Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Based on the acclaimed bestseller by Simon Sebag Montefiore, “Young Stalin” charts the early days of the Soviet strongman when he ...

“Young Stalin,” Simon Sebag Montefiore’s biography chronicling the life of Joseph Stalin as a bank-robbing gangster in pre-revolutionary Russia, is being adapted for film. The feature is being ...

Russian historian and author Montefiore presents an exciting, exemplary biography of the nondescript peasant boy who would become the most ruthless leader in Soviet history, a prequel of sorts to his ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar," published in America by Knopf last month and recently named History Book of the Year in the British Book Awards. Almost ...

Cosmo Jarvis, star of FX’s smash hit series “Shōgun,” will star as future Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in “Young Stalin.” Georgian-French helmer Géla Babluani (“13 Tzameti,” “Money”) has signed on to ...