Talk:Edvard Radzinsky

message: I have made some corrections to follow NPOV policy.  The previous version was offensive for the person described in this article.Biophys 07:09, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I see nothing "offensive" and urge you to restore the page to neutrality. --Ghirla-трёп- 15:48, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: There are more than 200 books by notable authors who cite publications by Radzinsky  
. Cherry picking a single quote by non-notable teacher hardly serves wikipedia purpose.Biophys (talk) 00:41, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no intention to reiterate my arguments from the Operation Barbarossa talk page . That "non-notable" teacher is a much more notable scholar than Radzinsky himself, according to ISI and google.scholar.com.With regards to "cherry picking", such an accusation is baseless. Jstor.org retrieves 31 items for "Radzinsky Edvard" or "Radzinsky E". Majority of them just briefly mention his name. One review is on Radzinsky's "Conversations with Socrates" (a theatre play, irrelevant. There are some other theatre related articles that mention Radzinsky, I omit all of them as irrelevant). Second one is a David Brandenberger's review (already discussed). Third one, the David McDonald's review on "Nicholas II: The Life and Reign of Russia's Last Monarch by Robert D. Warth" (Source: The American Historical Review, Vol. 104, No. 4 (Oct., 1999), pp. 1419-1420), mentions Radzinsky only briefly, and does it as follows: "At least ten English-language biographies have appeared in the last decade alone, led by a reissue of Robert K. Massie's Nicholas and Alexandra (1967), a perennial favorite with undergraduates, and Eduard Radzinsky's potboiler." In his review article, ("1991 and the Russian Revolution: Sources, Conceptual Categories, Analytical Frameworks", The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Jun., 1998), pp. 384-425) Stephen Kotkin characterized Radzinsky as a playwright, not a historian ("Using many of these documents, the playwright Edvard Radzinsky has vividly evoked the intrigue surrounding the murder of the royal family as well as the milieu in which the killers operated.").Elena V. Baraban ("A Country Resembling Russia: The Use of History in Boris Akunin's Detective Novels." Source: The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 48, No. 3, Special Forum Issue: Innovation) is also highly critical of Radzinsky: "In 2000, Mikhalkov opened the Twenty-Second International Film Festival in Moscow with Gleb Panfilov's film Romanovy - ventsenosnaia sem'ia [The Romanovs-the Sovereign Family]. Like The Barber of Siberia, Panfilov's film also glorifies Russian monarchism. Other memorable examples of similar glorification of the Russian monarchy are Edvard Radzinsky's book on Nicholas II (1992, 1993), Radzinsky's television show Zagadki istorii [Historical Puzzles], and the media campaign surrounding the canonization of Nicholas II and his family in 2000.Radzinsky's portrayal of Nicholas II is highly flattering, for the author glosses over the tsar's mistakes in domestic and international politics and his personal flaws. However, the awkward facts regarding the last Romanov are well documented. See, e.g., Healy, Florinsky, Sulzberger, Alexandrov, Almedingen, Bergamini, Crankshaw, Lockhart, and Ferro"And the last non brief reference to Radzinsky I found in John Gooding' "Lenin in Soviet Politics, 1985-91" (Source: Soviet Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3 (1992), pp. 403-422). He wrote :"Thus E. Radzinsky rejected the 'myth' that the decision to kill the imperial family had been taken by the Ekaterinburg authorities alone and cited from a telegram signed by Lenin which had sanctioned the executions. Argumenty i fakty, 46, 17-23 November, 1990, pp. 6-7." AFAIK "Argumenty i fakty" is a yellowish newspaper.That is all what jstor.org tells about Radzinsky. Although I had a feeling that Radzinsky is not a serious historian, I never expected to find no positeve reviews on his works in reputable peer reviewed journals. I restore my edits and in future I plan to introduce other information I collected into the article.--Paul Siebert (talk) 01:50, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Russian wikipedia is not a reliable source.19:11, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Multiple links there are RS. GreyHood Talk 19:20, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I am sorry, but even ru:Радзинский, Эдвард Станиславович does not really tell that he is "pseudohistorian", not even mentioning RS.Biophys (talk) 19:49, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: See Radzinsky entry in the :ru:Фолк-хистори. GreyHood Talk 19:52, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not care about ruwiki. If you want to define him as "pseudohistorian" in his BLP article here, you are welcome to try. But you will not be able per our RS, NPOV and BLP policies. Biophys (talk) 22:54, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I speak about references there which designate Radzinsky as folk-historian which is just a specific Russian term for being a kind of pseudohistory. RS and NPOV are no problem here, and BLP just requires good referencing. The real problem is presenting Radzinsky as reliable source when in fact he has rather bad reputation among professional historians, and his TV history presenting style is a subject of jokes and parodies. GreyHood Talk 23:03, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have concern about any specific source, such as his biography of Stalin, you can ask at RS noticeboard (and it will be identified as RS). If you do not like this article, you are welcome to improve it. Biophys (talk) 23:09, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

text: His biography (Russian). Biophys (talk) 05:16, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
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