Kyle Harrison
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Stalin — The Court of the Red Tsar
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
- Author
- Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 769
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Not a biography of Stalin so much as of his circle — the dachas, the drinking, the signed death lists — from archives and the families of the men around him.
Where I saw it: A reply to @typesfast’s question on X, June 5, 2025 — “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/typesfast/status/1930617097068912787
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- Joseph Stalin · Simon Sebag Montefiore · Russia · Power — where this sits in the corpus.