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Having gained access to secret documents in Russia’s archives, biographer Edvard Radzinsky wrote a comprehensive biography about Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) who, after dismantling the tsarist regime, became as powerful and cruel as any tsar who ever reigned in pre-Soviet Russia.* Stalin is estimated to have killed 20 million people, not including another 20 million who perished fighting during World War Two.

For 30 years, Stalin terrorized the U.S.S.R. as he engaged in mass arrests, implemented policies that resulted in wide-spread starvation, imprisoned millions in the notorious gulags, or concentration camps, and ordered the torture and executions of “enemies.”

Radzinsky remarked about Stalin, “His character and motives for his actions remain just as mysterious now as they were on the sunny March day of his death.” Radzinsky said that the “greatest riddle of Stalin’s reign” was why he destroyed the Leninist Party even after it became “completely subservient to him.” He stated, “The