My Affair with Stalin |
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 | Montefiore, a well-regarded biographer of Stalin (Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar) and Potemkin, here retools his knowledge of Stalin to recreate the history of the evil dictator's rise and fall via the fortunes and misfortunes of a young English boy over the course of a school year. William is a much picked-upon nerd/weakling at an undistinguished English boarding school in the early 1970s. In the life of Stalin he discovers the means to usurp the existing power dynamics of his school and reduce the rugby/cricket-playing elite to nonentities. Naturally, various other of the school outcasts are enlisted in the revolution to fill historical roles: a huge Nigerian boy, a relation of the Shah of Iran, and various weedy kids all join the Party, and townie toughs are even brought in as mercenary shock troops.As William unleashes his reign of terror, each plot development runs parallel to his hero Stalin's career. William's speech is sprinkled throughout with Stalinist quotes, and the ... read more.
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Published 26 June 1998.
Published by Phoenix.
rrp £6.99.
240 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0753801582
ISBN-13: 9780753801581 | |
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