Radzinsky, Edvard, translated by H. T. Willetts, — Stalin: the first in-depth biography based on explosive documents from Russia's secret archives.

NY, Doubleday, (1996). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. This picture of the Soviet strongman is more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or. imagined. Stalin deliberately shrouded the details of his life in tremendous secrecy, eliminatinig old colleagues-in-arms, personally directing purges of archives, and creating a mythology completely unchallenged until now. Stalin's epic quest for domination at last revealed - perhaps the greatest mass murderer in Western history solved. Slight edge wear.