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Joseph Stalin Part 1: The Young Bank Robber
How did a man from the Georgian frontier of the Russian Empire plot a route to power?
Joseph Stalin - the 鈥渕an of steel鈥 - was the party secretary who plotted a route to absolute power, becoming head of the Eastern Bloc and chief nemesis of the United States. But how did a man from the Georgian frontier of the Russian Empire do it? In 1917, the 300-year-old Romanov Dynasty collapses. The communist Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace and seize power. From this band of revolutionaries, a future bloody dictator - a man with an extraordinary backstory - begins to emerge...
A Noiser production, written by Joel Duddell.