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The Court of the Red Tsar

by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Author) (edit contributors)

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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 ?lan, Simon Sebag Montefiore gives us the... read more

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Nadya and Stalin had been married for fourteen years but it extended deeper and longer than that, so steeped was their marriage in Bolshevism.

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Illustrations
Stalin's Family Tree
Maps
Introduction and Acknowledgements
List of Characters
Prologue: The Holiday Dinner: 8 November 1932

PART ONE
THAT WONDERFUL TIME: STALIN AND NADYA, 1878-1932
1. The Georgian and the Schoolgirl
2. The Kremlin Family
3. The Charmer
4. Famine and the Country Set: Stalin at the Weekend
5. Holidays and Hell: The Politburo at the Seaside
6. Trains Full of Corpses: Love, Death and Hysteria
7. Stalin the Intellectual

PART TWO
THE JOLLY FELLOWS: STALIN AND KIROV, 1932-1934
8. The Funeral
9. The Omnipotent Widower and His Loving Family: Sergo the Bolshevik Prince
10. Spoiled Victory: Kirov, the Plot and the Seventeenth Congress
11. Assassination of the Favourite

PART THREE
ON THE BRINK, 1934-1936
12. "I'm Orphaned": The Connoisseur of Funerals
13. A Secret Friendship: The Rose of Novgorod
14. The Dwarf Rises; Casanova Falls
15. The Tsar Rides the Metro
16. Take Your Partners; Mount Your Prisoners: The Show Trial

PART FOUR
SLAUGHTER: YEZHOV THE POISON DWARF, 1937-1938
17. The Executioner: Beria's Poison and Bukharin's Dosage
18. Sergo: Death of a "Perfect Bolshevik"
19. The Massacre of Generals, Fall of Yagoda and Death of a Mother
20. Blood Bath by Numbers
21. The Blackberry at Work and Play
22. Bloody Shirtsleeves: The Intimate Circle of Murder
23. Social Life in the Terror: The Wives and Children of the Magnates

PART FIVE
SLAUGHTER: BERIA ARRIVES, 1938-1939
24. Stalin's Jewesses and the Family in Danger
25. Beria and the Weariness of Hangmen
26. The Tragedy and Depravity of the Yezhovs
27. Death of the Stalin Family: A Strange Proposal and the Housekeeper

PART SIX
"THE GREAT GAME": HITLER AND STALIN, 1939-1941
28. The Carve-Up of Europe: Molotov, Ribbentrop and Stalin's Jewish Question
29. The Murder of the Wives
30. Molotov Cocktails: The Winter War and Kulik's Wife
31. Molotov Meets Hitler: Brinkmanship and Delusion
32. The Countdown: 22 June 1941

PART SEVEN
WAR: THE BUNGLING GENIUS, 1941-1942
33. Optimism and Breakdown
34. "Ferocious as a Dog": Zhdanov and the Siege of Leningrad
35. "Can You Hold Moscow"
36. Molotov in London, Mekhlis in the Crimea, Khrushchev in Collapse
37. Churchill Visits Stalin: Marlborough vs. Wellington
38. Stalingrad and the Caucasus: Beria and Kaganovich at War

PART EIGHT
WAR: THE TRIUMPHANT GENIUS, 1942-1945
39. The Supremo of Stalingrad
40. Sons and Daughters: Stalin's and the Politburo's Children at War
41. Stalin's Song Contest
42. Teheran: Roosevelt and Stalin
43. The Swaggering Conqueror: Yalta and Berlin

PART NINE
THE DANGEROUS GAME OF SUCCESSION, 1945-1949
44. The Bomb
45. Beria: Potentate, Husband, Father, Lover, Killer, Rapist
46. A Night in the Nocturnal Life of Joseph Vissarionovich: Tyranny by Movies and Dinners
47. Molotov's Chance: "You'll Do Anything When You're Drunk!"
48. Zhdanov the heir and Abakumov's Bloody Carpet
49. The Eclipse of Zhukov and the Looters of Europe: The Imperial Elite
50. "The Zionists Have Pulled One Over You!"
51. A Lonely Old Man on Holiday
52. Two Strange Deaths: The Yiddish Actor and the Heir Apparent

Part Ten:
The Lame Tiger, 1949-1953
53. Mrs. Molotov's Arrest
54. Murder and Marriage: The Leningrad Case
55. Mao, Stalin's Birthday and the Korean War
56. The Midget and the Killer Doctors: Beat, Beat and Beat Again!
57. Blind Kittens and Hippopotamuses: The Destruction of the Old Guard
58. "I Did Him In!: The Patient and His Trembling Doctors

Postscript
Source Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Glossary edit see section history

  • COMMUNISM: A POLITICAL FORM IN WHICH THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CONTROLS ALL OF ITS INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL AFFAIRS.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Simon Sebag Montefiore (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 1400042305
Page Count: 816

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