Stalin simon sebag montefiore review5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The most arresting image, for me, is opposite page 302. ![]() Indeed, the mug shot used on the book jacket has been circulated around the Internet under the words “ Young Stalin was hot,” and sparked one webpage of parody images of the young Communist that included a faux Cosmopolitan cover and an image titled “He’s fabulous…but he’s evil.” The lavish use of photos in this 2007 book adds to the perception of Stalin as someone who could fit well into a circle of friends - even the mug shots. While reading Young Stalin, I was struck by the very human and, at times, very attractive portrait that Simon Sebag Montefiore paints of Joseph Stalin.Īt various points in the narrative, Montefiore describes Stalin as someone who could be (a) gentle with children and (b) the singing-laughing life of a party and (c) irresistible to women and (d) an intrepid hunter in the winter wastes of Siberia and (e) a self-taught philosopher and (f) a vociferous reader and (g) an anthologized poet. ![]()
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