Forecast: With a 75,000 first printing, this is likely to draw in Slavophiles and history buffs.

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 ...

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 ...

Popular historian Montefiore (Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar) presents a panoramic narrative of Jerusalem, organized chronologically and delivered with magisterial flair. Spanning eras from King ...

“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 ...