Simon Sebag Montefiore





Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965) is a British journalist and historian specializing in Russian History.

Catherine the Great & Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper, and Marsh Biography Prizes. Young Stalin won the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature, the Costa Biography Prize, the LA Times Book Prize in Biography and Le Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards.


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I have loved writing my novel Sashenka.I have spent the last ten years writing history books on Russian rulers.Each workwas based on minute and colossal archival research in Russia: first the biography of Prince Potemkin and Catherine the Great, and then two studies of Stalin: one on his life before the revolution and the other a portrait of Stalin in power. They were huge enterprises and I was... read more »
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Average rating: 4.02 · 2,807 ratings · 476 reviews · 19 distinct works
Stalin: The Court of the Re...
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 908 ratings — published 2003 — 23 editions
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Young Stalin
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 722 ratings — published 2007 — 29 editions
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Sashenka
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 537 ratings — published 2008 — 22 editions
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Jerusalem: The Biography
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 2011 — 21 editions
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Monsters
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
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Speeches That Changed the W...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions
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Potemkin: Catherine the Gre...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 60 ratings8 editions
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101 World Heroes
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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My Affair With Stalin
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Stalin 1939-1953
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004
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