One Night in Winter is full of redemptive love and inner freedom.' Evening Standard The novel's theme is Love: family love, youthful romance, adulterous passion. Stalin's chilling charisma is brilliantly realised. Montefiore weaves a tight, satisfying plot, delivering surprises to the last page. He has now completed his Moscow Trilogy of novels featuring Benya Golden and Comrade Satinov, Sashenka, Dashka and Fabiana. 'The Romanovs' is his latest history book. He read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, where he received his Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD). He has won prizes in both non-fiction and fiction.

'A thrilling work of fiction Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of the global bestsellers 'The Romanovs' and 'Jerusalem: the Biography,' 'Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar' and Young Stalin and the novels Sashenka and One Night in Winter and 'Red Sky at Noon.' His books are published in 48 languages and are worldwide bestsellers. Described by The New York Times as 'a meticulously researched, autoritative biography,' Young Stalin is essential reading for anyone interested in Russian history.Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of the global bestsellers 'The Romanovs' and 'Jerusalem: the Biography,' 'Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar' and Young Stalin and the novels Sashenka and One Night in Winter and 'Red Sky at Noon.' His books are published in 48 languages and are worldwide bestsellers. Here is the dramatic story of his friendships and hatreds, his many love affairs, his complicated relationship with the Tsarist secret police, and how he became the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image.

Admired as a romantic poet and trained as a priest, he found his true mission as a murderous revolutionary. Montefiore tells the story of a charismatic, darkly turbulent boy born into poverty, scarred by his upbringing but possessed of unusual talents. This revelatory account unveils how Stalin became Stalin, examining his shadowy journey from obscurity to power-from master historian Simon Sebag Montefiore.īased on ten years of research, Young Stalin-companion to the prizewinning Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar-is a brilliant prehistory of the USSR, a chronicle of the Revolution, and an intimate biography.

Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore