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...names were not to stick very long to this newest subject of the Tsar; he was to answer to Soso, Koba, David, Nijeradze, Chijikov and Ivanovich until at length he acquired the pseudonym of Stalin, Man of Steel...
...have surprised those whose Russian reading had been confined to the idealistic utterances of such Soviet diplomats as onetime Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff, Stalin's life reveals numerous examples of cynical opportunism and unprincipled grabbing of power. Sent to a Greek Orthodox seminary at Tiflis at 13, young "Soso" Djugashvili was expelled at 18 from the school because, said his priestly teachers, of "Socialistic heresy...
...series of spectacular robberies that the "revolutionists" engineered. Once a Government-convoyed truck was bombed in the Tiflis main square, and 341,000 rubles ($170,000) in cash was taken from it. Maxim Litvinoff, incidentally, was later caught in Paris with some of this money on his person. "Soso" wandered from town to town in the Caucasus, using numerous aliases. Five times he was arrested and exiled; four times he escaped...
...opinion that slipping in the Dictator's favor is Defense Commissar Kliment ("Klim") Voroshilov. It has been noticed at Stalin's more recent public appearances that Klim pathetically works overtime striving to appear as much as possible near the Dictator and be seen in conversation with him. "Soso" (Joseph) Stalin has been notably inattentive, even at times visibly short with Klim...
...cinematic plot serves principally as a framework for descriptions of the routine of South African pioneer life: the hunts, skirmishes, prayer meetings, occasional festivals. This more or less documentary side of the book will sustain most readers' interest in a novel that would otherwise be only soso...