A First-ever English Translation Which Reveals The Inner Voice Of A Brilliant Bolshevik Politician During The First Global Revolution Through This Dramatic History By Stefan Heym, We Become Intimate With The Story Of The Maverick And Internationalist Karl Radek, Known As The Editor Of The Newspaper Of Record Throughout The Soviet Era, Isvestia. Beginning As Lenin's Companion At The Dawning Of The October Revolution, Radek Later Became Stalin's Favorite Intellectual - Only To Find Himself Entangled In The Great Purges Of The Late 1930s And Scripting His Own Trial. In This, His Last Historical Novel, Heym Reveals Radek As A Brilliant Bolshevik Journalist And Politician Who Found Himself At Every Turn Of The Wheel Of Fate.a Central Figure Of The Communist World, Radek Was Such A Controversial And Perennially Ambiguous Personality That Even His Historical Biography Seems A Work Of Fiction.