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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Potemkin: Catherine the Greats Imperial Partner
To my darling son,
Sasha
43.
18781904
Mugshot of Stalin, 19121
School photo, late 1880s2
Stalins birthplace in Gori1
Official photo of Beso, Stalins father3
Stalins mother, Keke1
Koba Egnatashvili18
Sasha Egnatashvili18
Damian Davrichewy4
Stalin in 1893, aged sixteen5
Stalin in 18961
Seminary photo, late 1890s1
Fire at an oil refinery6
Rothschild oil refinery, Batumi6
Hashimi Smirba6
Group photo in Kutaisi Prison, 19036
Novaya Uda6
Kutaisi Prison6
Stalins cell6
Natasha Kirtava6
Olga Alliluyeva3
Olga and her children3
19051910
Kamo3
Stalins network of street children, 19057
Okhrana agents pose in their street costumes3
Stalin, ca. 190565
Trotsky5
Lenin, ca. 19055
Kato Svanidze1
Kato Svanidze, headshot, from gravestone, Tbilisi3
Daily Mirror extract, 16 May 19078
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party agreement3
Daily Mirror extract, 27 June 19078
Daily Mirror extract, 15 May 19078
Mugshot of Kamo from the police files, ca. 19081
Sergo Ordzhonikidze1
Baku oil fountain5
Nagayevs Palace in Baku9
Burning oil wells, Baku, 14 September 190310
Murtuza Mukhtarov and his wife, Liza11
Stalin with Katos family beside her dead body, 19071
Alvasi Talakvadze6
Ludmilla Stal11
Stalin1
Stalin when he was arrested in 19101
19101917
Stalin with Spandarian in 19151
Backs of postcards12
Front of postcard1
Maria Kuzakova with her son Constantine and his baby3
Mugshot of Stalin when he was arrested in 19111
Stalins apartment block in Vienna13
Lenins flat in Cracow1
Roman Malinovsky3
Stalin in 19131
Tatiana Slavatinskaya16
Kureika, photographed in the 1930s1
Ostyak tribesman with reindeer on the Arctic Circle14
Alexander Davidov17
Lidia Pereprygina17
Bolshevik exiles photographed at Monastyrskoe in the summer of 19151
Vera Shveitzer14
KGB boss Serovs memo to Khrushchev in 1956, about the investigation into Stalins affair with thirteen-year-old Lidia Pereprygina12
Taurida Palace3
Soldiers in St. Petersburg, FebruaryMarch 19173
19171918
Lenin addresses the crowds from Kseshinskayas palace in St. Petersburg, July 19173
July Days coup3
Nadya Alliluyeva1
Stalins bedroom in the Alliluyev apartment3
Lenin1
Smolny and new Soviet government, 19173
The first meeting of the new government15
Lenins orders to his guards on access to his office15
Stalin5
Alexandra Kollontai and Pavel Dybenko ca. 19175
Stalin, ca. 19175
The author and publishers offer their thanks to the following for their kind permission to reproduce images:
1. David King Collection
2. Stalin House Museum, Gori
3. Authors collection
4. Davrichewy Family Collection
5. RIA Novosti
6. Khariton Akhvlediani State Museum, Batumi
7. Georgian Filial Institute of Marxism-Leninism (GF IML)
8. Mirrorpix
9. Getty
10. Roger Viollet / Topfoto
11. Azerbaijan International Magazine
12. RGASPI
13. Lisa Train
14. Dr. Piers Vitebsky
15. Smolny Institute Museum
16. Achinsk Regional Museum (ARM)
17. The Sunday Times (London)
18. Egnatashvili Family Collection
While every effort has been made to trace copyright holders, if any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be happy to acknowledge them in future editions.
All young people are the same, said Stalin, so why write... about the young Stalin? Yet he was wrong: he was always different. His youth was dramatic, adventurous and exceptional. When in old age he reflected on the mysteries of his early years, he seemed to change his mind. There are, he mused, no secrets that wont be revealed for everyone later. For me as a historian unveiling his clandestine life up to his emergence as one of Lenins top henchmen in the new Soviet government, he was right about the secrets: many of them can now be revealed.
There are few works on early Stalin (compared to many on young Hitler), but this is because there seemed to be so little material. In fact, this is not so. A wealth of vivid new material that brings to life his childhood and his career as revolutionary, gangster, poet, trainee priest, husband and prolific lover, abandoning women and illegitimate children in his wake, lay hidden in the newly opened archives, especially those of often-neglected Georgia.
Stalins early life may have been shadowy but it was every bit as extraordinary as, and even more turbulent than, those of Lenin and Trotskyand it equipped him (and damaged him) for the triumphs, tragedies and predations of supreme power.
Stalins pre-revolutionary achievements and crimes were much greater than we knew. For the first time, we can document his role in the bank robberies, protection-rackets, extortion, arson, piracy, murderthe political gangsterismthat impressed Lenin and trained Stalin in the very skills that would prove invaluable in the political jungle of the Soviet Union. But we can also show that he was much more than a gangster godfather: he was also a political organizer, enforcer and master at infiltrating the Tsarist security services. In contrast to Zinoviev, Kamenev or Bukharin, whose reputations as great politicians are ironically founded on their destruction in the Terror, he was not afraid to take physical risks. But he also impressed Lenin as an independent and thoughtful politician, and as a vigorous editor and journalist, who was never afraid to confront and contradict the older man. Stalins success was at least partly due to his unusual combination of education (thanks to the seminary) and street violence; he was that rare combination: both intellectual and killer. No wonder in 1917 Lenin turned to Stalin as the ideal lieutenant for his violent, beleaguered Revolution.
This book is the result of almost ten years of research on Stalin in twenty-three cities and nine countries, mainly in the newly opened archives of Moscow, Tbilisi and Batumi, but also in St. Petersburg, Baku, Vologda, Siberia, Berlin, Stockholm, London, Paris, Tampere, Helsinki, Cracow, Vienna and Stanford, California.
Young Stalin is written to be read on its own. This is a study of Stalins life before power, up to his arrival in government in October 1917, whereas my last book,
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