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| | book review | stalin |
 | | Paranoid, cynical and pragmatic, he was like a stone, an inscrutable, almost passive obstacle against which his often more intelligent enemies found themselves blunted and spent; the same silent, wordlessly lucid countenance that made him a virtual god in Russia while he lived. |
| | Radzinsky makes this scenario, so ironic as to be dramatically implausible from most perspectives, seem inevitable, Churchill little more than yet another great planet drawn irresistably into the orbit of this inscrutable cipher. |
| | Radzinsky’s admiration for Stalin, merely the admiration of one artist for another - moreover one who has been given access to a palette richer and larger than his - blurs the line between biography and unwitting hagiography. |
| www.rickmcginnis.com /books/radzinsky.htm (396 words) |
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