At 10:30 a.m. on the sultry morning of Wednesday, 26 June 1907, in the seething central square of Tiflis, a dashing mustachioed cavalry captain in boots and jodhpurs, wielding a big Circassian sabre, ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore has written an intimate portrait of Stalin and his circle. He talks to Benedicte Page about the men who mixed fanaticism with flamboyance. Benedicte Page With the 50th ...

EXCLUSIVE: Stalin’s Russia is set to be portrayed on the small screen after Episodes and Flack producer Hat Trick Productions optioned Simon Sebag Montefiore’s novel One Night in Winter. The book ...

In "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar," published in 2003 to international acclaim, British historian and novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore presented a macabre and revealing portrait of the private ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. London: One of the world’s leading Russia historians, Simon Sebag Montefiore, says Vladimir Putin is no madman. Instead, his invasion of ...

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. In ...

When Josef Stalin finally succumbed to the stroke he so richly deserved, a distraught Pablo Neruda mourned the death of this “giant. … the noon, the maturity of man and the peoples.” Such attitudes ...

That this zippy prequel to Stalin: The Court of the Red Czar is being made into a movie by Miramax is no surprise. The tale of a swashbuckling maverick, penned with the pace and structure of a ...