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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Montefiore, Simon Sebag , hardcover
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- ISBN
- 9781400042302
- Book Title
- Stalin : the Court of the Red Tsar
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 2in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Presidents & Heads of State, Political, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.7in
- Item Weight
- 44.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 816 Pages
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Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimesas many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulaghas 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 foundationhuman, psychological and physicalthat 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 élan, 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 personalityStalin's as well as those of his most notorious henchmen, Molotov, Beria and Yezhov among themthe 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 (Hemmingway,The Forsyte SagaandThe Last of the Mohicanswere 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 his country. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsargives 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.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400042305
ISBN-13
9781400042302
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6050577
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stalin : the Court of the Red Tsar
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Presidents & Heads of State, Political, Historical
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
816 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
2in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
44.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Dk268.S8m573 2004
Reviews
"Terrific . . . Montefiore's portrait of Stalin and his circle is a deeply researched and wonderfully readable accomplishmentscholarship as a kind of savage gossip . . . its sensationalism redeemed by Montefiore's deep grounding in the facts." Lance Murrow, Time "Montefiore's superb book offers a closer look at this personal side of Stalin and his top collaborators. Indeed, no Western writer has got as close. He trawled through newly opened (and often subsequently closed) Soviet archives, which brought some astonishing material to the surface . . . [A] dark and excellent book." Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books "A fascinating biography . . . The first intimate portrait of a man who had more lives on his conscience than Hitler."Richard Pipes, New York Times Book Review "Mr. Montefiore draws upon new archival material, unpublished memoirs and interviews with survivors of that era (including many children of Stalin's associates and underlings) to create a harrowing portrait of life in the dictator's inner circle. In doing so, he gives us an intimate look at Stalin himself and the culture of sadism, ruthlessness and dread that flourished around him, fueling a murderous regime that would leave tens of millions of people dead."Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "A well-researched and insightful book . . . The narrative adroitly catches the atmosphere of the time."Richard Lourie, Los Angeles Times "A fascinating, superbly written study . . . There is much news here and much to ponder. Altogether extraordinary, and required reading for anyone interested in world affairs." Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Because of its extraordinary detail, this portrait of Joseph Stain is as realistic as is currently historically possible . . . By illustrating how Stalin acted in private, Montefiore has produced a landmark work that rounds out political biographies of the tyrant." Booklist (starred review) "There are many Stalin biographies out there, but this fascinating work distinguishes itself by its extensive use of fresh archival material and its focus on Stalin's ever-changing coterie."Publishers Weekly "If you plan (wisely) to read only one book about Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, let it be "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar." Simon Sebag Montefiore, writing with the skill of a novelist . . . has based his highly readable biographical thriller solidly and factually not only on all of the preceding scholarly studies of the Soviet dictator but also upon newly available archival materials."Seattle Times, "Terrific . . . Montefiore's portrait of Stalin and his circle is a deeply researched and wonderfully readable accomplishmentscholarship as a kind of savage gossip . . . its sensationalism redeemed by Montefiore's deep grounding in the facts." Lance Murrow,Time "Montefiore's superb book offers a closer look at this personal side of Stalin and his top collaborators. Indeed, no Western writer has got as close. He trawled through newly opened (and often subsequently closed) Soviet archives, which brought some astonishing material to the surface . . . [A] dark and excellent book." Ian Buruma,New York Review of Books "A fascinating biography . . . The first intimate portrait of a man who had more lives on his conscience than Hitler."Richard Pipes,New York Times Book Review "Mr. Montefiore draws upon new archival material, unpublished memoirs and interviews with survivors of that era (including many children of Stalin's associates and underlings) to create a harrowing portrait of life in the dictator's inner circle. In doing so, he gives us an intimate look at Stalin himself and the culture of sadism, ruthlessness and dread that flourished around him, fueling a murderous regime that would leave tens of millions of people dead."Michiko Kakutani,New York Times "A well-researched and insightful book . . . The narrative adroitly catches the atmosphere of the time."Richard Lourie,Los Angeles Times "A fascinating, superbly written study . . . There is much news here and much to ponder. Altogether extraordinary, and required reading for anyone interested in world affairs." Kirkus Reviews(starred review) "Because of its extraordinary detail, this portrait of Joseph Stain is as realistic as is currently historically possible . . . By illustrating how Stalin acted in private, Montefiore has produced a landmark work that rounds out political biographies of the tyrant." Booklist(starred review) "There are many Stalin biographies out there, but this fascinating work distinguishes itself by its extensive use of fresh archival material and its focus on Stalin's ever-changing coterie."Publishers Weekly "If you plan (wisely) to read only one book about Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, let it be "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar." Simon Sebag Montefiore, writing with the skill of a novelist . . . has based his highly readable biographical thriller solidly and factually not only on all of the preceding scholarly studies of the Soviet dictator but also upon newly available archival materials."Seattle Times From the Hardcover edition., "Terrific . . . Montefiore's portrait of Stalin and his circle is a deeply researched and wonderfully readable accomplishmentscholarship as a kind of savage gossip . . . its sensationalism redeemed by Montefiore's deep grounding in the facts." Lance Murrow,Time "Montefiore's superb book offers a closer look at this personal side of Stalin and his top collaborators. Indeed, no Western writer has got as close. He trawled through newly opened (and often subsequently closed) Soviet archives, which brought some astonishing material to the surface . . . [A] dark and excellent book." Ian Buruma,New York Review of Books "A fascinating biography . . . The first intimate portrait of a man who had more lives on his conscience than Hitler."Richard Pipes,New York Times Book Review "Mr. Montefiore draws upon new archival material, unpublished memoirs and interviews with survivors of that era (including many children of Stalin's associates and underlings) to create a harrowing portrait of life in the dictator's inner circle. In doing so, he gives us an intimate look at Stalin himself and the culture of sadism, ruthlessness and dread that flourished around him, fueling a murderous regime that would leave tens of millions of people dead."Michiko Kakutani,New York Times "A well-researched and insightful book . . . The narrative adroitly catches the atmosphere of the time."Richard Lourie,Los Angeles Times "A fascinating, superbly written study . . . There is much news here and much to ponder. Altogether extraordinary, and required reading for anyone interested in world affairs." Kirkus Reviews(starred review) "Because of its extraordinary detail, this portrait of Joseph Stain is as realistic as is currently historically possible . . . By illustrating how Stalin acted in private, Montefiore has produced a landmark work that rounds out political biographies of the tyrant." Booklist(starred review) "There are many Stalin biographies out there, but this fascinating work distinguishes itself by its extensive use of fresh archival material and its focus on Stalin's ever-changing coterie."Publishers Weekly "If you plan (wisely) to read only one book about Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, let it be "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar." Simon Sebag Montefiore, writing with the skill of a novelist . . . has based his highly readable biographical thriller solidly and factually not only on all of the preceding scholarly studies of the Soviet dictator but also upon newly available archival materials."Seattle Times
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
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2003-027390
Dewey Decimal
947.084/2/092 B
Dewey Edition
22
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