Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Simon Sebag Montefiore's biography of Stalin and the circle of magnates and their families around him, from the early 1930s to his death in 1953. Drawing on newly opened archives and interviews, it portrays the fear, betrayal, privilege and murderous cruelty of the Kremlin court, and shows how Stalin's crimes grew out of both his fanatical Marxism and his character.