Stalin
The Court of the Red Tsar
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Stalin
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John Nettles
About this listen
Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year
Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize
This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar.
Based on groundbreaking research, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals in captivating detail the fear and betrayal, privilege and debauchery, family life and murderous cruelty of this secret world. Written with extraordinary narrative verve, this magnificent feat of scholarly research has become a classic of modern history writing. Showing how Stalin's triumphs and crimes were the product of his fanatical Marxism and his gifted but flawed character, this is an intimate portrait of a man as complicated and human as he was brutal and chilling.
Read by John Nettles
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Highly recommended. It's a shame Mr Nettles doesn't narrate 'The Romanovs.'
Superb
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Stalin is a monster as deprave and human as Hitler was, they both loved the power and the implementation of their ideas more than humans or individuals.
“Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?”
― Joseph Stalin
“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.”
― Joseph Stalin
We castigate anyone that wears a brown shirt and use the fascist salute but people still vote for people that consider this man a hero openly; they should be as shameful and repulsive as fascists, to believe in a system that wherever it has been imposed it has brought death and inequality in industrial levels, Communism is a dirty word smeared with death, blood and betrayal of the proletariat in the name of the state and Stalin was one of it prophets and disciples of death unashamedly so.
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
― Joseph Stalin
“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
― Joseph Stalin
“People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
― Joseph Stalin
And the perfect Orwellian example of doublethink:
“...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be blind. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline.”
― Joseph Stalin
This is a good book to put the first toe into a cold lake of blood and terror, a mild expose of evil and a restrained in its descriptions if anything it errs with Stalin into seeing it all too much as statistics and not crimes of individual horror.
Communist, fascist an equality in monstrosity.
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Fly on the wall view of Stalin's vicious court.
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Brilliant !
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Well told, thorough, insightful and a true insight into Stalin
Outstanding
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes. The audiobook is like a soap opera, the dynamics of stalin and his court and fantastic.What did you like best about this story?
A real insight into Stalin, the old bolsheviks and the upper echelons of the soviet state.What does John Nettles bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
An amazing narration. Top notch!If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
The greatest real soap opera of our timeAny additional comments?
Cant recommend this book enough, there are alot of characters but this is not overwhelming.The best book on Stalin
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Absolutely loved this book, more of a !!
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There were many sections I re listened to amazed at the account.
Being born in 1960 our school education failed to explain this to our generation, a lot had not been revealed but this is one of the best accounts I've found so far.
John Nettles simply excellent.
Fascinating
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