7/5/2023 0 Comments Stalin simon sebag montefioreSebag Montefiore focuses on the human element (especially the family lives of the dictator, his associates, and his victims), generally treating the vast events of the era as scenery. Antonia Fraser, herself a fine biographer, called Sebag Montefiore's previous book, on the eighteenth-century Russian prince Grigory Potemkin, "a good racy historical read." Those words aptly describe his newest book as well, even though it makes no pretense of being a historical work, properly speaking. In particular the author has mined the rich memories and recorded the opinions of a number of the descendants of key historical figures-men such as Mikoyan and Khrushchev. Simon Sebag Montefiore's biography of Stalin is a large and ambitious overview-and underview-of the Soviet leader's life and epoch, drawn from an impressively wide array of Russian sources.
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