Stalin
The Court Of The Red Tsar
Montefiore, Simon Sebag
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BOOK SUMMARY
This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtierskillers, fanatics, women, and childrenduring the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research and narrative ?lan, Sim
BOOK SYNOPSIS
This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtierskillers, fanatics, women, and childrenduring 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 Stalins dictatorship, and a Stalin as human and complicated as he is brutal.
BOOK REVIEWS
Terrific. . . . Scholarship as a kind of savage gossip. . . . Deeply researched, wonderfully readable. Time
The first intimate portrait of a man who had more lives on his conscience than Hitler. . . . Disturbing and perplexing. Richard Pipes, The New York Times Book Review
Superb. . . . No Western writer has got as close. . . . A dark and excellent book. The New York Review of Books
A harrowing portrait of life in the dictators inner circle. . . . [Stalin] emerges from this book as a contradictory, creepily flesh-and-blood human being. The New York Times
Unprecedented in its intimacy and horrifying in its implications, not merely because it shows that the engineers of one of historys greatest holocausts were depraved . . . but also because they emerge in these pages as surprisingly normal. The Washington Post Book World
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1400076781
ISBN(13-digit): 9781400076789
Dewey Decimal: 947
Library of Congress: oc2007123808
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 785
Paper Weight (lb): 1.72
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