General Information

Author/Creator

Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965-

Language

English.

Published

London : Phoenix, 2004.

Physical Description

xxxii, 720 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes - as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag - has 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 biography reveals a Stalin we have never seen before as it illuminates the vast foundation - human, psychological and physical - that 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." "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 personality - Stalin's as well as those of his most notorious henchmen, Molotov, Beria and Yezhov among them - the author sheds new light on the oligarchy that attempted to create a new world by exterminating the old." "With 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 (with an acute 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Subject

Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.

Heads of state > Soviet Union > Biography.

Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

by Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Note

Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003.

ISBN

9780753817667

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	947.084/2/092 MON		General Stacks	-

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