Word: tsar
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TITLE: THE LAST TSAR: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF NICHOLAS...
...devastating political consequences, is told largely in their own voices. The regime that took their lives also believed in recording the minutia of its terror. Glasnost gave Radzinsky access to information that had long been locked away. Radzinsky discovered a folder headed "File on the Family of Former Tsar Nicholas the Second 1918-1919." The file included the written statement of Yakov Yurovsky, a longtime revolutionary who had commanded the execution squad, in which he set out a precise chronology of the massacre...