TY - BOOK ID - 134918781 TI - Stalin : the court of the Red Tsar PY - 2014 SN - 9781780228358 178022835X PB - London Phoenix, an imprint of Orion Books DB - UniCat KW - Heads of state KW - Statesmen KW - Social conditions KW - Stalin, Joseph, KW - Friends and associates. KW - Soviet Union KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134918781 AB - There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great and her lover, prime minister and general Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty he trusted only until the next purge. ER -