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Based on groundbreaking research, simon sebag montefiore reveals the fear and. Winner of the british book awards history book of the year longlisted for the samuel johnson prize. Court of the red tsar red tsar mines this same vein in his examination of the life of stalin and his inner circle. It concentrates not simply on stalin as dedicated bureaucrat or serial political killer, but on a fuller assessment of his formative interactions in georgia, his youthful revolutionary activism, his relationship with lenin, with his family, and with his party members. Winner of the british book awards history book of the year longlisted for the samuel johnson prize this thrilling 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.
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