Stalin, a 1997 biography by Edvard Radzinsky of Joseph Stalin, reflects the author's research in Russia's secret archives and consultation with living sources. Radzinsky was allowed to access some documents from the secret Soviet archives after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Radzinsky is a popular Russian playwright. He also wrote a bestselling history, The Last Czar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II (1992), and forty other popular histories, including others about the Russian Imperial family.