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Stalin

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	: Phoenix
Release Date	: 2014-06
ISBN	: 9781780228358
Pages	: 720 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Stalin written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great's lover, prime minister and general Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty he trusted only until the next purge.

Stalin

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	: Gollancz
Release Date	: 2012
ISBN	: 9781780221878
Pages	: 720 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Stalin written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2012 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 in captivating detail the fear and betrayal, privilege and debauchery, family life and murderous cruelty of this secret world. Written with extraordinary narrative verve, this magnificent feat of scholarly research has become a classic of modern history writing. Showing how Stalin's triumphs and crimes were the product of his fanatical Marxism and his gifted but flawed character, this is an intimate portrait of a man as complicated and human as he was brutal and chilling.

Young Stalin

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2010-05-27
ISBN	: 0297863843
Pages	: 480 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Young Stalin written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet, prolific lover, gangster mastermind and murderous revolutionary. Culminating in the 1917 revolution, Simon Sebag Montefiore's bestselling biography radically alters our understanding of the gifted politician and fanatical Marxist who shaped the Soviet empire in his own brutal image. This is the story of how Stalin became Stalin.

Sashenka

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN	: 1416595546
Pages	: 539 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Sashenka written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early twentieth-century Russia, Sashenka Zeitlin becomes caught up in the revolutionary fervor destined to bring down the czar, as she deals with arrest and imprisonment, the bloody battles that engulf the country under Stalin, and a forbidden love aff

Voices of History

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2019-10-01
ISBN	: 1474609945
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Voices of History written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, updated edition including new speeches from Queen Elizabeth II and John Boyega in the year 2020. This collection of extraordinary speeches ranges from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Some are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious; some are exquisite and poignant; others cruel and chilling. Among others we hear from Martin Luther King, Michelle Obama, Donald Trump, Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Alexander the Great, Greta Thunberg, Elizabeth I, Cromwell, Churchill, JFK, Boudicca, Muhammad Ali and Malala. Voices of History shows how these unique speeches enlighten our past, enrich our present and inspire - and hold warnings for - our future.

The Moscow Trilogy

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2018-03-08
ISBN	: 1473559723
Pages	: 2912 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Moscow Trilogy written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 2912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and master storyteller Simon Sebag Montefiore's gripping, moving and highly acclaimed novels of love and war, betrayal, espionage and terror - gathered here for the first time in one compelling volume. Sashenka It is winter 1916 in the tsar’s wartime capital St Petersburg and the beautiful and headstrong Sashenka Zeitlin plays a dangerous game of conspiracy and seduction. Twenty years on, she is a perfect Communist wife and mother who risks everything for a forbidden love affair with a pleasure loving writer which will have devastating consequences. Sashenka's story lies hidden for half a century until a young historian goes deep into Stalin's private archives and uncovers a heartbreaking story of passion, betrayal, and unexpected heroism. Red Sky at Noon Imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion to fight the invading Nazis and enrols in a cavalry unit of criminals and Cossacks sent on a desperate ride across the sweltering grasslands of southern Russia. Switching between the cruel war and Stalin's secrets in the Kremlin, Benya’s affair with an Italian nurse is the heart of this epic story of passion, bravery and survival where betrayal and death are constant companions, – and love, however fleeting and doomed, offers a glimmer of redemption. One Night in Winter As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, the teenage children of two of Russia's top leaders are found dead. An investigation begins in their elite school, teenagers and children are arrested and forced to testify against their friends and their parents. The terrifying inquiry soon unveils illicit love affairs and family secrets in a world where the smallest mistakes can be punished by death.

The Romanovs

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	: Knopf
Release Date	: 2016
ISBN	: 0307266524
Pages	: 817 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Romanovs written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2016 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The acclaimed author of Young Stalin and Jerusalem gives readers an accessible, lively account--based in part on new archival material--of the extraordinary men and women who ruled Russia for three centuries."--NoveList.

The Romanovs

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2016-01-28
ISBN	: 1474600271
Pages	: 608 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book The Romanovs written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance, and peopled by a cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets. Written with dazzling literary flair, drawing on new archival research, THE ROMANOVS is at once an enthralling chronicle of triumph and tragedy, love and death, a universal study of power, and an essential portrait of the empire that still defines Russia today.

Written in History

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2018-10-04
ISBN	: 1474609201
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Written in History written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some are noble and inspiring, some despicable and unsettling; some are exquisite works of literature, others brutal, coarse and frankly outrageous; many are erotic, others heartbreaking. The writers vary from Elizabeth I, Rameses the Great and Leonard Cohen to Emmeline Pankhurst, Mandela, Stalin, Michelangelo, Suleiman the Magnificent and unknown people in extraordinary circumstances - from love letters to calls for liberation, declarations of war to reflections on death. In the colourful, accessible style of a master storyteller, Montefiore shows why these letters are essential reading: how they enlighten our past, enrich the way we live now - and illuminate tomorrow.

The World

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2022-10-27
ISBN	: 0297869698
Pages	: 1526 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book The World written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 1526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on an exhilarating epic journey through the families that have shaped our world: the Caesars, Medicis and Incas, Ottomans and Mughals, Bonapartes, Habsburgs and Zulus, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Krupps, Churchills, Kennedys, Castros, Nehrus, Pahlavis and Kenyattas, Saudis, Kims and Assads. A rich cast of complex characters form the beating heart of the story. Some are well-known leaders, from Alexander the Great, Attila, Ivan the Terrible and Genghis Khan to Hitler, Thatcher, Obama, Putin and Zelensky. Some are creative, from Socrates, Michelangelo and Shakespeare to Newton, Mozart, Balzac, Freud, Bowie and Tim Berners-Lee. Others are lesser-known: Hongwu, who began life as a beggar and founded the Ming dynasty; Kamehameha, conqueror of Hawaii; Zenobia, Arab empress who defied Rome; King Henry of Haiti; Lady Murasaki, first female novelist; Sayyida al-Hurra, Moroccan pirate-queen. Here are not just conquerors and queens but prophets, charlatans, actors, gangsters, artists, scientists, doctors, tycoons, lovers, wives, husbands and children. This is world history on the most grand and intimate scale - spanning centuries, continents and cultures, and linking grand themes of war, migration, plague, religion, medicine and technology to the people at the centre of the human drama. As spellbinding as fiction, The World captures the story of humankind in all its joy, sorrow, romance, ingenuity and cruelty in a ground-breaking, single narrative that will forever shift the boundaries of what history can achieve.

The Times, Life and Moral Dilemma of Beria

Author	: Andrew Sangster
Publisher	: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date	: 2019-02-28
ISBN	: 1527530469
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Times, Life and Moral Dilemma of Beria written by Andrew Sangster and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are some figures in modern history who stand out not just for their amoral conduct but their cruelty. This book explores the life of the notorious Beria, Stalin’s henchman. The first part provides an outline of the turbulent history of Russia from 1900 to 1953, in order to set the background from which Beria emerged. The second section presents a biography of Beria from his youth, his early education, and his obsequious behaviour towards Stalin to his rise to be the head of the NKVD (KGB) and later to be amongst the most senior leaders of the Communist structure in the USSR. He was responsible for the deaths of millions (and for organising the Katyń massacre), infamous for murdering colleagues, and a sexual predator, and became the most feared man in the USSR next to Stalin. The third and fourth parts move away from history and biography to moral philosophy, in order to understand from where such evil conduct arises. The question of free-will is explored in the light of human insight, and these sections also discuss the most recent scientific claims concerning human behaviour, as well as the factors which influence people in decision making.

My Affair with Stalin

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1998-06-26
ISBN	: 9780753801581
Pages	: 226 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book My Affair with Stalin written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by . This book was released on 1998-06-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Montefiore's skill in transferring Stalin's tactics and the revolutionary dynamic to a story of schoolboy rivalry ensures that what might have been a narrative corset becomes a metaphorical mirror. Schoolboy machinations mimic Soviet power struggles and both, in turn, wittily reflect the daily political manoeuvrings of many organisations. The camaraderie fostered by a cause, the corruption of power and the glamour of evil are all anatomised with a light touch and an honest eye... Engaging and assured...a thoroughly nourishing confection.' The Times.

Joseph Stalin's Life and Political Power. The Man and the Symbol

Author	: Michael Gorman
Publisher	: GRIN Verlag
Release Date	: 2016-06-02
ISBN	: 3668232296
Pages	: 10 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Joseph Stalin's Life and Political Power. The Man and the Symbol written by Michael Gorman and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2015 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Ages of World Wars, grade: 92.0, Westminster College, language: English, abstract: It is proposed that Joseph Stalin, the man as well as the symbol, be analyzed in order to reveal the man behind the icon. This research will include details of Stalin's everyday life and his vacations on the Black Sea, the “Great Terror,” World War II, and the terrifying decades of his supreme power. It will also go into detail about the suicide of Stalin's wife, Nadya, and how it affected him for the rest of his life, what kind of man he was as a father, as well as the lives of the members of his inner circle and their fall from grace. From a historical context Joseph Stalin comes off as being psychotic, merciless, killer, and a brutal dictator. This research will attempt to reveal that this dictator of a nuclear capable world super-power, merges as being, although a bit paranoid, surprisingly normal and quite human.

Potemkin

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN	: 9780753818343
Pages	: 618 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Potemkin written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography prizes It is one of the great love stories of history, and one of its most successful political partnerships. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition, perhaps the greatest of the Romanovs. Prince Potemkin - wildly flamboyant and sublimely talented - was the love of her life and her co-ruler. Together they seized Ukraine and Crimea and founded cities such as Sebastopol, defining the Russian empire to this day. Their affair was so tumultuous they negotiated an arrangement to share power, leaving Potemkin free to love his beautiful nieces, Catherine her young male favourites. But these 'twin souls' never stopped loving each other. Drawing on their intimate letters and vast new research from St Petersburg to Odessa, Simon Sebag Montefiore's enthralling, much-acclaimed biography restores these imperial partners to their rightful place as titans of their age.

Prince of Princes

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date	: 2001-09-20
ISBN	: 9781842124383
Pages	: 634 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Prince of Princes written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is one of the great love stories of history, and one of its most successful political partnerships. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition, perhaps the greatest of the Romanovs. Prince Potemkin - wildly flamboyant and sublimely talented - was the love of her life and her co-ruler. Together they seized Ukraine and Crimea and founded cities such as Sebastopol, defining the Russian empire to this day. Their affair was so tumultuous they negotiated an arrangement to share power, leaving Potemkin free to love his beautiful nieces, Catherine her young male favourites. But these 'twin souls' never stopped loving each other. Drawing on their intimate letters and vast new research from St Petersburg to Odessa, Simon Sebag Montefiore's enthralling, much-acclaimed biography restores these imperial partners to their rightful place as titans of their age.

One Night in Winter

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	: Harper Perennial
Release Date	: 2015-05-05
ISBN	: 9780062291899
Pages	: 496 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book One Night in Winter written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by events in Stalin's Moscow at the end of WWII, One Night in Winter begins with the shooting of two teenagers in the shadow of the Kremlin. As the children of Soviet officials, they inhabit a rarefied world that revolves around the exclusive Josef Stalin Commune School 801. The school is an enclave of privilege—but one that hides a wealth of secrets. Stalin launches a ruthless investigation. In what comes to be known as the Children's Case, youths from the school are arrested by state security services and brought to the infamous Lubyanka, where they are forced to testify against their friends and families. Among the betrayed are illicit lovers whose reckless passion could destroy all they hold dear. As Stalin's witch hunt reaches its climax, the lovers realize that the decision to follow one's heart comes at a terrible price.

Jerusalem

Author	: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher	: Gollancz
Release Date	: 2011
ISBN	: 9780297866923
Pages	: 638 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2011 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the "center of the world" and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem's biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women -- kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores -- who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan. Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime's study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice -- in heaven and on earth. - Publisher.