YOUNG STALIN is a remarkable adventure story about an exceptional, turbulent young man, born in exoticism, raised in the church, fancying himself a poet, then embracing revolutionary idealism and thereby finding his romantic Messianic mission in life. All the trails of Stalin the Great Dictator are founded in these times - not merely his psychology, but his hatreds, his loves, his intellectual interests, his gangsterish murderousness, his friendships, his knowledge of the world. Above all in the underground Bolshevik life are the seeds that grew into the paranoia and Terror of the Soviet Imperium. YOUNG STALIN is the product of major new research. Says the author: 'I have been amazed at the vast new materials available not only in the RGASPI archives in Moscow (Stalin's own papers amongst other things) but also in Georgia where I have found already several new memoirs and in Siberia, London, Stockholm and Vienna where I have found his old houses, new police records and more.'

西蒙·蒙蒂菲奥里（Simon Sebag Montefiore）

1965年在英国出生，知名历史学家，英国皇家文学学会研究员。他曾在剑桥大学攻读历史专业，著有多部历史类著作。其作品被翻译成50余种语言，先后斩获英国科斯塔传记奖、美国《洛杉矶时报》传记图书奖、法兰西学院大奖，以及奥地利克莱斯基政治文学奖等众多大奖。著有《耶路撒冷三千年》《青年斯大林》《大人物的世界史》等经典历史巨著。

《新闻周刊》评论西蒙能将庞大的历史书籍写成极为好看的惊悚作品；他知道怎样才能让历史变得浅显易懂；他的博学、睿智使人忍不住想向美国国务卿推荐，聘请他担任幕僚。

西蒙·蒙蒂菲奥里作品

《耶路撒冷三千年》（Jerusalem: The Biography）

《大人物的世界史》（Titans of History）

《青年斯大林》（Young Stalin）

译者介绍

徐展雄

译者、导演、编剧。译有《黑色电影》《重访希区柯克》《凶年》等多部作品。编剧作品有《功夫瑜伽》《心理罪》等。