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Stalin's tumultuous youth - a remarkable force to be reckoned with Read a Biography of Stalin⑹.
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From "Reading the Biography of Stalin⑹," Sa.Imon Seberg MontefioriworkStalin, the Red Czar and His Courtiers.It is a sequel toStalin, Youth and Revolution.This is a sequel, but chronologically speaking, it comes before the previous one. This one is a sequel, but chronologically speaking, it comes before the previous one. It is a Star Wars style.
So let's get started.
Young Stalin lifting the veil
'We are all the same when we are young,' Stalin said. 'So why should I write ...... about Stalin when he was young?' But he was wrong - for at all times Stalin was not the same as everyone else, but an order of magnitude out of his league.
His youth was tumultuous and unprecedented. In his old age, when he reflected on the many secrets of his youth, he seemed to have changed his mind. There is no secret that won't come to light later," Stalin mused.
Stalin's life before his appearance in the new Soviet government as one of Lenin's top lieutenants was shrouded in a veil of secrecy. For the author, a historian who seeks to remove it, his words about secrets were right - many of the secrets can now finally be brought to light.
Research on the young Stalin is scanty (compared to the many studies on Hitler as a young man). However, this is because the material appears to be extremely scarce.
But in fact, that is not the case. A large amount of new and graphic material from his childhood and his career as a revolutionary, gangster, poet, theology student, husband, and womanizer who abandoned women and bastards wherever he went, lurks in newly opened archives around the country, most notably in Georgia, a country that has often been neglected.
Hakusuisha, Simon Seberg Montefiori,Matsumoto Yukishige translation, Stalin: Youth and the Age of Revolution, p. 15.
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Previous ArticleMontefiori, "Stalin: The Age of Youth and Revolution" - An amazing biography that shows what a monster Stalin was!As we discussed in the previous section, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, an unexpected discovery was made in Georgia, a place far from Moscow. The discovery of documents from Stalin's youth, which had been thought to have been erased, was made. This book is based on these discoveries.
Stalin in his youth, a remarkable force to be reckoned with
Stalin's youth may have been an enigma. But it was as extraordinary, or even more tumultuous, as the youth of Lenin or Trotsky, and it prepared him for many triumphs and tragedies in his rise to supreme power (and left him simultaneously damaged). It prepared him for many triumphs and tragedies, and for the rise to supreme power (and left damage in its wake).
Stalin's pre-revolutionary work and crimes were far greater than was known. For the first time, historical documents can attest to his role in bank robbery, racketeering, extortion, arson, piracy, and murder (political gang activity).
It was these actions that impressed Lenin, and Stalin had planted some very useful skills in the Soviet political jungle.
But it can also show that he was much more than just the godfather of gangs.
He was a political organizer, a man of action, and a master infiltrator of the security apparatus on the imperial side. In contrast to Zinoviev, Khamenev, or Bukharin, whose reputation as a great statesman ironically rested on his own downfall in the Great Terror, Stalin was not afraid to take personal risks.
But he also impressed Lenin because he was an independent, thoughtful politician, energetic editor, and journalist who was never afraid to confront and disagree with the elder Lenin.
The source of Stalin's success, at least in part, was the singular combination of education (in the seminaries) and violent action in the streets - he was that rare combination, an "intellectual" and a hit man all in one. It is no wonder, then, that in 1917 Lenin turned to Stalin as his ideal lieutenant for that violent, trapped revolution.
Hakusuisha, Simon Seberg Montefiori,Matsumoto Yukishige translation, Stalin: Youth and the Age of Revolution, p. 16.
Stalin was overwhelmingly powerful even as a young man. He was not a well-bred elite politician, but the head of a well-known underground gang. His strength to survive in this underworld was a major factor in Lenin's confidence in him during the chaotic period of the Russian Revolution.
The author's position in this book - how he perceives Stalin
This book is the result of almost a decade of research on Stalin conducted in twenty-three cities in nine countries. The research was conducted primarily in the newly opened archives in Moscow, Tbilisi, and Batumi, as well as in St. Petersburg, Baku, Vologda, Siberia, Berlin, Stockholm, London, Paris, Tampere, Helsinki, Cracow, Vienna, and Stanford (California, USA). The first two were held in
This book is written to be read on this basis alone. It is a study of Stalin's life before he came to power and before he entered the government in October 1917.
In contrast, my previous book, Stalin: The Red Czar and His Courtiers, covers Stalin in power until his death in March 1953.
Both books are in-depth biographies of the man and his politics, but also of his circumstances. Together, these two books show the development and maturity of this ultimate statesman, and hopefully provide a guide to one of the most esoteric and intriguing of the 20th century's giants.
What lack of compassion in Stalin's upbringing allowed him to kill so easily, but equally what qualities enabled him to acquire such superb preparation for political life?
Was the shoemaker's son of 1878, the idealistic theology student of 1898, the robber of 1907, and the forgotten Siberian hunter of 1914 really destined to become the fanatical Marxist mass murderer of the 1930s or the conqueror of Berlin in 1945?
Hakusuisha, Simon Seberg Montefiori,Matsumoto Yukishige translation, Stalin: Youth and the Age of Revolution, p. 16-17
This shows how much time and effort the authors put into their research.
And, "What lack of compassion in Stalin's upbringing allowed him to kill so easily, but equally what qualities enabled him to acquire such brilliant preparation for political life?" This is the question that runs through the book.
Author avoids easy application of Freud and other psychohistories
My approach avoids much of the psychohistory that has made our understanding of Hitler and Stalin difficult to understand and overly simplistic.
As this book shows (and I hope as the author), it was much more than a miserable childhood that shaped Stalin. It is just as much more than Marxist ideology that shaped the Soviet Union.
Hakusuisha, Simon Seberg Montefiori,Matsumoto Yukishige translation, Stalin: Youth and the Age of Revolution, p. 21-22
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Applying Freudian-like psychoanalysis in biographical and historical books, the author does not take the position that birth and childhood experiences are absolute.
Certainly birth and childhood may have an impact. But the environment in which you grew up, the people you met there, and your education can also change your life.
It may be interesting and easy to understand for the reader to create a story by building up inferences based on birth and childhood experiences. It may even be sensational. However, human life is not determined solely by birth and childhood experiences.
Attributing birth and childhood experiences to the cause of all later behavior may lose sight of a person's true nature.
This is a common occurrence not only in Stalin but also in Dostoevsky, so we should be careful.
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