Michael kerrigan author biography example

‘I trust no one, not even myself.’ – Joseph Stalin

Thug, armed robber, activist, revolutionary, tyrant – we know the headlines, we know about the atrocities, but what do we really know of the man at the heart of it all? Stalin looks behind the image of the dictator and explores Ioseb Jughashvili’s Georgian childhood, his early political awakening, his criminal life, his rise within the Bolshevik party, and his times in exiles.

It examines his personal life, including his two marriages and children from other relationships, his son’s attempted suicide and his second wife