Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar  32098

  • Stalin Family Tree
  • Prologue: The Holiday Dinner: 8 November 1932
  • Part One: That Wonderful Time: Stalin and Nadya, 1878-1932
    1. The Georgian and the Schoolgirl
    2. The Kremlin Family
    3. The Charmer
    4. Famine and the Country Set: Stalin at the Weekend
    5. Holidays and Hell: The Politburo at the Seaside
    6. Trains Full of Corpses: Love, Death and Hysteria
    7. Stalin the Intellectual
  • Part Two: The Jolly Fellows: Stalin and Kirov, 1932-1934
    1. The Funeral
    2. The Omnipotent Widower and his Loving Family: Sergo the Bolshevik Prince
    3. Spoiled Victory: Kirov, the Plot and the Seventeenth Congress
    4. Assassination of the Favourite
  • Part Three: On the Brink, 1934-1936
    1. ‘I’m Orphaned’: the Connoisseur of Funerals
    2. A Secret Friendship: The Rose of Novgorod
    3. The Dwarf Rises; Casanova Falls
    4. The Tsar Rides the Metro
    5. Take Your Partners; Mount Your Prisoners; the Show Trial
  • Part Four: Slaughter: Yezhov, the Poison Dwarf, 1937-1938
    1. The Executioner: Beria’s Poison and Bukharin’s Dosage
    2. Sergo: Death of a ‘Perfect Bolshevik’
    3. The Massacre of the Generals, Fall of Yagoda, and Death of a Mother
    4. Blood Bath by Numbers
    5. ‘The Blackberry’ at Work and Play
    6. Bloody Shirtsleeves: The Intimate Circle of Murder
    7. Social Life in the Terror: the Wives and Children of the Magnates
  • Part Five: Slaughter: Beria Arrives, 1938-1939
    1. Stalin’s Jewesses and the Family in Danger
    2. Beria and the Weariness of Hangmen
    3. The Tragedy and Depravity of the Yezhovs
    4. Death of the Stalin Family: a Strange Proposal and the Housekeeper
  • Part Six: ‘The Great Game’: Hitler and Stalin, 1939-1941
    1. The Carve-up of Europe: Molotov, Ribbentrop and Stalin’s Jewish Question
    2. The Murder of the Wives
    3. Molotov Cocktails: the Winter War and Kulik’s Wife
    4. Molotov Meets Hitler: Brinkmanship and Delusion
    5. The Countdown: 22 June 1941
  • Part Seven: War: The Bungling Genius, 1941-1942
    1. Optimism and Breakdown
    2. ‘Ferocious as a Dog’: Zhdanov and the Siege of Leningrad
    3. ‘Can You Hold Moscow?’
    4. Molotov in London, Mekhlis in the Crimea, Kruschchev in Collapse
    5. Churchill Visits Stalin: Marlborough vs Wellington
    6. Stalingrad and the Caucasus: Beria and Kaganovich at War
  • Part Eight: War: The Triumphant Genius, 1942-1945
    1. The Supremo of Stalingrad
    2. Sons and Daughters: Stalin and the Politburo’s Children at War
    3. Stalin’s Song Contest
    4. Teheran: Roosevelt and Stalin
    5. The Swaggering Conqueror: Yalta and Berlin
  • Part Nine: The Dangerous Game of Succession, 1945-1949
    1. The Bomb
    2. Beria: Potentate, Husbamd, Father, Lover, Killer, Rapist
    3. A Night in the Nocturnal Life of Joseph Vissarionovich: Tyranny by Movies and Dinners
    4. Molotov’s Chance: ‘You’ll Do Anything When You’re Drunk!’
    5. Zhdanov the Heir and Abakumov’s Bloody Carpet
    6. The Eclipse of Zhukov and the Looters of Europe: the Imperial Elite
    7. ‘The Zionists Have Pulled One Over You!’
    8. A Lonely Old Man on Holiday
    9. Two Strange Deaths: the Yiddish Actor and the Heir Apparent
  • Part Ten: The Lame Tiger, 1949-1953
    1. Mrs Molotov’s Arrest
    2. Murder and Marriage: the Leningrad Case
    3. Mao, Stalin’s Birthday and the Korean War
    4. The Midget and the Killer Doctors: Beat, Beat and Beat Again!
    5. Blind Kittens and Hippopotamuses: the Destruction of the Old Guard
    6. ‘I Did Him In!’: the Patient and His Trembling Doctors
  • Postscript
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