LEADER 03087cam a2200373 a 4500001 5262955 005 20151111201324.0 008 031215r20042003nyuab b 001 0beng 003 hubpceuo 020 9780753817667 040 DLC |cDLC |dIG# |dIAK |dOrLoB-B |bEnglish 043 e-ur--- 050 00 DK268.S8 |bM573 2004 082 00 947.084/2/092 |222 100 1 Sebag Montefiore, Simon, |d1965- 242 |yEnglish 245 10 Stalin : |bthe court of the red tsar / |cby Simon Sebag Montefiore. 260 London : |bPhoenix, |c2004. 300 xxxii, 720 p. : |bill., maps ; |c20 cm. 500 Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 1 "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. 600 10 Stalin, Joseph, |d1879-1953. 650 0 Heads of state |zSoviet Union |vBiography. 651 0 Soviet Union |xHistory |y1925-1953. 856 42 |3Publisher description |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2003027390.html 856 41 |3Table of contents |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003027390.html 900 AUTH |bTOC 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6947_084000000000000_2_092_MON |70 |8GEN |951678OSA |bOSA |d2015-07-08 |eOSA |l0 |o947.084/2/092 MON |r2015-07-08 |w2015-07-08 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 7XLaWmYL 992 01 947_084000000000000_2_092_MON |bQVS_ZRVZZZZZZZZZZZZ_X_ZQX_DBC 966 |cIn the Research Room