Stalin

Edvard Radzinsky

ISBN 10: 0385473974 / ISBN 13: 9780385473972

Editore: Doubleday, 1996

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The author of the best-seller, The Last Tsar, presents a dramatic new version of the life of the Soviet dictator, based on recently recovered documents from Russia's secret archives, including the files of the former KGB. 60,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno: hor of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has entirely gotten hold of: 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 the October Revolution; his often hostile relationship with Lenin; the details of his organization of terror

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Titolo: Stalin
Casa editrice: Doubleday
Data di pubblicazione: 1996
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good