From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
Pt. 1. Keke's miracle : Soso
Brawlers, wrestlers and choirboys
The poet and the priesthood
The "young man with the burning eyes"
Battle of the dormitories : Soso versus Father "Black Spot"
The weatherman : parties and princes
Stalin goes underground : Konspiratsia
"I'm working for the Rothschilds!" : fire, massacre and arrest in Batumi
The frozen Georgian : Siberian exile
1905 : king of the mountain
1905 : fighters, urchins and dressmakers
1905 : the Mountain Eagle : Stalin meets Lenin
The man in grey : marriage, mayhem (and Sweden)
Kamo goes insane : the game of bandits and cossacks
The tragedy of Kato : Stalin's stony heart
Boss of the black city : plutocrats, protection-rackets and piracy
Louse racing, murder and madness : prison games
"River cock" and the noblewoman
"The milkman" : was Stalin a Tsarist agent?
Pt. 3. Two lost fiancées and a pregnant peasant
The Central Committee and "Glamourpuss" the schoolgirl
"Don't forget that name and be very wary!"
The escapist : Kamo's leap and the last bank robbery
Travels with the mysterious Valentina
Vienna, 1913 : the wonderful Georgian, the Austrian artist and the Old Emperor
The secret policeman's ball : betrayal in drag
Pt. 4. "Darling, I'm in desperate straits"
The Robinson Crusoe of Siberia
Stalin's reindeer-propelled sleigh and a Siberian son
Pt. 5. 1917 spring : floundering leader
1917 summer : sailors on the streets
1917 autumn : Soso and Nadya
1917 winter : the countdown
Glorious October 1917 : the bungled uprising
Power : Stalin out of the shadows.
