Stalin

About the photography

The Folio edition of Stalin is vividly illustrated with more than 100 colour and black-and-white images, some published for the first time. Candid pictures of the ‘court’ – smiling portraits of Stalin with his family, and oligarchs holidaying at their dachas, oblivious of their approaching fate – sit alongside powerful images of famine, forced labour, show trials and secret policemen. There are socialist realist paintings and propaganda posters, pictures of military parades and peace conferences, and vivid war photography. Many of the images are drawn from the author’s own collection or from the David King Archive at the Tate – an astonishing trove of over 150,000 photographs and publications that King collected from the communist East over his lifetime. With a stark geometric cover design in Soviet constructivist style, and a glowering red-and-black portrait of Stalin on the slipcase, this is an exceptional edition of Sebag Montefiore’s study in tyranny.

About the photography

The Folio edition of Stalin is vividly illustrated with more than 100 colour and black-and-white images, some published for the first time. Candid pictures of the ‘court’ – smiling portraits of Stalin with his family, and oligarchs holidaying at their dachas, oblivious of their approaching fate – sit alongside powerful images of famine, forced labour, show trials and secret policemen. There are socialist realist paintings and propaganda posters, pictures of military parades and peace conferences, and vivid war photography. Many of the images are drawn from the author’s own collection or from the David King Archive at the Tate – an astonishing trove of over 150,000 photographs and publications that King collected from the communist East over his lifetime. With a stark geometric cover design in Soviet constructivist style, and a glowering red-and-black portrait of Stalin on the slipcase, this is an exceptional edition of Sebag Montefiore’s study in tyranny.

About the photography

The Folio edition of Stalin is vividly illustrated with more than 100 colour and black-and-white images, some published for the first time. Candid pictures of the ‘court’ – smiling portraits of Stalin with his family, and oligarchs holidaying at their dachas, oblivious of their approaching fate – sit alongside powerful images of famine, forced labour, show trials and secret policemen. There are socialist realist paintings and propaganda posters, pictures of military parades and peace conferences, and vivid war photography. Many of the images are drawn from the author’s own collection or from the David King Archive at the Tate – an astonishing trove of over 150,000 photographs and publications that King collected from the communist East over his lifetime. With a stark geometric cover design in Soviet constructivist style, and a glowering red-and-black portrait of Stalin on the slipcase, this is an exceptional edition of Sebag Montefiore’s study in tyranny.

About the photography

The Folio edition of Stalin is vividly illustrated with more than 100 colour and black-and-white images, some published for the first time. Candid pictures of the ‘court’ – smiling portraits of Stalin with his family, and oligarchs holidaying at their dachas, oblivious of their approaching fate – sit alongside powerful images of famine, forced labour, show trials and secret policemen. There are socialist realist paintings and propaganda posters, pictures of military parades and peace conferences, and vivid war photography. Many of the images are drawn from the author’s own collection or from the David King Archive at the Tate – an astonishing trove of over 150,000 photographs and publications that King collected from the communist East over his lifetime. With a stark geometric cover design in Soviet constructivist style, and a glowering red-and-black portrait of Stalin on the slipcase, this is an exceptional edition of Sebag Montefiore’s study in tyranny.

About the photography

The Folio edition of Stalin is vividly illustrated with more than 100 colour and black-and-white images, some published for the first time. Candid pictures of the ‘court’ – smiling portraits of Stalin with his family, and oligarchs holidaying at their dachas, oblivious of their approaching fate – sit alongside powerful images of famine, forced labour, show trials and secret policemen. There are socialist realist paintings and propaganda posters, pictures of military parades and peace conferences, and vivid war photography. Many of the images are drawn from the author’s own collection or from the David King Archive at the Tate – an astonishing trove of over 150,000 photographs and publications that King collected from the communist East over his lifetime. With a stark geometric cover design in Soviet constructivist style, and a glowering red-and-black portrait of Stalin on the slipcase, this is an exceptional edition of Sebag Montefiore’s study in tyranny.