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The Outfit

The Absolutely True Story of the Time Joseph Stalin Robbed a Bank

by David Tallerman
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Lies and double-crosses, secret police and explosions, a carriage chase, a mattress stuffed with cash and a one-eyed master of disguise...

In 1907, the revolutionary Joseph Djugashvili – who would later take the name Joseph Stalin – met with an old friend, a clerk at the Tiflis branch of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, for a glass of milk. Over talk of national pride, the spirit of the new century and Djugashvili's poetry, they agreed the beginnings of a plan.

With the aid of the Outfit, Djugashvili's hardened crew of "expropriators," they would pull off the biggest, bloodiest and most daring robbery in Georgia's history, and ruthlessly change the direction of the Bolshevik revolution forever...

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    May 14, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781786184474

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      • ISBN: 9781786184474
      • File size: 382 KB

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    • English

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    • Booklist

      May 13, 2022
      In 1907, a group of men staged a daring stagecoach robbery in Tiflis, Russia (now Georgia). They pulled off the heist in order to steal money to fund the Bolshevik revolution. The caper was initially suggested by Lenin, the leader of the Bolsheviks, and it was planned and executed by a gang that was led by a poet-turned-revolutionary named Joseph Djugashvili. This sounds mildly interesting--a stagecoach robbery in twentieth-century Russia, set in motion by Lenin--but add in this tidbit of information: a handful of years after the robbery, Joseph Djugashvili would change his last name to Stalin. Tallerman writes the story as though it's a caper novel, with all the action, intrigue, and larger-than-life characters that suggests, but it's a true story, and there's a serious angle here: this violent, bloody robbery helped fuel a revolution, and in a very real sense led to the creation of the man called Joseph Stalin, whose violent, totalitarian rule of the Soviet Union would last for three decades. A fine mix of world history and true crime.

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