Books You Should Read: "The Rasputin File" by Edvard Radzinsky

I don't recommend enough books on this blog. I can only remember doing it once - last year when I told you to buy Grunge Is Dead by Greg Prato.

Well, now I'm telling you to read this most excellent book about Rasputin. These guys put it well:

"This book is based on a lost investigation file that only resurfaced after the fall of the Communist Russian government, in 1995. It was at this point that the world was to learn of just how involved Grigory Rasputin was at being a catalyst to the Russian revolution, which led to the ending of the Tsars in Russian history. The file is filled with interrogations of many of the people that made up the intimate circles of Rasputin, himself. And it is through these interrogations that a clearer picture of the character of Rasputin evolves."

If you have even the slightest interest in the life and death of Rasputin (if you're awesome you do), this is essential reading. Perhaps whilst listening to Mastodon's Crack the Skye?

Or this one:

(mp3) Fireside - Let Rasputin do it
Available on Uomini D'Onore (1998)