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In the court of the red tsar7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Montefiore (The Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin) is more interested in life at the top than at the bottom, so he includes hundreds of pages on Stalin's purges of top Communists, while devoting much less space to the forced collectivization of Soviet peasants that led to millions of deaths. One Night in Winter won the Political Novel of the Year Prize. ![]() He is also the author of the acclaimed novels Sashenka and One Night in Winter. His latest history is The Romanovs: 1613-1918. Jerusalem: The Biography was a global bestseller and won The Book of the Year Prize from the Jewish Book Council. Young Stalin won the LA Times Book Prize for Best Biography, the Costa Book Award, the Bruno Kreisky Award for Political Literature, and Le Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won History Book of the Year at the 2004 British Book Awards. Montefiore's first book Catherine the Great & Potemkin. He went on to work as a banker, a foreign affairs journalist, and a war correspondent. He read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he received his Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD). He was educated at Ludgrove School and Harrow School. ![]() He is a British historian, award winning author of history books and novels and television presenter. Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore was born on Jin London. ![]()
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