I have just realised that the “Young Stalin” book purchased on Monday for a mere 25p from a charity shop is the third related book on the dictator I have. The others are “Stalin's Last Crime : The Doctor's Plot” by Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P Naumov , and “Stalin's Nemesis : The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky” by Bertrand Patenaude. All from charity shop perusals.

