--- Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Radzinsky is a kook. Awful - it is not scholarship -
> it is theater. What he writes creates a lot of heat,
> but no light.
> >
I really enjoyed his Rasputin book, but can't vouch for its accuracy. His Stalin bio, on the other hand, was absolutely loony.
I just bought Zinoviev's Russkaya Tragediya, which looks great -- although his politics are wacky, he really is a brilliant novelist. Katastroika was hilarious ("Long Live Feudalism, Glorious Future of All Mankind!"), and Yawning Heights, which I haven't read, is supposedly first-rate.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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