Young Stalin - Simon Sebag Montefiore

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar - Simon Sebag Montefiore

Stalin's one of those guys who is pretty hard to avoid if you have any kind of interest in Twentieth Century history. One of the century's more unpleasant tyrants, he succeeded Lenin as head of the Soviet Union and ruled until his death in 1953. He was responsible for an awful lot of suffering and misery. His style of government can best be described as paranoid, as anyone who was suspected of even the slightest disloyalty to the Communist cause was executed. Millions died as a result of his agricultural policies, and millions more through persecution led by his sinister secret police chiefs - show trials, Siberian gulags and all the rest of that bad stuff. He invaded Poland with Hitler, ...

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar - Simon Sebag Montefiore

Stalin's one of those guys who is pretty hard to avoid if you have any kind of interest in Twentieth Century history. One of the century's more unpleasant tyrants, he succeeded Lenin as head of the Soviet Union and ruled until his death in 1953. He was responsible for an awful lot of suffering and misery. His style of government can best be described as paranoid, as anyone who was suspected of even the slightest disloyalty to the Communist cause was executed. Millions died as a result of his agricultural policies, and millions more through persecution led by his sinister secret police chiefs - show trials, Siberian gulags and all the rest of that bad stuff. He invaded Poland with Hitler, ...

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar - Simon Sebag Montefiore

their respective psyches is spine chilling yet bears objective inspection. For these reasons, I decided to read the comprehensive “The Court of the Red Tsar” by the wonderfully named Simon Sebag Montefiore. The book won the History Book of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2004. Simon Sebag Montefiore is a first time author for me. Born in 1965, Montefiore read history at Cambridge and spent much of the nineties travelling through the former Soviet Empire. In particular, he spent time in the Caucasus, Ukraine and Central Asia, covering their wars and turmoil, and writing widely on Russia, Georgia and Chechnya. He has a strong working relationship with The Sunday ...

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar - Simon Sebag Montefiore

their respective psyches is spine chilling yet bears objective inspection. For these reasons, I decided to read the comprehensive “The Court of the Red Tsar” by the wonderfully named Simon Sebag Montefiore. The book won the History Book of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2004. Simon Sebag Montefiore is a first time author for me. Born in 1965, Montefiore read history at Cambridge and spent much of the nineties travelling through the former Soviet Empire. In particular, he spent time in the Caucasus, Ukraine and Central Asia, covering their wars and turmoil, and writing widely on Russia, Georgia and Chechnya. He has a strong working relationship with The Sunday ...