“Young Stalin,” Simon Sebag Montefiore’s biography chronicling the life of Joseph Stalin as a bank-robbing gangster in pre-revolutionary Russia, is being adapted for film. The feature is being ...

Cosmo Jarvis, star of FX’s smash hit series “Shōgun,” will star as future Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in “Young Stalin.” Georgian-French helmer Géla Babluani (“13 Tzameti,” “Money”) has signed on to ...

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 ...

For over 45 minutes, Simon Sebag Montefiore, best-selling historian who is often accused (or credited, depending on which side you are on) for '˜humanisng' Stalin, held a crowd of a few hundreds in ...

Russian historian and author Montefiore presents an exciting, exemplary biography of the nondescript peasant boy who would become the most ruthless leader in Soviet history, a prequel of sorts to his ...

In April 1937, Bronka Poskrebysheva, the glamorous wife of Alexander Poskrebyshev, Stalin's chef de cabinet, arranged to meet Stalin alone at his dacha to plead for the life of her arrested brother.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Simon Sebag Montefiore is an Author with six videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2004 Booknotes. Most appearances with Brian Lamb (3). Most common ...

Ovid once wrote that dripping water will hollow a stone, and time can erode memory with similar ease. Josef Stalin’s legacy as the twentieth century’s bloodiest dictator should have been cemented by ...