Stalin. The first in-depth biography based on expolosive new documents from Russia's Secret Archives .

Radzinsky, Edvard

ISBN 10: 0385473974 / ISBN 13: 9780385473972

Editore: 1996. Ed. Doubleday., 1996

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• Titolo: Stalin. The first in-depth biography based on expolosive new documents from Russia's Secret Archives .
• Editore: 1996. Ed. Doubleday.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0385473974
• ISBN 13: 9780385473972
• Rilegatura: Rilegato

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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.

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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