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But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.
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Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance.
Simon Sebag Montefiore The Romanovs: 1613-1918 aristocracy autocracy chance chronology democracy
Power is always personal: any study of a Western democratic leader today reveals that, even in a transparent system with its short periods in office, personalities shape administra…
Simon Sebag Montefiore The Romanovs: 1613-1918 aristocracy autocracy chronology dynasty history
Very few politicians, who have chosen a political career, can fulfill the aspirations and survive the strains of an elevated office that in a monarchy was filled so randomly. Each …
Simon Sebag Montefiore The Romanovs: 1613-1918 legitimacy magnetism politics sociology tradition
Marx wrote that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.' This was witty but far from true. History is never repeated, but it borrows, steals, echoes and command…
Simon Sebag Montefiore The Romanovs: 1613-1918 historiography history
It seems that Russia today — dominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong civic institutions especially after the shattering of its society by the Bols…
Simon Sebag Montefiore Young Stalin dictatorship future politics russia terrorism
Greatness needs courage (above all) and willpower, charisma, intelligence and creativity but it also demands characteristics that we often associate with the least admirable people…
Simon Sebag Montefiore Titans of History greatness madness
Stalin was always exceptional, even from childhood. We have relied on Trotsky’s unrecognizably prejudiced portrait for too long. The truth was different. Trotsky’s view tells us mo…
Simon Sebag Montefiore Young Stalin youth
Beneath the eerie calm of these unfathomable waters were deadly whirlpools of ambition, anger and unhappiness.
Simon Sebag Montefiore Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar dark
The formation of Stalin’s character is particularly important because the nature of his rule was so personal.
Simon Sebag Montefiore Young Stalin dictatorship personality

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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
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