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Praise for Simon Sebag Montefiore’s STALIN

Introduction and Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

List of Characters

Prologue
THE HOLIDAY DINNER
8 November 1932

Part One
THAT WONDERFUL TIME
Stalin and Nadya
1878–1932

1. THE GEORGIAN AND THE SCHOOLGIRL

2. THE KREMLIN FAMILY

3. THE CHARMER

4. FAMINE AND THE COUNTRY SET
Stalin at the Weekend

5. HOLIDAYS AND HELL
The Politburo at the Seaside

6. TRAINS FULL OF CORPSES
Love, Death and Hysteria

7. STALIN THE INTELLECTUAL

Part Two
THE JOLLY FELLOWS
Stalin and Kirov
1932–1934

8. THE FUNERAL

9. THE OMNIPOTENT WIDOWER AND HIS LOVING FAMILY
Sergo the Bolshevik Prince

10. SPOILED VICTORY
Kirov, the Plot and the Seventeenth Congress

11. ASSASSINATION OF THE FAVOURITE

Part Three
ON THE BRINK
1934–1936

12. “I’M ORPHANED”
The Connoisseur of Funerals

13. A SECRET FRIENDSHIP
The Rose of Novgorod

14. THE DWARF RISES; CASANOVA FALLS

15. THE TSAR RIDES THE METRO

16. TAKE YOUR PARTNERS; MOUNT YOUR PRISONERS
The Show Trial

Part Four
SLAUGHTER
Yezhov the Poison Dwarf
1937–1938

17. THE EXECUTIONER
Beria’s Poison and Bukharin’s Dosage

18. SERGO: DEATH OF A “PERFECT BOLSHEVIK”

19. THE MASSACRE OF GENERALS, FALL OF YAGODA AND DEATH OF A MOTHER

20. BLOOD BATH BY NUMBERS

21. THE BLACKBERRY AT WORK AND PLAY

22. BLOODY SHIRTSLEEVES
The Intimate Circle of Murder

23. SOCIAL LIFE IN THE TERROR
The Wives and Children of the Magnates

Part Five
SLAUGHTER
Beria Arrives
1938–1939

24. STALIN’S JEWESSES AND THE FAMILY IN DANGER

25. BERIA AND THE WEARINESS OF HANGMEN

26. THE TRAGEDY AND DEPRAVITY OF THE YEZHOVS

27. DEATH OF THE STALIN FAMILY
A Strange Proposal and the Housekeeper

Part Six
THE GREAT GAME
Hitler and Stalin
1939–1941

28. THE CARVE-UP OF EUROPE
Molotov, Ribbentrop and Stalin’s Jewish Question

29. THE MURDER OF THE WIVES

30. MOLOTOV COCKTAILS
The Winter War and Kulik’s Wife

31. MOLOTOV MEETS HITLER
Brinkmanship and Delusion

32. THE COUNTDOWN
22 June 1941

Part Seven
WAR
The Bungling Genius
1941–1942

33. OPTIMISM AND BREAKDOWN

34. “FEROCIOUS AS A DOG”
Zhdanov and the Siege of Leningrad

35. “CAN YOU HOLD MOSCOW?”

36. MOLOTOV IN LONDON, MEKHLIS IN THE CRIMEA, KHRUSHCHEV IN COLLAPSE

37. CHURCHILL VISITS STALIN
Marlborough vs. Wellington

38. STALINGRAD AND THE CAUCASUS
Beria and Kaganovich at War

Part Eight
WAR
The Triumphant Genius
1942–1945

39. THE SUPREMO OF STALINGRAD

40. SONS AND DAUGHTERS
Stalin’s and the Politburo’s Children at War

41. STALIN’S SONG CONTEST

42. TEHERAN
Roosevelt and Stalin

43. THE SWAGGERING CONQUEROR
Yalta and Berlin

Part Nine
THE DANGEROUS GAME OF SUCCESSION
1945–1949

44. THE BOMB

45. BERIA: POTENTATE, HUSBAND, FATHER, LOVER, KILLER, RAPIST

46. A NIGHT IN THE NOCTURNAL LIFE OF JOSEPH VISSARIONOVICH
Tyranny by Movies and Dinners

47. MOLOTOV’S CHANCE
“You’ll Do Anything When You’re Drunk!”

48. ZHDANOV THE HEIR AND ABAKUMOV’S BLOODY CARPET

49. THE ECLIPSE OF ZHUKOV AND THE LOOTERS OF EUROPE
The Imperial Elite

50. “THE ZIONISTS HAVE PULLED ONE OVER YOU!”

51. A LONELY OLD MAN ON HOLIDAY

52. TWO STRANGE DEATHS
The Yiddish Actor and the Heir Apparent

Part Ten
THE LAME TIGER
1949–1953

53. MRS. MOLOTOV’S ARREST

54. MURDER AND MARRIAGE
The Leningrad Case

55. MAO, STALIN’S BIRTHDAY AND THE KOREAN WAR

56. THE MIDGET AND THE KILLER DOCTORS
Beat, Beat and Beat Again!

57. BLIND KITTENS AND HIPPOPOTAMUSES
The Destruction of the Old Guard

58. “I DID HIM IN!”
The Patient and His Trembling Doctors

Postscript

Source Notes

A NOTE ON SOURCES AND SPELLING

JOURNALS CITED

ABBREVIATIONS OF NAMES OF ARCHIVES CITED

PROLOGUE: THE HOLIDAY DINNER

1: THE GEORGIAN AND THE SCHOOLGIRL

2: THE KREMLIN FAMILY

3: THE CHARMER

4: FAMINE AND THE COUNTRY SET

5: HOLIDAYS AND HELL

6: TRAINS FULL OF CORPSES

7: STALIN THE INTELLECTUAL

8: THE FUNERAL

9: THE OMNIPOTENT WIDOWER AND HIS LOVING FAMILY

10: SPOILED VICTORY

11: ASSASSINATION OF THE FAVOURITE

12: “I’M ORPHANED”

13: A SECRET FRIENDSHIP

14: THE DWARF RISES; CASANOVA FALLS

15: THE TSAR RIDES THE METRO

16: TAKE YOUR PARTNERS; MOUNT YOUR PRISONERS

17: THE EXECUTIONER

18: SERGO: DEATH OF A “PERFECT BOLSHEVIK”

19: THE MASSACRE OF GENERALS, FALL OF YAGODA AND DEATH OF A MOTHER

20: BLOOD BATH BY NUMBERS

21: THE BLACKBERRY AT WORK AND PLAY

22: BLOODY SHIRTSLEEVES

23: SOCIAL LIFE IN THE TERROR

24: STALIN’S JEWESSES AND THE FAMILY IN DANGER

25: BERIA AND THE WEARINESS OF HANGMEN

26: THE TRAGEDY AND DEPRAVITY OF THE YEZHOVS

27: DEATH OF THE STALIN FAMILY

28: THE CARVE-UP OF EUROPE

29: THE MURDER OF THE WIVES

30: MOLOTOV COCKTAILS

31: MOLOTOV MEETS HITLER

32: THE COUNTDOWN

33: OPTIMISM AND BREAKDOWN

34: “FEROCIOUS AS A DOG”

35: “CAN YOU HOLD MOSCOW?”

36: MOLOTOV IN LONDON, MEKHLIS IN THE CRIMEA, KHRUSHCHEV IN COLLAPSE

37: CHURCHILL VISITS STALIN

38: STALINGRAD AND THE CAUCASUS

39: THE SUPREMO OF STALINGRAD

40: SONS AND DAUGHTERS

41: STALIN’S SONG CONTEST

42: TEHERAN

43: THE SWAGGERING CONQUEROR

44: THE BOMB

45: BERIA: POTENTATE, HUSBAND, FATHER, LOVER, KILLER, RAPIST

46: A NIGHT IN THE NOCTURNAL LIFE OF JOSEPH VISSARIONOVICH

47: MOLOTOV’S CHANCE

48: ZHDANOV THE HEIR AND ABAKUMOV’S BLOODY CARPET

49: THE ECLIPSE OF ZHUKOV AND THE LOOTERS OF EUROPE

50: “THE ZIONISTS HAVE PULLED ONE OVER YOU!”

51: A LONELY OLD MAN ON HOLIDAY

52: TWO STRANGE DEATHS

53: MRS. MOLOTOV’S ARREST

54: MURDER AND MARRIAGE

55: MAO, STALIN’S BIRTHDAY AND THE KOREAN WAR

56: THE MIDGET AND THE KILLER DOCTORS

57: BLIND KITTENS AND HIPPOPOTAMUSES

58: “I DID HIM IN!”

POSTSCRIPT

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