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From previously hidden royal diaries and letters, the testimony of the executioners, and the reminiscences of friends. A man of the 1960s, edvard radzinsky was born in moscow to the family of an intellectual. Edvard radzinsky is the author of the bestselling the last tsar and stalin, and one of russias most celebrated playwrights. Based on unprecedented access to a range of archives, including the presidents archive, the central party archive, and some kgb files, as well as interviews with survivors, radzinsky the last tsar, 1992 has created a stunning portrait of a man who. One event in the history of that statue seems comically symbolic of the stalin era.
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