Stalin Court Red Tsar by Sebag Montefiore, First Edition (21 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition 13th Printing. Book is in good condition. Pages are yellowing at the edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, tears and sun fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. original cloth hardcover, illustrated, 693 pages, top page edges spotted otherwise near fine in near fine unclipped dustwrapper. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B196.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. third impression 693pp with b&w illustrations. Heavy book extra overseas post.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. First USA Edition. A biography of the Soviet dictator and the men and women who surrounded him focuses on the foundation of human, psychological, and physical supports that encouraged him through the early days of Communism, World War II, and the Great Terror. Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. xxvii, 785 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Bright, clean and unmarked, still fresh. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Thick and heavy weighing 1.085kg, pre-packing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Softcover. Condition: As New. First Edition. First Impression. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 720 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are very lightly tanned throughout. Edges browned slightly. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are available on request. 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. Crammed with grimly revealing anecdotes and hitherto unheard testimony, this is a book that anatomises, with vivid insight and compelling readability, the corruptions of absolute power and the psychology of those who wield it. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Russia; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781474614818. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10244.

First Edition. Signed by the author. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 720 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimile, genealogical table, maps, portraits ; 20 cm. Subjects: Stalin, Joseph 1878-1953. Heads of state Soviet Union ; Biography. Statesmen Soviet Union ; Biography. Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936. Soviet Union Politics and government 1936-1953. Genre: Biography. Language: English. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Signed by the author. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 720 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimile, genealogical table, maps, portraits ; 20 cm. Subjects: Stalin, Joseph 1878-1953. Heads of state Soviet Union ; Biography. Statesmen Soviet Union ; Biography. Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936. Soviet Union Politics and government 1936-1953. Genre: Biography. Language: English. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Knopf, 2003. Octavo. Book is like new with very light toning to the page ends. Dust jacket is like new, clipped, and light toning to the back cover. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. large, thick red & black hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic cover. very fine cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond., not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first american edition so stated. first printing (nap). deckled foredge. xxvii+785p+ author bio. note & colophon. genealogical chart. 2 b&w maps. approx. 75 glossy b&w photo. illustrations. postscript. source notes. select biblio. index. biography. world history politics. bolshevik revolution. russian revolution. communism . marxism. leninism. world war i. world war ii. cold war. atomic war. espionage. conspiracy theory. secret societies. history of the soviet union. russian history. nazi germany.~ Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes~as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag~has given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century. But though the facts of Stalin's reign are well known, this remarkable biography reveals a Stalin we have never seen before as it illuminates the vast foundation~human, psychological and physical~that supported and encouraged him, the men and women who did his bidding, lived in fear of him and, more often than not, were betrayed by him. In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative elan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalin's court from the time of his acclamation as "leader" in 1929, five years after Lenin's death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of seventy~three. Through the lens of personality~Stalin's as well as those of his most notorious henchmen, Molotov, Beria and Yezhov among them~the author sheds new light on the oligarchy that attempted to create a new world by exterminating the old. He gives us the details of their quotidian and monstrous lives: Stalin's favorites in music, movies, literature (Hemingway, The Forsyte Saga and The Last of the Mohicans were at the top of his list), food and history (he took Ivan the Terrible as his role model and swore by Lenin's dictum, "A revolution without firing squads is meaningless"). We see him among his courtiers, his informal but deadly game of power played out at dinners and parties at Black Sea villas and in the apartments of the Kremlin. We see the debauchery, paranoia and cravenness that ruled the lives of Stalin's inner court, and we see how the dictator played them one against the other in order to hone the awful efficiency of his killing machine. With stunning attention to detail, Montefiore documents the crimes, small and large, of all the members of Stalin's court. And he traces the intricate and shifting web of their relationships as the relative warmth of Stalin's rule in the early 1930s gives way to the Great Terror of the late 1930s, the upheaval of World War II (there has never been as acute an account of Stalin's meeting at Yalta with Churchill and Roosevelt) and the horrific postwar years when he terrorized his closest associates as unrelentingly as he did the rest of the country. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar gives an unprecedented understanding of Stalin's dictatorship, and, as well, a Stalin as human and complicated as he is brutal. It is a galvanizing portrait: razor~sharp, sensitive and unforgiving.

2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, maps and pedigree; printed cloth, backstrips lettered in red and black, ribbon markers, a near fine copy in publisher's printed board slip-case.