Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

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FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2005

Copyright © 2003 by Simon Sebag Montefiore

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:

Montefiore, Simon Sebag [date]

Stalin: the court of the red tsar / by Simon Sebag Montefiore.

p. cm.

1. Stalin, Joseph, 1879–1953. 2. Heads of state—Soviet Union—Biography. 3. Soviet Union—History—1925–1953. I. Title.

DK268.S8M573 2004

947.085’2’092—dc22

2003027390

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