Episode 105 - The Cobbler’s Kid

The biography episodes return as today I cover the early life of Joseph Stalin. Born into a conquest of the Russian Empire, young Stalin was not the most likely candidate to become a world leader. But the crucible of living under the Tsarist boot and his own violent homelife shaped him into the revolutionary that he would become. 

 

Bibliography for this episode: 

 

1. Montefiore, Simon Sebag Young Stalin Vintage Books 2007
2. Kotkin, Stephen Stalin: Paradoxes of Power 1878-1928 Penguin Books 2015

 

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