“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 ...

Cosmo Jarvis, star of FX’s smash hit series “Shōgun,” will star as future Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in “Young Stalin.” Georgian-French helmer Géla Babluani (“13 Tzameti,” “Money”) has signed on to ...

When Josef Stalin finally succumbed to the stroke he so richly deserved, a distraught Pablo Neruda mourned the death of this “giant. … the noon, the maturity of man and the peoples.” Such attitudes ...

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 ...

'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 ...

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 ...

In April 1937, Bronka Poskrebysheva, the glamorous wife of Alexander Poskrebyshev, Stalin's chef de cabinet, arranged to meet Stalin alone at his dacha to plead for the life of her arrested brother.