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Stalin
the court of the red tsar
By Montefiore, Simon Sebag & Montefiore, Sebag
- ISBN
- 978-1-40004-230-2
- Publisher
- New York : Knopf, 2004.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2004
The mission of this large work by Montefiore (Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin) is to "go beyond the traditional explanations of Stalin as 'enigma,' 'madman,' or 'Satanic genius' and that of his comrades as 'men without biographies,' dreary moustachioed sycophants in black-and-white photographs." In other words, he seeks to reorient our historical perspective by giving us a more intimate account of these men. To do so, he place...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
