart the psychological metamorphosis of the young Stalin, taking readers from his boyhood as a Georgian nationalist and romantic poet, through his harsh years of schooling, to his commitment to violent engagement in the underground movement to topple the tsarist autocracy. Stalin emerges as an ambitious climber within the Bolshevik ranks, a resourceful leader of a small terrorist band, and a writer and thinker who was deeply engaged with some of the most incendiary debates of his time.
A landmark achievement,
Stalin paints an unforgettable portrait of a driven young man who abandoned his religious faith to become a skilled political operative and a single-minded and ruthless rebel.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, History
Length28 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byRobbie Stevens
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 6, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Anno, Note on Dating
18Chapter 16 - The Professional
2Introduction: Fortune's Knave
19Part 5, Staying the Course, Chapter 17 - The Tiflis "Ex"
3Part 1, Growing Up Georgian, Chapter 1 - The Georgian
20Chapter 18 - Journeyman for the Revolution
4Chapter 2 - The Pupil
21Chapter 19 - The Rebel Disarmed
5Chapter 3 - Koba
22Chapter 20 - Labor and Liquidators
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6Part 2, Breaking Left, Chapter 4 - Apprentice of the Revolution
23Part 6, From Outside In, Chapter 21 - The Roving Agent
7Chapter 5 - Burning Bridges
24Chapter 22 - The Man of Steel
8Chapter 6 - The Outlaw
25Chapter 23 - The Expert
9Chapter 7 - Trial by Fire
26Chapter 24 - The Exile
10Part 3, The Making of a Bolshevik, Chapter 8 - On the Margins
27Chapter 25 - Far from the Front
11Chapter 9 - Becoming Bolshevik
28Part 7, The Steep Path to Power, Chapter 26 - The Revolutionary
12Chapter 10 - Back in the Game
29Chapter 27 - Reaping the Whirlwind
13Part 4, Revolutionary Underground, Chapter 11 - Revolutionary Baptism
30Chapter 28 - The Dark Before
14Chapter 12 - The Committeeman
31Chapter 29 - On the Eve
15Chapter 13 - The Terrorist
32Conclusion: The Road Traveled
16Chapter 14 - Meeting the Mountain Eagle
33Historians Look at Stalin: A Historiographical Discussion
17Chapter 15 - Gendarme of the Revolution
34Acknowledgements, Closing Anno
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