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As a piece of history, it's very impressive. It's clearly the result of a huge amount of research by Montefiore: h...more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 4 2 false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 04 11:19:36 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 29 16:54:51 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 5 1 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 12 11:58:24 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 12:05:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 5 1 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Mar 31 07:12:42 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 31 07:51:35 -0700 2007
A delicious stew of new documents and speculations, Stalin:TCOFTRS is the first actual bio ever produced on Stalin and his inner circle. Its an intensive, often meandering stu...more...]]> 1008332 184212756X 9781842127568 2 1 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180194217m/1008332.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008332.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 5 1 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 08:22:56 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 08:23:18 -0700 2007 Horror.... Stalin's circle were often good fathers, jolly friends and good company.
When on Party business they variously took personal part in atrocity and blithely orchestrated the cold blooded murder of millions of their own citizens.
Then they we...more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 4 1 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 17:15:11 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 10:13:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 5 1 true Sun Aug 17 05:12:50 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 06:12:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 3 1 false Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 05:53:38 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 00:57:06 -0700 2009
Update: I may write some more on this later. At times fascinating, heartbreaking, but also at times boring read. Montefiore has all kinds of juicy gossip, due to the opening up of old Soviet archives. He takes the new material and ...more...]]> 1008317 1400042305 9781400042302 4 1 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180193742m/1008317.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008317.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 5 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 20:02:21 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 15:39:54 -0800 2009 1
We learned precisely jack about Soviet history in school. Aside from the propaganda they ladled out, which ...more...]]> 694429 0753817667 9780753817667 8 2 Stalin 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177337116m/694429.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/694429.Stalin 4 1 false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 04:28:57 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 15:31:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 5 0 false Thu Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 08 14:29:02 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 14:36:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 5 0 false Mon Nov 09 06:44:53 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 06:49:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 4 1 false Sun Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 10:45:46 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 02:42:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 4 0 false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sat Apr 26 03:38:01 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 03:38:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 3 0 false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 22 17:54:52 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 07 19:22:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 5 0 false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 20:53:23 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 20:57:13 -0800 2009
There is a lot of shocking, systematic violence in this book.

This book reads as well as any novel, and is an incisive and startling por...more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 0 0 false Wed Feb 18 17:34:49 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 17:37:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 5 0 false Sun Jun 29 23:15:30 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 23:10:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 5 0 false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 08:49:44 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 08:57:33 -0700 2009 Twice
Stalins various cronies, victims, foes and deluded friends....appear in the book with astute comments on their motives, physical appearan...more...]]> 282108 1400076781 9781400076789 243 52 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173392907m/282108.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin_The_Court_of_the_Red_Tsar 5 0 false Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun May 31 22:29:47 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 22:34:56 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=282108