This book is the first in-depth biography based on explosive new documents from Russia's secret archives.
The details of Joseph Stalin's life and the Soviet Union's history under his stranglehold have long been shrouded in secrecy. In spite of the cover-up at the time of his monstrous crimes, many documents survived and now the Soviet presidential archives and Stalin's personal archives have been opened. Edvard Radzinsky has been given access to files that illuminate many of the mysteries of the Stalin myth and at last presents the full story of one of the most fascinating figures of this century.
