Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

Sebag-Montefiore, Simon

ISBN 10: 0753817667 / ISBN 13: 9780753817667

Published by Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), London, United Kingdom, 2004

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720 pages. B&W plates. Very clean indeed white-background covers, red and black titles. Fine and unmarked pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
• Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0753817667
• ISBN 13: 9780753817667
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good ++/Fine

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Synopsis

There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great's lover, prime minister and general Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty he trusted only until the next purge. 'Spectacular...an impressive and compelling work' Philip Mansel, Spectator 'This magnificent portrait of the dictator' Richard Overy, Literary Review

About the Author

Simon Sebag Montefiore is a prizewinning historian whose bestselling books have been published in over forty-five languages. CATHERINE THE GREAT AND POTEMKIN was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards; YOUNG STALIN won the Costa Biography Award, LA Times Biography Prize and Le Grand Prix de Biographie; JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY was a number one bestseller and won the Jewish Book Council's Book of the Year prize; THE ROMANOVS: 1613-1918 was an international bestseller and won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize. Montefiore is also the author of the acclaimed novels SASHENKA, RED SKY AT NOON and ONE NIGHT IN WINTER, which won the Paddy Power Political Fiction Book of the Year Award. He read history at Cambridge University where he received his PhD, and now lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children.
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