This widely acclaimed biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader, and Russian tsar.
Based on groundbreaking research, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals the fear and betrayal, privilege and debauchery, family life and murderous cruelty of this secret world. Written with bracing narrative verve, this feat of scholarly research has become a classic of modern history writing. Showing how Stalin's triumphs and crimes were the product of his fanatical Marxism and his gifted but flawed character, this is an intimate portrait of a man as complicated and human as he was brutal and chilling.
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"An extraordinary book. . . . For anyone fascinated by the nature of evil--and by the effects of absolute power on human relationships--this book will provide new insights on every page." --Anne Applebaum, Evening Standard (London)
"The first intimate portrait of a man who had more lives on his conscience than Hitler. . . . Disturbing and perplexing." --Richard Pipes, The New York Times Book Review
"Superb. . . . No Western writer has got as close. . . . A dark and excellent book." --The New York Review of Books
"Terrific. . . . A deeply researched and wonderfully readable accomplishment--scholarship as a kind of savage gossip." --Time
"Unprecedented in its intimacy and horrifying in its implications, not merely because it shows that the engineers of one of history's greatest holocausts were depraved . . . but also because they emerge in these pages as surprisingly normal." --The Washington Post Book World
"A marvelously well-researched book. . . . Montefiore has written a supremely important book about Joseph Stalin, a biography that other scholars will find hard to equal. This is sure to be one of the outstanding books of the year." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Ultra reader-friendly, lively, gossipy and packaged with revelations about the intimacies and intrigues of Stalin the man and his courtiers. Brilliant." --Evening Standard Book Page"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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