Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    At 10.30 A.M. on the Sultry Morning...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:19
  • 2
    Kamo 'Was Completely Entralled' By Stalin...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:26
  • 3
    The Runaway Horse With the Carriage
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:39
  • 4
    The State Bank Was Unsure Exactly How Much...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    3:32
  • 5
    On 17 May 1872, a Handsome Young Cobbler...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:04
  • 6
    On 17 December the Baby Was Christened Josef...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:23
  • 7
    Davrichewy the Police Chief...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:45
  • 8
    When Soso Hid Beso Seached the House Screaming
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:46
  • 9
    Soso Sat the Examination and His Performance...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:58
  • 10
    Soso Now Spent His Spare Time...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:17
  • 11
    The Schoolboys Found Themselves Persecuted...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:00
  • 12
    The Injuries Were So Grave...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    3:14
  • 13
    For Over a Year, It Had Been One Crisis...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:54
  • 14
    The Boy From Gori, Accustomed to the Freedom...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    6:06
  • 15
    Morning - The Rose's Bud Had Blossomed Out...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:53
  • 16
    Hugo Was Not the Only Writer...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:58
  • CD 2
  • 1
    His Mentor Introduced His Younger Friend...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    3:45
  • 2
    When It Was Time for the Holidays...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:50
  • 3
    Stalin Did Not Qualify as a Priest...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:05
  • 4
    Stalin Had No Money, but His Better-Off Friends...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:43
  • 5
    Stalin Already Had His Own Little Court...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:28
  • 6
    The Governor-General of the Caucasus...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:51
  • 7
    At Its Elegant Headquarters in Petersburg...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    6:09
  • 8
    Comrade Soso Hit the Ground Running...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    6:41
  • 9
    General Smagin, Governor of Kutaisi Province...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:54
  • 10
    The Prosecutor in Tiflis Ruled...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:01
  • 11
    The Further From Civilization They Travelled...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:25
  • 12
    The Behaviour of Exiles Was Governed...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    6:37
  • 13
    Georgia Was Seething.
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:47
  • 14
    When He Was Not With the Alliluyevs...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:49
  • 15
    On New Year's Eve 1904, Soso Ordered a Small Gang...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:21
  • CD 3
  • 1
    Afterwards Soso Hurried Back to Tiflis...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    7:39
  • 2
    On 5th March 1905...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:10
  • 3
    One Day a Young Priest...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:09
  • 4
    Just at That Time of World-Shattering Events...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:51
  • 5
    'One of His First Coups...'
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    3:56
  • 6
    Unimpressive in Person...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:57
  • 7
    Back in Tiflis, Under the Whip...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:41
  • 8
    Yet Soso's Heists Were a Means to an End...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:37
  • 9
    'Soso and Kato Declared Their Emotions...'
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    6:42
  • 10
    Stalin Now Had an Idea...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:29
  • 11
    On 10th May 1907, After a Tedious Journey...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:01
  • 12
    The Entire Party Was Shrinking...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:28
  • 13
    After Sessions, Lenin Chatted to Delegates...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:39
  • 14
    Early on 13 June, Kamo Informed Stalin...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:37
  • 15
    The Outraged Mensheviks Commissioned...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    3:32
  • 16
    Stalin Moved His Little Family...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:19
  • CD 4
  • 1
    'It Was Too Hot in Baku, for Kato.'
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:22
  • 2
    Soso Threw Himself Into His Work Again...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    6:27
  • 3
    The Secret Police Had Lost Stalin...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:40
  • 4
    In June, the Local Police Recorded...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    3:49
  • 5
    The Milkman Tried to Reinvigorate...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    7:21
  • 6
    Yet the Case Against Stalin Is Actually...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:10
  • 7
    'in View of My Diagnosed Pulmonary...'
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:47
  • 8
    The Escape Funds - 70 Roubles...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:15
  • 9
    Stalin Seemed to Be Indulging...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:31
  • 10
    On Christmas Day, Stalin Was Back...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:41
  • 11
    'We Need to Send "Ivanovich" to Petersburg...'
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:15
  • 12
    On 18 July 1912, Stalin Arrived...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    6:05
  • 13
    Lenin Adored Cracow...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:30
  • 14
    'Illich Was Very Nervous About Pravda,'...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:20
  • 15
    'Those Few Weeks That Comrade Stalin Spent...'
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:28
  • CD 5
  • 1
    'It's a Total Bacchanalia of Arrests...'
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:07
  • 2
    The Steamer That Slowly Conveyed Stalin...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:28
  • 3
    He Was Sending Out Letters...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:15
  • 4
    The Touchy, Vindictive Stalin Brooded...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:57
  • 5
    At Night, Lidia Would Creep Into His Room.
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:07
  • 6
    He Started to Catch Huge Sturgeon.
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:36
  • 7
    Lenin Remembered the Exile.
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:54
  • 8
    In October 1916, Stalin, a Fanatical Marxist...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:08
  • 9
    'Soft, Fluffy Snow Was Falling,'...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:40
  • 10
    Stalin Staked His Claim to Leadership...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    6:00
  • 11
    Lenin's Tour De Force Won Over Stalin...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:23
  • 12
    1917 Was a Game of Two Steps Forward...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:54
  • 13
    Stalin Uprooted Lenin Five Times...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    4:47
  • 14
    The Bolsheviks Were Still at a Low Ebb...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    5:25
  • 15
    Stalin's Short Reign as Bolshevik Leader...
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    6:08

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