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Simon Sebag Montefiore

British Historian

Born: Jun 27, 1965

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Russia is so feudal in its system of patronage and reward that it is virtually impossible for a leader to hand over power without controlling his successor or at least receiving an exemption from prosecution - something Mr. Putin granted his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, in 1999. Simon Sebag Montefiore

Impossible Reward Power Leader Controlling Virtually System Russia Something Putin Prosecution Over Exemption Without Least His Hand Feudal Predecessor Patronage Successor Granted Receiving

Unlike monarchs, who pass power to their heirs at the moment of death to ensure the survival of the regime, tyrants must simply survive as long as possible. Simon Sebag Montefiore

Death Survival Long Power Unlike Tyrants Ensure Possible Must Simply Pass Survive Regime Heirs Moment Who Monarchs

The Russian Revolution mobilized a popular passion across the world based on Marxism-Leninism, fueled by messianic zeal. It was, perhaps, after the three Abrahamic religions, the greatest millenarian rapture of human history. Simon Sebag Montefiore

History World Passion Three Revolution Religions Rapture Russian Perhaps Greatest Human After Fueled Human History Across Popular Zeal Based

Bolshevism was a mind-set, an idiosyncratic culture with an intolerant paranoid wordview obsessed with abstruse Marxist ideology. Simon Sebag Montefiore

Culture Ideology Mind-Set Intolerant Paranoid Marxist Obsessed Bolshevism

In 1942, the Germans were running out of fuel. They were advancing so fast across the grasslands, the hot grasslands of south Russia, and the Russians were running out of tanks. And so both of them turned to cavalry, and there were great cavalry battles on the grasslands. Simon Sebag Montefiore

Great Battles Out Running Russia Russians Both Hot Advancing Tanks Were Cavalry South Germans Them Fuel Turned Across Fast

Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the Great or Jerusalem, I spend endless hours doing vast amounts of research. But it ends up being based on the same principle as all writing about people: and that is curiosity! Simon Sebag Montefiore

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It's the mix of the trivial and the great events that make up history. It's the low things about high people that make it fascinating, and that's why it would be a shame to exclude the trivial things. That mixing up is not just at the heart of history. It's at the heart of how to live a great life. Simon Sebag Montefiore

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