An unprecedented insight into the most enigmatic of men thanks to the use of previously unavailable sources and interviews.

Rasputin: the last word

Edvard Radzinsky

Biographies & Memoirs

Book DescriptionRelease date: June 15, 1993Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days.

The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II

DOUBLEDAY

From the author 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, culminating in the infamous show trials of the 1930s; his secret dealings with Hitler, and how they backfired; and the horrifying plans he was 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 become, 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 was sacred in his pursuit of absolute might--and perhaps the greatest mass murderer in Western history--is solved. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Stalin

Historical

An account of the life, reign, and final days of the last  Russian tsar draws on Nicholas II's personal diaries, firsthand  accounts of the murder of the royal family, and other sources. Book  available.

History

Russia

Random House Audio |

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar

Free Press

Based upon long-lost contemporary documents, this biography presents a sensational account of the life of the Russian peasant mystic whose malign influence led to the downfall of the Romanovs.

Rasputin: The Last Word

Phoenix Paperbacks

The Rasputin File

Talese / Doubleday

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, Russian peasant, monk and mystic, exercised extraordinary and malign power over the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia and their haemophiliac son. His drunkenness, sexual excesses and nepotism - not to mention rumours that he was a German agent - led to his murder by a group of noblemen in December 1916. Mad monk or mystic, sham or shaman, few figures from contemporary history have captured the imagination like Rasputin. The enormous influence that this half-literate priest exerted over Tsarina Alexandra is one of history's great enigmas; one which the author of this text sets out to unravel. Edvard Radzinsky gained access to a range of hitherto undiscovered material, in particular the proceedings of a Russian government investigation in 1917 which includes a wealth of interviews with people who had dealings with Rasputin. His murder is described from a new angel, re-examining the various conspiracy theories and describing the moments leading up to the murder against the backdrop of pre-Revolution Bacchanalia in the imperial city.

Allen & Unwin Australia Pty. Ltd.

Stalin. Zhizn i smert

АSТ

Besedi s Sokratom.Teatr vremen Nerona i Seneki.Ioann muchitel.Taina Ioannova sina. ...and many more historical novels in one book.Text in Russian.1039 pages.

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Rasputin: the last word

The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II

Stalin

The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar

Rasputin: The Last Word

The Rasputin File

Rasputin: The Last Word

Stalin. Zhizn i smert

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