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

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From the writer of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has fully obtained: the facts. Granted privileged get right of entry to 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 used to be a man for whom power used to be 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 used to be suppressed be told: Stalin’s long-denied involvement with terrorism as a young revolutionary; the a very powerful importance of his misunderstood, at the back of-the-scenes role all through the October Revolution; his continuously hostile relationship with Lenin; the main points of his organization of terror, culminating in the infamous show trials of the 1930s; his secret dealings with Hitler, and how they backfired; and the horrifying plans he used to be making before his death to send the Soviet Union’s Jews to concentration camps-tantamount to a potential second Holocaust. Radzinsky also takes an intimate look at Stalin’s private life, marked by his turbulent relationship with his wife Nadezhda, and recreates the circumstances that led to her suicide.

As he did in The Last Tsar, Radzinsky thrillingly brings the past to life. The Kremlin intrigues, the ceaseless round of double-dealing and back-stabbing, the private worlds of the Soviet Empire’s ruling class-all develop into, in Radzinsky’s hands, as gripping and powerful as the great Russian sagas. And the riddle of that most cold-blooded of leaders, a man for whom nothing used to be sacred in his pursuit of absolute might–and possibly the greatest mass murderer in Western history–is solved.
Granted privileged get right of entry to to Russia’s secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky has broken down the iron curtain of myth, secrecy and lies that has surrounded Stalin’s life and career, painting a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined.

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