Simon Sebag Montefiore has written an intimate portrait of Stalin and his circle. He talks to Benedicte Page about the men who mixed fanaticism with flamboyance. Benedicte Page With the 50th ...

“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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Stalin’s Russia is set to be portrayed on the small screen after Episodes and Flack producer Hat Trick Productions optioned Simon Sebag Montefiore’s novel One Night in Winter. The book ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Reading this magisterial new biography of Stalin is like looking at a familiar object from an unfamiliar perspective. Mantegna's ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore's biography of Stalin is a large and ambitious overview—and underview—of the Soviet leader's life and epoch, drawn from an impressively wide array of Russian sources. In ...

Every one of Stalin's houses had its own private cinema, and in his last years, the cinema became not only his favourite entertainment but also a source of political inspiration. It was one of the ...

In One Night in Winter the golden children of parents who belong to the governing elite are suspected by Stalin and his secret police of being members of an anti-Soviet conspiracy. When taken in for ...

'Simon Sebag Montefiore On Stalin's Bloody Rise to Power' How did a young trainee priest from Georgia become a merciless dictator who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image? Historian and ...