Pre-Owned One Night in Winter (Paperback) by Simon Sebag Montefiore

from kiwifortyniner

An enjoyable read and an insight into life in Russia

from robeik

To say that I enjoyed reading this book would be taking it too far. But it was an enriching experience. Set in the days after the collapse of the Third Reich, it focuses on the lives of a group of children and teenagers and their parents, and how the power of the Stalinist state pervaded the inti...

from Beamis12

Russia 1945, Stalin and his regime is firmly entrenched. What starts out as a student's game, quickly turns into much more, two deaths and a possible conspiracy to overthrow Stalin, and many students, the youngest aged six are quickly imprisoned. What makes this case so special to the investigati...

from k6gst

Good. I also enjoyed his popular history of Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar.

from Margitte123

1945. Moscow, Russia. Jubilance raged over the war-ravaged city. Hitler was defeated. New beginnings lay ahead for a nation with promises of greatness by Stalin. The hope for normalcy raised slowly from the ashes. The young Andrei Kurbsky saw "crumbling buildings, their façades peppered with shra...