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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2005
ISBN
1400076781, 9781400076789
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
9 MB (9553213 bytes)
Pages
848\0
Time added
2013-12-25 08:44:18

Description

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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