Edvard Radzinsky is justly famous as both a biographer and a dramatist; and he brings both skills to bear in this vivid; page-turning; rich portrait of one of the greatest of all Romanovs. Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln -- he freed the serfs; promised a new; more liberal state for everyone; yet was brought down by a determined group of terrorist anarchists who tried to kill him six times before finally; fatefully; succeeding. His story proves the timeless lesson that in Russia; it is dangerous to start reforms; but even more dangerous to stop them. It also shows that the traps and dangers encountered in today's war on terrorists were there 150 years ago.
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