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Simon Sebag Montefiore

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Simon Sebag Montefiore’s biography is Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. He chronicles Stalin’s court from his acclamation 1929 until his death in 1953. According to some estimates, about 20 million Russians died in Stalin's purges and in his notorious Gulag.

» Read an excerpt of Stalin in the Reading Room
» More about the author

Music: Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad” by Gergiev Shostakovich


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