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Simon Sebag Montefiore is a historian of Russia. Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography prizes in Britain. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar was awarded the History Book of the Year Prize at the 2004 British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Prize (UK) and the Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Austria). His books are world bestsellers, published now in 35 languages. He is the author of a new novel, Sashenka. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature... Read More
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Potemkin
Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $20.00
Prince Grigory Potemkin was Catherine the Great's lover, secret husband, and partner in ruling the Russian Empire. Their affair was so tumultuous, they negotiated an arrangement that allowed them to share power while they were free to take other lovers. But they never stopped loving each other, and their enduring relationship... Read more >
Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $20.00
Prince Grigory Potemkin was Catherine the Great's lover, secret husband, and partner in ruling the Russian Empire. Their affair was so tumultuous, they negotiated an arrangement that allowed them to share power while they were free to take other lovers. But they never stopped loving each other, and their enduring relationship... Read more >
Stalin
The Court of the Red Tsar
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $19.95
This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore gives us the everyday details of a monstrous life.
We see Stalin playing... Read more >
The Court of the Red Tsar
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $19.95
This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore gives us the everyday details of a monstrous life.
We see Stalin playing... Read more >
Stalin
The Court of the Red Tsar
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: eBook, 848 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $19.95
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The Court of the Red Tsar
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: eBook, 848 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $19.95
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Young Stalin
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $18.00
Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image: How Stalin became Stalin.
“Brilliantly researched. . ... Read more >
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $18.00
Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image: How Stalin became Stalin.
“Brilliantly researched. . ... Read more >
Young Stalin
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $30.00
A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar—the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil.
What makes a Stalin? What formed this merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic... Read more >
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $30.00
A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar—the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil.
What makes a Stalin? What formed this merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic... Read more >
Young Stalin
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: eBook, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 13, 2010
Price: $18.00
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Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: eBook, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 13, 2010
Price: $18.00
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