About the book: 2020 / The best books by Edward Radzinsky about key figures in the history of Russia and the USSR. "Woe, woe to you, the great city of Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment has come” (REV. 18:10). “I am the first and I am the last, and besides me there is no God” (Isaiah 44:6). Little Soso Dzhugashvili, a student of the Theological Seminary, who went down in world history under the name of Stalin, should have known these words of the Holy Book well..