Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes
Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.
But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.
Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance.
Beneath the eerie calm of these unfathomable waters were deadly whirlpools of ambition, anger and unhappiness.
The formation of Stalin’s character is particularly important because the nature of his rule was so personal.