Before Evil: Young Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Kim Gauthier Brandon K.
Before Evil: Young Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Kim Gauthier Brandon K. Should we humanize the world's most inhumane leaders?Adolf Hitler. Benito Mussolini. Joseph Stalin. Kim Il Sung.…
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Before Evil: Young Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Kim Gauthier Brandon K.
Should we humanize the world's most inhumane leaders?Adolf Hitler. Benito Mussolini. Joseph Stalin.
Kim Il Sung. Mao Zedong. Vladimir Lenin.
These cruel dictators wrote their names on the pages of history in the blood of countless innocent victims. Yet they themselves were once young people searching for their place in the world, dealing with challenges many of us face--parental authority, education, romance, loss--and doing so in ways that might be uncomfortably familiar.Historian Brandon K. Gauthier has created a fascinating work--epic yet intimate, well-researched but immensely readable, clear-eyed and empathetic--looking at the lives of these six dictators, with a focus on their youths.
We watch Lenin's older brother executed at the hands of the Tsar's police--an event that helped radicalize this overachieving high-schooler. We observe Stalin grappling