Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
AuthorSimon Sebag Montefiore
LanguageEnglish
Publication date
2003
ISBN9781842127261

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar is a 2003 history book by Simon Sebag Montefiore. It primarily deals with the lives of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and those around him from the late 1920s through to his death in 1953, covering the period of collectivization, the Moscow show trials, the purges, World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.[1]

The book used previously unseen archival material and Montefiore also conducted interviews with surviving family members from Stalin's inner circle.[2] Montefiore later wrote the companion piece Young Stalin, published in 2007.

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  1. ^ Pipes, Richard (April 18, 2004). "The Fourth Greatest". New York Times. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
    - "Blood on the tracks". The Economist. July 26, 2003. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  2. ^ Robert Legvold (May–June 2004). "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar; Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved April 24, 2017.