This account of Stalin's life begins with his early years, the family breakup caused by the suspicion that the boy was the result of an adulterous affair, the abuse by his father and the growth of the traumatized boy into criminal, spy, and finally one of the 20th century's political monsters.

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1. The Roots of Evil 2. "Samedov Disease" 3. Meeting the "Mountain Eagle" 4. The Murder of Vissarion 5. The Betrayal of the Avlabar Press 6. The Hotel Bristol 7. The Great Tiflis Bank Robbery 8. Colonel Eremin 9. Koba and Malinovsky 9. The "Great State Scandal" 10. "Iosif Dzhu...? We've Forgotten. Very Important!" 11. "Vasily...So Far Unidentified" 12. "The Gray Blur" 13. Red Terror 14. "The Old Man Wants Poison" 15. "Jewish Origin" 16. Stalin's Okhrana File Found in 1926 17. "Castrated Forces" 18. Blumkin's Failed Mission 19. The "Kutepov Documents" 20. "I Know What Kind of Revolutionary You Are!" 20. "Why Did You Kill Such a Nice Man?" 21. The Stalin Institute 22. "Old Bear with a Ring in his Nose" 23. "They'll Swallow It" 24. The Fatal Find in Menzhinsky's Office 25. The "Tukhachevsky Dossier" 26. The Forgery that Tells the Truth 27. The Staged "Trifle" 28. The Mysterious "Worker Vasily" 29. Inhaling "Poison Gas" 30.The Murder of Trotsky 31. "Ivan Susanin" and the "Eastern Question" 32. The War and October 1941 massacre 33. Generalissimo with a Crippled Arm 34. "Murderers in White Gowns" 35. The Murder of "Dr Moreau" 36. "You Can't Whitewash a Black Dog"

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Joe Orlik Books specialises in postwar 20th century history, poetry, art, graphic design, advertising, propaganda, art history and cultural theory with a sprinkling of science fiction, fiction mostly of an historical nature as well as more general titles. All books are from a personal library accumulated over the last 50 years.

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