How long does it take to read Stalin?
The Court of the Red Tsar
Stalin by Simon Sebag-Montefiore takes about 14 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 6 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2003. 769 pages, about 211,475 words.
29 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The fascination with evil; that is how I describe reading this book. Because the main character - Josyp Stalin - fascinated like a snake. His evil is unwavering; from the early 1920's until his death in 1953; Stalin plots, deceives, fools, liquidates, anyone he feels threatened by, or annoyed with; whether one person or millions of persons. This book reveals the personal Stalin - his private life, family life, likes and dislikes, paranoia, psychoticism, rage, and guilt - his private dinners while on vacation in the Crimea and Georgia; his conversations with the Politburo members who lived in fear of their lives from Stalin and totally bowed down before him, like Hitler's inner circle, and were constantly being murdered by Stalin and replaced with more sycophants. It is full of interesting history and very readable; but the fascinatingly evil character of Josyp Stalin holds your attention until his face turns black while dying on the sofa of his villa outside Moscow; before he could bring to fruition his murdering of countless more innocent people in his self-created "Doctor's Plot." In the end, Stalin fell into his own trap, and helplessly died like all his innocent victims in the tens of millions.
Subjects: Biography, Head of state, History, Politics and government., Heads of state, Politics and government
