So Simon Sebag Montefiore has broken my heart yet again with a beautiful story about 20th century Russia/Soviet Union. This is the story of Sashenka starting in 1916 and ending when we find out in 1994 what happened to her in the end and to her husband and children. Sashenka is 16 in 1916, the da...
It's finally over!!!I usually really like these kinds of books but I just couldn't bring myself to like this one. I never liked Lenin or his minions and later Stalin, and I can't understand how any person wanted to be like them.I couldn't like Sashenka. She seemed too cold and idealistic through ...
Montefiore writes about Russia and Stalin's awful government alongside, in a distorted mirror sort of way, the lives of the elite Soviet men and women in Moscow. They are all linked by a school, their children, and their amazing lives of luxury amid a ruined, damaged Russia. The catalyst for the ...
ستالين الشاب زعيماً وشاعراً ولصاً وكاهناً وزير نساء في عام 2005 م نشر المؤرخ البريطاني سيمون سيباغ مونتيفيوري المتخصص في تاريخ الشرق الأوسط والتاريخ الروسي كتاباً يتناول حياة الطاغية الشهير ستالين بعنوان (ستالين: بلاط القيصر الأحمر)، معتبراً في كتابه هذا ستالين أحد أكثر الشخصيات التي صاغت شكل ا...