Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Bank Robbery At 10:30 a.m. on the sultry morning of Wednesday, 26 June 1907, in the seething central square of Tiflis, a dashing mustachioed cavalry ...

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 ...

In "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar," published in 2003 to international acclaim, British historian and novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore presented a macabre and revealing portrait of the private ...

London: One of the world’s leading Russia historians, Simon Sebag Montefiore, says Vladimir Putin is no madman. Instead, his invasion of Ukraine is a miscalculated gamble motivated by a desire to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ghost, by Robert Harris. Never mind the effusions of Cherie and counter-attacks of Alastair Campbell, Robert Harris's quickly produced thriller about the nameless ghostwriter to Britain's former ...

That this zippy prequel to Stalin: The Court of the Red Czar is being made into a movie by Miramax is no surprise. The tale of a swashbuckling maverick, penned with the pace and structure of a ...