Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
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
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Music: Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad” by Gergiev Shostakovich
» Read an excerpt of Stalin in the Reading Room
» More about the author
Music: Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad” by Gergiev Shostakovich


