Simon Sebag Montefiore has written an intimate portrait of Stalin and his circle. He talks to Benedicte Page about the men who mixed fanaticism with flamboyance. Benedicte Page With the 50th ...

In "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar," published in 2003 to international acclaim, British historian and novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore presented a macabre and revealing portrait of the private ...

EXCLUSIVE: Stalin’s Russia is set to be portrayed on the small screen after Episodes and Flack producer Hat Trick Productions optioned Simon Sebag Montefiore’s novel One Night in Winter. The book ...

London: One of the world’s leading Russia historians, Simon Sebag Montefiore, says Vladimir Putin is no madman. Instead, his invasion of Ukraine is a miscalculated gamble motivated by a desire to ...

Few performances have captured the gravity of w–time leadership quite like Gary Oldman’s Oscar-winning turn as Winston ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore's biography of Stalin is a large and ambitious overview—and underview—of the Soviet leader's life and epoch, drawn from an impressively wide array of Russian sources. In ...

The Ghost, by Robert Harris. Never mind the effusions of Cherie and counter-attacks of Alastair Campbell, Robert Harris's quickly produced thriller about the nameless ghostwriter to Britain's former ...

EXCLUSIVE: 6th & Idaho, the production company founded by The Batman director Matt Reeves, is developing a feature film about ...

That this zippy prequel to Stalin: The Court of the Red Czar is being made into a movie by Miramax is no surprise. The tale of a swashbuckling maverick, penned with the pace and structure of a ...