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Catherine the great and potemkin was shortlisted for the samuel johnson prize. Author of two novels and presenter of television documentaries, he is married with two children and lives in lond. The bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites. Born in 1965, he read history at gonville and caius college, cambridge. Simon sebag montefiore has put together a very adept, voluminous work of scholarship that is by far the most broadranging and far sighted work on stalin that this reader. Whilst informative and educational, it is also entertaining and inspiring. More cunningly, it tracks stalins manipulation of a utopian dream. I read many wonderful novels though i now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.
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