Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

Once In Power, Stalin's Campaign To Succeed Lenin Required A Legitimate Heroic Career Which He Did Not Possess Because Of His Experience In What He Called 'the Dirty Business' Of Politics: This Could Not Be Told, Either Because It Was Too Gangsterish For A Great, Paternalistic Statesman Or Because It Was Too Georgian For A Russian Leader. His Solution Was A Clumsy But All-embracing Cult Of Personality That Invented, Distorted And Concealed The Truth. Ironically This Self-promotion Was So Grotesque That It Fanned Sparks, Sometimes Innocent Ones, Which Flared Up Into Colossal Anti-Stalin Conspiracy-theories. It Was Easy For His Political Opponents, And Later For Us Historians, To Believe That It Was All Invented And That He Had Done Nothing Much At All - Particularly Since Few Historians Had Researched In The Caucasus Where So Much Of His Early Career Took Place. An Anti-cult, As Erroneous As The Cult Itself, Grew Up Around These Conspiracy-theories.

Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes: Once In Power, Stalin's Campaign To Succeed Lenin Required A Legitimate Heroic Career Which He Did Not Possess Because Of

Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes: Once In Power, Stalin's Campaign To Succeed Lenin Required A Legitimate Heroic Career Which He Did Not Possess Because Of

Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes: Once In Power, Stalin's Campaign To Succeed Lenin Required A Legitimate Heroic Career Which He Did Not Possess Because Of

Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes: Once In Power, Stalin's Campaign To Succeed Lenin Required A Legitimate Heroic Career Which He Did Not Possess Because Of

Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes: Once In Power, Stalin's Campaign To Succeed Lenin Required A Legitimate Heroic Career Which He Did Not Possess Because Of

Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes: Once In Power, Stalin's Campaign To Succeed Lenin Required A Legitimate Heroic Career Which He Did Not Possess Because Of

Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes: Once In Power, Stalin's Campaign To Succeed Lenin Required A Legitimate Heroic Career Which He Did Not Possess Because Of

Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes: Once In Power, Stalin's Campaign To Succeed Lenin Required A Legitimate Heroic Career Which He Did Not Possess Because Of

Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes: Once In Power, Stalin's Campaign To Succeed Lenin Required A Legitimate Heroic Career Which He Did Not Possess Because Of

Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes: Once In Power, Stalin's Campaign To Succeed Lenin Required A Legitimate Heroic Career Which He Did Not Possess Because Of

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