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The novel opens with Stalin infuriated-and worried-that Trotsky is writing his biography from exile in Mexico City. He believes Trotsky's book is a double threat-a character assassination and a search for past crimes. But Trotsky's account also forces Stalin to reflect on his own life. We see him as a sly and domineering schoolboy, battling a sadistic father and struggling against a mother who dreams of him entering the priesthood. From these humble but troubled beginnings grows a young man who questions everything-morality, evil, the existence of God-and who finds answers to justify dictatorship and slaughter.
This is a story of two crimes-one, the assassination of Trotsky, which Stalin slowly choreographs, and the other an unspeakable murder that Stalin struggles to hide and which Trotsky is about to discover. Stalin's relentless interior monologue-skirting around these crimes, fleshing out the details of his life-draws us into his world of perversity until we are face-to-face with the presence of evil. The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin is an awe-inspiring feat of storytelling.
About: Worried that the biography that Trotsky is writing about him in Mexico will reveal a crime from his past that could topple him from power, Stalin is forced to think back on his own memories of his life and rise to power
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