Stalin (Radzinsky book)

Stalin, a 1997 biography by Edvard Radzinsky of Joseph Stalin, politician and head of the Soviet Union for decades, reflects the author's research in Russia's secret archives and consultation with living sources. The archives were opened and declassified in 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Radzinsky is a popular Russian playwright. He also wrote a bestselling history, The Last Czar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II (1992), and forty other popular histories, including others about the Russian Imperial family.

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