Day: March 16, 2026

#SouthCaucasus  #Georgia  #Stalin
x.com/pancaucasus/status/203…PAN CAUCASUS (@pancaucasus)Ronald Grigor Suny. Stalin: Passage to Revolution. – Princeton University Press, 2020.

In his monumental book, Ronald Grigor Suny sheds light on Stalin’s least-studied early years. Drawing on a wealth of new archival evidence regarding Stalin’s life in the Caucasus, the author traces the psychological metamorphosis of the young Jughashvili from his youth as a Georgian nationalist and romantic poet, through the harsh formative years, to his involvement in the violent underground movement to overthrow the Tsarist autocracy.

Stalin appears before the reader as an ambitious careerist within the Bolshevik ranks, a resourceful leader of a small terrorist cell, and a writer and thinker engaged in the most pressing debates of his time.—  https://x.com/pancaucasus/status/2033460250020311311

— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Mar 16, 2026