Baku was a city of 'debauchery, despotism and extravagance,' and in the city's Bailov prison Stalin was 'always seen in the company of cutthroats, blackmailers, robbers and the gunslingers -- the Mauserists.' Chapter titles such as Bolshevik Temptress" and 1914: Artic Sex Comedy, dealing with the 34-year-old Stalin's commencement of an affair with a 13-year-old girl, also signal the author'