My Dear Son: The Memoirs of Stalin’s Mother (Kindle Single)

The archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia keeps unique documents concerning the activities of the party and security organizations of the Georgian Soviet Republic. One of these remarkable documents is a transcript of the memories of Ekaterine (Keke) Jughashvili, Stalin’s mother, which was dictated in 1935, two years before her death. This is the first time it has been published. The original is written in Georgian and is housed in the Archive of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, f.8, op.2, d.15.