ISBN10: 0385479549, ISBN13: 9780385479547, [publisher: Anchor Books] Softcover From the author of The Last Tsar. ranted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinksy paints a picture of the Soviet dictator as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin deliberately shrouded the details of his life in secrecy, eliminating old colleagues-in-arms, personally directing purges of archives, and creating a mythology that has gone almost entirely unchallenged - until now. Selected Bibliography, Index. Illus., b&w photos. 624p.
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]