Download or read book The Secret File of Joseph Stalin written by Roman Brackman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of Stalin's life begins with his early years, the family breakup caused by the suspicion that the boy was the result of an adulterous affair, the abuse by his father and the growth of the traumatized boy into criminal, spy, and finally one of the 20th century's political monsters.