cover image The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II

The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II

Edvard Radzinsky. Anchor Books, $19 (496pp) ISBN 978-0-385-46962-3

This valuable new account of the murder of Czar Nicholas II and his family contradicts the official Soviet version, in which Siberian Bolsheviks ordered the executions without Moscow's clearance. Photos. (July)