Stalin : The Court of the Red Tsar is a 2003 history book by Simon Sebag Montefiore . It primarily deals with the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin 's life and that of those around him from the late 1920s through to his death in 1953 , through the period of collectivization , the Moscow show trials , the purges , World War II and the beginning of the Cold War
purges
Great Purge
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar