Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research and narrative ?lan, Simon Sebag Montefiore gives us the...
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This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research and narrative ?lan, Simon Sebag Montefiore gives us the everyday details of a monstrous life.We see Stalin playing his deadly game of power and paranoia at debauched dinners at Black Sea villas and in the apartments of the Kremlin. We witness first-hand how the dictator and his magnates carried out the Great Terror and the war against the Nazis, and how their families lived in this secret world of fear, betrayal, murder, and sexual degeneracy. Montefiore gives an unprecedented understanding of Stalin’s dictatorship, and a Stalin as human and complicated as he is brutal.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781400076789 (1400076781)
ASIN: 1400076781
Publish date: September 13th 2005
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 848
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
War,
Politics,
Russia,
Biography Memoir,
World War II,
Death,
European History
Montefiore's history of Jerusalem happened to be the first book I reviewed on Booklikes and I was happy to revisit the author with another one of his works. It seems that every time I pick up a history book in a book shop it is endorsed by Montefiore, he's clearly very passionate in his pursuit of h...
Simon Sebag Montefiore. Hmm... No to naprawdę jest gość. Napisać coś takiego o Stalinie. A potem jeszcze o jego młodości. I o Potiomkinie i Katarzynie Wielkiej, i Jerozolimie. I jeszcze w międzyczasie "Saszeńkę" opisującą czasy od cara Mikołaja II aż do lat dziewięćdziesiątych XX wieku i jej kontynu...
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Edward Read from October 02 to 15, 2013 I had attached the following review to the wrong book, namely 'Young Stalin' by this same author, DOH!::It took a lot to match Alan Bullock's expansive and magisterial doorstopper yet this threw some light onto the personal side ...
List of IllustrationsStalin Family TreeMapsIntroduction and AcknowledgementsList of Characters--Stalin: The Court of the Red TsarPostscriptSelect BibliographyIndex
List of IllustrationsStalin Family TreeMapsIntroduction and AcknowledgementsList of Characters--Stalin: The Court of the Red TsarPostscriptSelect BibliographyIndex