Stalin - The Court of the Red Tsar written by Simon Sebag Montefiore performed by John Nettles on CD (Abridged)

There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore has unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty he trusted only until the next purge.