📗 Libro en inglés STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR

This intimate biography of Joseph Stalin is also a group portrait of Stalin and those around him during his 30-year rule of the Soviet Union--including Beria, Molotov, Stalin's wife, Nadya, and others in his court. It is thick with details of everyday life, and it is this detail that demythologizes the Soviet dictator, and which reveals his monstrous, complicated psyche. Montefiore never skirts the history, nor the ideology, and Stalin's crimes are on full display here. For this book, Montefiore did prodigious research in Russian archives, and interviewed those who were there, as well as their children, who witnessed and remembered. He writes of Stalin's interests and petty concerns, and of the intrigue around him by many who also had their own stories of power and their struggle to survive. STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR is about people and power, and Montefiore takes the Russian court and brings it to life.