![]() The red terrorists detonated a number of powerful bombs that shook the center of the town. Dozens of people, including Tsarist Cossack guards and innocent bystanders, were killed or wounded during the attack. ![]() dollars, with a buying power at the time an order of magnitude greater. The terrorists made off with a huge, incredible sum of money, approximately 300,000 rubles or over $34 million U.S. ![]() The heist, carried out on Jby a 29-year-old “Soso” (Stalin’s nickname) and his band of Georgian gangsters, was orchestrated to help finance Lenin’s revolution. Following the usual formalities, the book begins with a tantalizing “Prologue,” the audacious robbery and bloody bombing at the festive Yerevan Square in the center of the town of Tiflis (now Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia). Young Stalin by Simon Montefiore is a well-researched, well-written, absorbing, and authoritative biography of Joseph Stalin’s early years. ![]()
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