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.

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

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