Stalin the court of the red tsar Sebag Montefiore, Simon 1965- creator author. text bibliography biography Electronic books. Biography. collective biographies. Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. nyu 2004 2003 1st American ed. monographic eng print xxvii, 785 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm A biography of the Soviet dictator and the men and women who surrounded him focuses on the foundation of human, psychological, and physical supports that encouraged him through the early days of Communism, World War II, and the Great Terror. Prologue: The holiday dinner: 8 November 1932. -- That wonderful time: Stalin and Nadya, 1878-1932. The Georgian and the schoolgirl ; The Kremlin family ; The charmer ; Famine and the country set ; Holidays and hell: the Politburo at the seaside ; Trains full of corpses ; Stalin the intellectual. -- The jolly fellows: Stalin and Kirov, 1932-1934. The funeral ; The omnipotent widower and his loving family: Sergo the Bolshevik prince ; Spoiled victory: Kirov, the plot and the Seventeenth Congress ; Assassination of the favourite. -- On the brink, 1934-1936. "I'm orphaned": the connoisseur of funerals ; A secret friendship: The rose of Novgorod ; The dwarf rises; Casanova falls ; The tsar rides the Metro ; Take your partners; Mount your prisoners. -- Slaughter: Yezhov the poison dwarf, 1937-1938. The executioner: Beria's poison and Bukharin's dosage ; Sergo: death of a "perfect Bolshevik" ; The Massacre of generals, fall of Yagoda, and death of a mother ; Blood bath by numbers ; "The blackberry" at work and play ; Bloody shirtsleeves ; Social life in the Terror. -- Slaughter: Beria arrives, 1938-1939. Stalin's Jewesses and the family in danger ; Beria and the weariness of hangmen ; The tragedy and depravity of the Yezhovs ; Death of the Stalin family: a strange proposal and the housekeeper. -- "The great game": Hitler and Stalin, 1939-1941. The carve-up of Europe: Molotov, Ribbentrop and Stalin's Jewish question ; The murder of the wives ; Molotov cocktails: the Winter War and Kulik's wife ; Molotov meets Hitler: brinkmanship and delusion ; The countdown: 22 June 1941. -- War: the bungling genius, 1941-1942. Optimism and breakdown ; "Ferocious as a dog": Zhdanov and the Siege of Leningrad ; "Can you hold Moscow?" ; Molotov in London, Mekhlis in the Crimea, Khrushchev in collapse ; Churchill visits Stalin: Marlborough vs. Wellington ; Stalingrad and the Caucasus: Beria and Kaganovich at war. -- War: the triumphant genius, 1942-1945. The Supremo of Stalingrad ; Sons and daughters: Stalin and the Politburo's children at war ; Stalin's song contest ; Teheran: Roosevelt and Stalin ; The swaggering conqueror: Yalta and Berlin. -- The dangerous game of succession, 1945-1949. The bomb ; Beria: potentate, husband, father, lover, killer, rapist ; A night in the nocturnal life of Joseph Vissarionovich: tyranny by movies and dinners ; Molotov's chance: "You'll do anything when you're drunk!" ; Zhdanov the heir and Abakumov's bloody carpet ; The eclipse of Zhukov and the looters of Europe: the Imperial Elite ; "The Zionists have pulled one over you!" ; A lonely old man on holiday ; Two strange deaths: the Yiddish actor and heir apparent. -- The lame tiger, 1949-1953. Mrs. Molotov's arrest ; Murder and marriage: the Leningrad case ; Mao, Stalin's birthday and the Korean War ; The Midget and the killer doctors: Beat, beat and beat again! ; Blind kittens and hippopotamuses: the destruction of the Old Guard ; "I did him in!": the patient and his trembling doctors. by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Originally published: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003. Includes bibliographical references (pages 743-755) and index. e-ur--- Stalin, Joseph 1878-1953 Stalin, Joseph 1879-1953 Stalin, Joseph 1878-1953 Stalin, Joseph 1878-1953 Heads of state Soviet Union Biography Soviet Union History 1925-1953 Chefs d'État URSS Biographies URSS Histoire 1925-1953 Heads of state Soviet Union Dagelijks leven Kremlin Heads of state Russia Biography Soviet Union Politics and government 1925-1953 Soviet Union History 1925-1953 Soviet Union History Heads of State and Heads of government Biographies, memoirs and correspondance 1925-1953 fast DK268.S8 M573 2004 947.084/2/092 B 15.70 Stalin Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004 1st American ed. (OCoLC)656202444 1400042305 9781400042302 1842127268 9781842127261 2003027390 http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2003027390.html https://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003027390.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2003027390.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2003027390.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2003027390.html https://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003027390.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2003027390.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2003027390.html TAG TAGC DLC 031215 20240807185128.9 in00004809066 eng