Simon Sebag Montefiore - winner of the 2007 Costa Biography

Simon Sebag Montefiore, winner of the 2007 Costa Biography Award, talks about his book, Young Stalin.

This short film, commissioned by Costa Coffee, was shown at the Costa book of the Year awards ceremony in London on February 2008. The film made by Charles Turley at CTA Limited.

About the book:
Stalin, like Hitler, remains the personification of evil but also one of the creators of today's world. Based on massive research and astonishing new evidence in archives from Moscow to Georgia, Young Stalin is a chronicle of the Revolution, a pre-history of the USSR and an intimate biography unveiling the shadowy, adventurous journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who was to become the Red Tsar.

About the author:

Simon Sebag Montefiore is a historian and writer. Born in 1965 and educated at Harrow School and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, he spent much of the nineties travelling through the ex-Soviet Empire, particularly the Caucasus, Ukraine and Central Asia, writing widely on Russia, especially for The Sunday Times, The New York Times and The Spectator. Young Stalin is the prequel and companion to Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar which won the History Book of the Year Prize at the 2004 British Book Awards. He has also published Catherine the Great & Potemkin, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography Prizes, and 101 World Heroes; an illustrated selection of great men and women from history. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, novelist, and television presenter, Montefiore lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children. He is currently writing Jerusalem: the Biography, a fresh history of the Middle East.

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