![]() Synopsisįifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. A galvanizing portrait: razor-sharp, sensitive, and unforgiving. Exploring every aspect of the man's inner and outer life-from his doomed marriage and his mistresses, to his obsession with film, music, and literature, to his identification with the Tsars-the author reveals a Stalin perhaps no less brutal but certainly more human and complex than any we have encouraged before. ![]() There have been many biographies of Stalin, but none of them has done what Simon Sebag Montefiore accomplishes: illuminating the vast foundation-human, psychological, and physical-that supported and encouraged the dictator through the early days of Communism, World War II, and the years of the Great Terror, in which 10 million Soviets died in Stalin's purges and in his infamous Gulag. ![]() An unprecedented biography of the Soviet tyrant and of the men and women who sustained him in power for nearly 30 years-a seamless meshing of new and exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis, and narrative elan from a British historian of prodigious talents. ![]()
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