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Title: Stalin : The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia'sSecret Archives by Edvard Radzinsky ISBN: 0-385-47954-9 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 18 August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (56 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My students have always loved this stunning book
Comment: The seniors I teach in high school have used this book for five years, and it has never failed to impress them. Although assigned only about half the book, they never want to sell it used to the incoming seniors, and instead usually claim that part of their sumemr before college will be spent reading what they were not assigned. What does that tell you?
Radzinsky's unprecedented access to the heretofore secret archives of the Soviet Union, Communist Party, and Stalin give him unique insight into a man who tried his best to destroy the evidence of his life, including the here well-documented purges of his friends and allies. Not only using the archives, but also personal accounts provided by Russians who still remember Stalin, this book does the best job possible to bring this complicated dictator to life.
Each page is mesmerizing in its "usual" portrayal, only to be added to or debunked on the next as the "real" story comes out. This is very well-written, and very entertaining. It is the best book I have used to explain why Stalin became the heir to Lenin, and then how he stayed in power all those years.
Rating: 4
Summary: Stalin's Crimes Exposed
Comment: Radzinsky has presented an extensively researched and well-documented book on Josef Stalin's rise to power and his 25 year
bloody reign in the USSR. I was surprised by the sheer number of "Comrades" that were eliminated by Stalin, simply to instill
fear into the lives of all Soviet citizens. While the true death toll will never be known for sure, upwards of 20 million
of his own people were killed in order to appease "The Boss".
Radzinsky provides only glimpses of his children (mostly Svetlana) and his family life, but comments extensively on Stalin's close associates such as Molotov and Beria. The author's speculation regarding Stalin's uncharacteristic behavior when Hitler invaded the USSR in June 1941, and the mediocre performance of his armies leaves me wanting to know more about this time period (what if Moscow had fallen to the Nazis?) On the other hand, the sheer number of names and personalities presented in this work is overwhelming to those with only casual interest in Stalin's life. Perhaps the most telling event in Stalin's life was Radzinsky's account of how he lay dying in his room alone, for hours, because his comrades were so fearful of disturbing him and doctors were so fearful of treating him, that they dared not even knock on his door to
see why he had not arisen. (Was he poisened and deliberatly left to die a wretched death?) Ironically, Stalin's final pogram against Soviet Jews was scheduled to begin on the day he died - 3/5/53.
Thanks to Edvard Radzinsky for reminding us of who Stalin really was - even though we may never know why he was one the worst murders of recorded history.
Rating: 5
Summary: A suspenseful bio - a rare treat
Comment: This book packs a lot of communist history into an intriguing bio. Did you know Stalin was a Czarist spy? Did you know his approach to terror was an implementation of Lenin's theories and orders? Did you know he was starting another Jewish holocaust in the early '50s as a provocation to world war III with the West and justification for further terror behind the Iron Curtain? I didn't until I read/listened to this book. On top of all this, David McCallum's reading is the best I've ever heard by one man working alone. He ratchets up the suspense to higher and more chilling levels with only his voice. True, the book on tape uses background music in some places, but it's McCallum's skills as an orator that will have you unable to get of your car, sitting in your driveway, waiting to hear how Stalin commits another atrocity in the name of a utopian society.
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Title: Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service ISBN: 0674008286 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Hitler and Stalin : Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock ISBN: 0679729941 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Beria by Amy Knight ISBN: 0691010935 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 11 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Guerrilla Prince by Georgie Anne Geyer ISBN: 0740720643 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 07 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Last Tsar : The Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinsky ISBN: 0385469624 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 15 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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