Young Stalin

First edition, first printing. 398pp plus several sections of unpaginated plate illustrations. In red cloth boards (a little rounded at spine tips). There's a small mark on the text block fore edge. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (lightly bumped at edges, tiny nick on upper edge). Large 8vo. Based on extensive fresh research and newly released archives in Moscow and Tbilisi, Montefiore draws a picture of how Stalin became Stalin - a companion and prequel to his prize-winning Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar - and chronicles the Revolution, a pre-history of the Soviet Union. An intimate biography.