Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar
by Edvard Radzinsky
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Russia may have never fallen into the hands of Communists if this foreward thinking man was not assasinated. He liberated the serfs, and had many progressive ideas in the works to lead Russia to more of a democratic society and less of an autocracy. His assaination angered his son, Alexander III so much, that he cancelled his fathers plans for reform and took the full reins of Tsarist power. If only the assassins had known of Alexander II's plans for the future of Russia, things would have been ...more
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Read in July, 2008
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Edvard Radzinsky is a stellar biographer whose dramatic background shines through in this work. It doesn't hurt that his subject matter is the life of one of Russia's most enigmatic autocrats.
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Read in October, 2006
very good, although a somewhat scary reading, terrific parallels with modern day world
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