Posted on 12/04/08
Before Stalin was a monster, he was ... a monster
YOUNG STALINBy Simon Sebag MontefioreMcArthur & Company,397 pages, $34.95THE WHISPERERSPrivate Life in Stalin's RussiaBy Orlando FigesMetropolitan, 740 pages, $40.50For a leader who oversaw the transformation of the Soviet Union into a superpower, who claimed and received so much credit for that success but was so profoundly responsible for many of the catastrophes that the Soviet people suffered, and for an individual who loomed so large on the world stage for decades, Joseph Stalin has generated relatively little interest among Western biographers, particularly for the pre-1917 years.
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