Stalin

Despite Radzinksy’s obvious personal drive in this work, his first-hand account of a period in which he lived and his access to formerly closed archives lends great credibility to his portrait of a man Lenin said was “too rude” to take over. Nevertheless, Stalin was the logical extension of Marxism and Leninism and Radzinsky’s purpose is to portray the brutal leader warts and all. Radzinksy, a historian with a poet’s soul, argues that Stalin was a terrorist. He documents the leader’s long association with terror and how his desire for ultimate power definitely made him into a man whose ends were worth any means. Still, Radzinksy knows the enormity of his subject in history and uses his poetical/historical skills to announce the birth of Stalin via comparison with Prometheus lore, “This boy would play with the terrestrial globe as Amican had played with his stone ball” (Radzinsky 20).

In the modern error with terrorists like Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein using tactics as brutal as anything Stali

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s the circumstances that lead up to his wife’s suicide, and he does a good job of proving the long denied fact that Stalin was associated with terrorism and terrorist groups in his youth. So, too, he fleshes out a more significant role for Stalin when it comes to the October Revolution and exposes his organization of terror leading to the show trials. Despite Stalin’s support from Lenin, Radzinsky proves the two often clashed in a hostile manner. Perhaps more frightening, the author exposes how Stalin secretly worked with Hitler but failed to get anywhere when that plan blew up in his face. We are also witness to the reality that Stalin was secretly planning a second holocaust in which he would have sent the Soviet Union’s Jews to concentration camps, “According to rumor March 5 was the day on which the Jews would be loaded onto trucks...Everyone finally realized that this was indeed 1937 all over again” (Radzinsky 546, 536). The most shocking claim in the story is one that counter-evidence might refute. Radzinsky informs us that Stalin’s death may have been murder or perhaps he was left to die even though he could have been saved. That perhaps a political intrigue to keep Stalin from regaining health occurred in the form
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