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Simon Sebag Montefiore

STALIN

The Court of the Red Tsar

Praise for Simon Sebag Montefiore’s STALIN

Introduction and Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

List of Characters

Prologue

THE HOLIDAY DINNER

8 November 1932

Part One

THAT WONDERFUL TIME

Stalin and Nadya

1878–1932

1. THE GEORGIAN AND THE SCHOOLGIRL

2. THE KREMLIN FAMILY

3. THE CHARMER

4. FAMINE AND THE COUNTRY SET

Stalin at the Weekend

5. HOLIDAYS AND HELL

The Politburo at the Seaside

6. TRAINS FULL OF CORPSES

Love, Death and Hysteria

7. STALIN THE INTELLECTUAL

Part Two

THE JOLLY FELLOWS

Stalin and Kirov

1932–1934

8. THE FUNERAL

9. THE OMNIPOTENT WIDOWER AND HIS LOVING FAMILY

Sergo the Bolshevik Prince

10. SPOILED VICTORY

Kirov, the Plot and the Seventeenth Congress

11. ASSASSINATION OF THE FAVOURITE

Part Three

ON THE BRINK

1934–1936

12. “I’M ORPHANED”

The Connoisseur of Funerals

13. A SECRET FRIENDSHIP

The Rose of Novgorod

14. THE DWARF RISES; CASANOVA FALLS

15. THE TSAR RIDES THE METRO

16. TAKE YOUR PARTNERS; MOUNT YOUR PRISONERS

The Show Trial

Part Four

SLAUGHTER

Yezhov the Poison Dwarf

1937–1938

17. THE EXECUTIONER

Beria’s Poison and Bukharin’s Dosage

18. SERGO: DEATH OF A “PERFECT BOLSHEVIK”

19. THE MASSACRE OF GENERALS, FALL OF YAGODA AND DEATH OF A MOTHER

20. BLOOD BATH BY NUMBERS

21. THE BLACKBERRY AT WORK AND PLAY

22. BLOODY SHIRTSLEEVES

The Intimate Circle of Murder

23. SOCIAL LIFE IN THE TERROR

The Wives and Children of the Magnates

Part Five

SLAUGHTER

Beria Arrives

1938–1939

24. STALIN’S JEWESSES AND THE FAMILY IN DANGER

25. BERIA AND THE WEARINESS OF HANGMEN

26. THE TRAGEDY AND DEPRAVITY OF THE YEZHOVS

27. DEATH OF THE STALIN FAMILY

A Strange Proposal and the Housekeeper

Part Six

THE GREAT GAME

Hitler and Stalin

1939–1941

28. THE CARVE-UP OF EUROPE

Molotov, Ribbentrop and Stalin’s Jewish Question

29. THE MURDER OF THE WIVES

30. MOLOTOV COCKTAILS

The Winter War and Kulik’s Wife

31. MOLOTOV MEETS HITLER

Brinkmanship and Delusion

32. THE COUNTDOWN

22 June 1941

Part Seven

WAR

The Bungling Genius

1941–1942

33. OPTIMISM AND BREAKDOWN

34. “FEROCIOUS AS A DOG”

Zhdanov and the Siege of Leningrad

35. “CAN YOU HOLD MOSCOW?”

36. MOLOTOV IN LONDON, MEKHLIS IN THE CRIMEA, KHRUSHCHEV IN COLLAPSE

37. CHURCHILL VISITS STALIN

Marlborough vs. Wellington

38. STALINGRAD AND THE CAUCASUS

Beria and Kaganovich at War

Part Eight

WAR

The Triumphant Genius

1942–1945

39. THE SUPREMO OF STALINGRAD

40. SONS AND DAUGHTERS

Stalin’s and the Politburo’s Children at War

41. STALIN’S SONG CONTEST

42. TEHERAN

Roosevelt and Stalin

43. THE SWAGGERING CONQUEROR

Yalta and Berlin

Part Nine

THE DANGEROUS GAME OF SUCCESSION

1945–1949

44. THE BOMB

45. BERIA: POTENTATE, HUSBAND, FATHER, LOVER, KILLER, RAPIST

46. A NIGHT IN THE NOCTURNAL LIFE OF JOSEPH VISSARIONOVICH

Tyranny by Movies and Dinners

47. MOLOTOV’S CHANCE

“You’ll Do Anything When You’re Drunk!”

48. ZHDANOV THE HEIR AND ABAKUMOV’S BLOODY CARPET

49. THE ECLIPSE OF ZHUKOV AND THE LOOTERS OF EUROPE

The Imperial Elite

50. “THE ZIONISTS HAVE PULLED ONE OVER YOU!”

51. A LONELY OLD MAN ON HOLIDAY

52. TWO STRANGE DEATHS

The Yiddish Actor and the Heir Apparent

Part Ten

THE LAME TIGER

1949–1953

53. MRS. MOLOTOV’S ARREST

54. MURDER AND MARRIAGE

The Leningrad Case

55. MAO, STALIN’S BIRTHDAY AND THE KOREAN WAR

56. THE MIDGET AND THE KILLER DOCTORS

Beat, Beat and Beat Again!

57. BLIND KITTENS AND HIPPOPOTAMUSES

The Destruction of the Old Guard

58. “I DID HIM IN!”

The Patient and His Trembling Doctors

Postscript

Source Notes

A NOTE ON SOURCES AND SPELLING

JOURNALS CITED

ABBREVIATIONS OF NAMES OF ARCHIVES CITED

PROLOGUE: THE HOLIDAY DINNER

1: THE GEORGIAN AND THE SCHOOLGIRL

2: THE KREMLIN FAMILY

3: THE CHARMER

4: FAMINE AND THE COUNTRY SET

5: HOLIDAYS AND HELL

6: TRAINS FULL OF CORPSES

7: STALIN THE INTELLECTUAL

8: THE FUNERAL

9: THE OMNIPOTENT WIDOWER AND HIS LOVING FAMILY

10: SPOILED VICTORY

11: ASSASSINATION OF THE FAVOURITE

12: “I’M ORPHANED”

13: A SECRET FRIENDSHIP

14: THE DWARF RISES; CASANOVA FALLS

15: THE TSAR RIDES THE METRO

16: TAKE YOUR PARTNERS; MOUNT YOUR PRISONERS

17: THE EXECUTIONER

18: SERGO: DEATH OF A “PERFECT BOLSHEVIK”

19: THE MASSACRE OF GENERALS, FALL OF YAGODA AND DEATH OF A MOTHER

20: BLOOD BATH BY NUMBERS

21: THE BLACKBERRY AT WORK AND PLAY

22: BLOODY SHIRTSLEEVES

23: SOCIAL LIFE IN THE TERROR

24: STALIN’S JEWESSES AND THE FAMILY IN DANGER

25: BERIA AND THE WEARINESS OF HANGMEN

26: THE TRAGEDY AND DEPRAVITY OF THE YEZHOVS

27: DEATH OF THE STALIN FAMILY

28: THE CARVE-UP OF EUROPE

29: THE MURDER OF THE WIVES

30: MOLOTOV COCKTAILS

31: MOLOTOV MEETS HITLER

32: THE COUNTDOWN

33: OPTIMISM AND BREAKDOWN

34: “FEROCIOUS AS A DOG”

35: “CAN YOU HOLD MOSCOW?”

36: MOLOTOV IN LONDON, MEKHLIS IN THE CRIMEA, KHRUSHCHEV IN COLLAPSE

37: CHURCHILL VISITS STALIN

38: STALINGRAD AND THE CAUCASUS

39: THE SUPREMO OF STALINGRAD

40: SONS AND DAUGHTERS

41: STALIN’S SONG CONTEST

42: TEHERAN

43: THE SWAGGERING CONQUEROR

44: THE BOMB

45: BERIA: POTENTATE, HUSBAND, FATHER, LOVER, KILLER, RAPIST

46: A NIGHT IN THE NOCTURNAL LIFE OF JOSEPH VISSARIONOVICH

47: MOLOTOV’S CHANCE

48: ZHDANOV THE HEIR AND ABAKUMOV’S BLOODY CARPET

49: THE ECLIPSE OF ZHUKOV AND THE LOOTERS OF EUROPE

50: “THE ZIONISTS HAVE PULLED ONE OVER YOU!”

51: A LONELY OLD MAN ON HOLIDAY

52: TWO STRANGE DEATHS

53: MRS. MOLOTOV’S ARREST

54: MURDER AND MARRIAGE

55: MAO, STALIN’S BIRTHDAY AND THE KOREAN WAR

56: THE MIDGET AND THE KILLER DOCTORS

57: BLIND KITTENS AND HIPPOPOTAMUSES

58: “I DID HIM IN!”

POSTSCRIPT

Select Bibliography

PRIMARY

L. P. BERIA

W. S. CHURCHILL

L. M. KAGANOVICH

N. S. KHRUSHCHEV

A. I. MIKOYAN

V. M. MOLOTOV

J. V. STALIN

N. S. VLASIK

K. E. VOROSHILOV

G. YAGODA

A. A. ZHDANOV

G. K. ZHUKOV

SECONDARY

Illustrations

1929–1934

1934–1941

1941–1945

1945–1953

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