Stalin

With access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating and ruthless 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.