Quotes by : Simon Sebag Montefiore

Power is always personal: any study of a Western democratic leader today reveals that, even in a transparent....

Stalin was always exceptional, even from childhood. We have relied on Trotsky’s unrecognizably prejudiced....

It seems that Russia today—dominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong....

Very few politicians, who have chosen a political career, can fulfill the aspirations and survive the....

But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand....

The formation of Stalin’s character is particularly important because the nature of his rule was so....

The murky world of terrorism is more relevant than ever today: terrorist organizations, whether Bolshevik....

Greatness needs courage (above all) and willpower, charisma, intelligence and creativity but it also....

Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so....

Lenin and Stalin created the idiosyncratic Soviet system in the image of their ruthless little circle....