In 1960, the One-Shot Review published an essay cheekily titled Three Great. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Montefiore graduated from Cambridge University, where he received his PhD. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Orion, 30). Montefiore’s books are published in more than forty languages. Jerusalem: The Biography was a worldwide bestseller. Young Stalin won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award, and le Grande Prix de la biographie politique. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. The Court of the Red Tsar was a hard act to follow not only because of its popular success but because it was an eye-opener to scholars as well: it was the first biography to use the newly accessible Stalin archive to present Stalin among his circle his family, friends and political associates. Catherine the Great and Potemkin was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Simon Sebag Montefiore is a historian of Russia and the Middle East. Showing how Stalin's triumphs and crimes were the product of his fanatical Marxism and his gifted but flawed character, this is an intimate portrait of a man as complicated and human as he was brutal and chilling. Written with bracing narrative verve, this feat of scholarly research has become a classic of modern history writing. This widely acclaimed biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader, and Russian tsar.īased on groundbreaking research, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals the fear and betrayal, privilege and debauchery, family life and murderous cruelty of this secret world. The remarkable untold story of the Soviet tyrant and the men and women who sustained him in power in the Soviet Union for nearly 30 years.
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