Simon Sebag Montefiore On Stalin’s Bloody Rise to Power

’Simon Sebag Montefiore On Stalin’s Bloody Rise to Power’ How did a young trainee priest from Georgia become a merciless dictator who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image? Historian and bestselling author, Simon Sebag Montifiore, talks to Dan Snow about the rise of Joseph Stalin, a man whose regime of terror witnessed the death and suffering of tens of millions of people. Find out how Stalin climbed to the top of Soviet politics to emerge as Lenin’s heir, and hear how his extreme insecurity and paranoia shaped the way he ruled. #SimonSebagMontefiore #Stalin #HistoryHit Sign up to History Hit TV now and get 7 days free: