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Ivan the Terrible: Profiles in Power.(Book Review)
Canadian Journal of History
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August 1, 2004|
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Ivan the Terrible: Profiles in Power, by Andrei Pavlov and Maureen Perrie. New York, Pearson-Longman, 2003. ix, 234 pp. $16.95 US (paper).
Andrei Pavlov and Maureen Perrie have produced an excellent and very welcome biography of the fascinating and elusive Ivan the Terrible. The work maintains the reader's interest in the horror and sensational cruelty of Ivan's reign, while adhering to rigorously scholarly standards and advancing an original argument of its own. This balance of titillation and academic stringency is a difficult one to achieve, and they have done an ...
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