I Woke Up as Stalin to Save the World From Myself
Meet Jake Vance. A gentle, empathetic 21st-century high school history teacher, he knows all about the great tragedies of the past. From the safety of his classroom, he lectures on the brutal cost of power, knowing he could never wield it himself. He is a good man in a world that has little use for one.
After a particularly draining day, he goes to sleep, only to awaken to the biting cold of a cheap room and the coarse feel of unfamiliar clothes. The world of smartphones and apathy is gone, replaced by the fervor, paranoia, and smoke-filled rooms of the early 20th century.
He is no longer Jake Vance. He is now Ioseb "Soso" Jughashvili, a hardened revolutionary, a poet-turned-bank-robber for the Bolshevik cause. He is a young man on a path that Jake knows, with sickening certainty, leads to the Gulags, the purges, and the deaths of millions. He is the man who will become Joseph Stalin.
For a man of conscience, it is not an opportunity. It is a curse. His first instinct is to end it all—to sacrifice one life to save countless others. But staring into a cracked mirror, he finds that the simple human will to live is a powerful, stubborn thing.
If he can't die, he must do the impossible: navigate the bloody crucible of the Russian Revolution and steer history off its catastrophic course. But he's trapped in a gilded cage of his own making, caught in a battle for the soul of a future empire.
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