Edvard radzinsky stalin

  • Stalin, a biography by Edvard Radzinsky of Joseph Stalin, reflects the author's research in Russia's secret archives and consultation with living sources.
  • Książka Stalin: The First In-Depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives autorstwa Radzinsky Edvard, dostępna w Sklepie.
  • Radzinsky breaks down Stalin`s life story, into three segments.

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    Edvard Radzinsky Marian Schwartz
    Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create afascinating portrait of the monarch, and aminute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days."
    Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create afascinating portrait of the monarch, and aminute-by-minute
     
    From the bestselling author of Stalin and The Last Tsar comes The Rasputin File, a remarkable biography of the mystical monk and bizarre philanderer whose role in the demise of the Romanovs and the start of the revolution can only now be fully known.
    For almost a century, historians could only speculate about the role Grigory Rasputin played in the downfall of tsarist Russia. But in a lost file from the State Archives turned up, a file that contained the complete interrogations of Rasputin s inner circle. With this extensive and explicit amplification of the

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    Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives

    From the author of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has fully obtained: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin was a man for whom power was all, terror a useful weapon, and deceit a constant companion.

    As Radzinsky narrates the high drama of Stalin's epic quest for domination-first within the Communist Party, then over the Soviet Union and the world-he uncovers the startling truth about this most enigmatic of historical figures. Only now, in the post-Soviet era, can what was suppressed be told: Stalin's long-denied involvement with terrorism as a young revolutionary; the crucial importance of his misunderstood, behind-the-scenes role during

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    Stalin (Radzinsky book)

    Biography of Joseph Stalin

    Stalin, a biography by Edvard Radzinsky of Joseph Stalin, reflects the author's research in Russia's secret archives and consultation with living sources. Radzinsky was allowed to access some documents from the secret Soviet archives after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

    Radzinsky is a popular Russian playwright. He also wrote a bestselling history, The Last Czar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II (), and forty other popular histories, including others about the Russian Imperial family.

    Reception

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    Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of the New York Times describes this work as a dramatic, "bitterly condemnatory life of Stalin," based on Radzinsky's interviews and correspondence with numerous survivors of that era, as well as the author's research in newly opened and declassified Russian archives.[1] Lehmann-Haupt compares this to the bitterly angry tone of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago

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