The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life

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Psychology Press, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 466 pages
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.
 

Contents

THE ROOTS OF EVIL
1
SAMEDOV DISEASE
16
MEETING THE MOUNTAIN EAGLE
30
THE MURDER OF VISSARION
38
THE BETRAYAL OF THE AVLABAR PRESS
47
THE HOTEL BRISTOL
51
THE GREAT TIFLIS BANK ROBBERY
58
COLONEL EREMIN
66
WHY DID YOU KILL SUCH A NICE MAN?
233
THE STALIN INSTITUTE
240
OLD BEAR WITH A RING IN HIS NOSE
247
25 THEYLL SWALLOW IT
253
THE FATAL FIND IN MENZHINSKYS OFFICE
262
27 THE TUKHACHEVSKY DOSSIER
266
THE FORGERY THAT TELLS THE TRUTH
280
29 THE STAGED TRIFLE
298

KOBAAND MALINOVSKY
77
THE GREAT STATE SCANDAL
94
IOSIF DZHU ? WEVE FORGOTTEN VERY IMPORTANT
111
12 VASILY SO FAR UNIDENTIFIED
121
THE GRAY BLUR
138
RED TERROR
151
THE OLD MAN WANTS POISON
162
JEWISH ORIGIN
181
STALINS OKHRANA FILE FOUND IN 1926
186
CASTRATED FORCES
195
BLUMKINS FAILED MISSION
204
THE KUTEPOV DOCUMENTS
212
I KNOW WHAT KIND OF REVOLUTIONARY YOU ARE
224
THE MYSTERIOUS WORKER VASILY
311
INHALING POISON GAS
315
32 THE MURDER OF TROTSKY
323
IVAN SUSANIN AND THE EASTERN QUESTION
330
THE WAR AND THE OCTOBER l941 MASSACRE
346
GENERALISSIMO WITH A CRIPPLED ARM
357
MURDERERS IN WHITE GOWNS
372
THE MURDER OF DR MOREAU
396
YOU CANT WHITEWASH A BLACK DOG
406
AFTERWORD
420
Select Bibliography
425
Index
443
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