Dramas of the Revolution by Edvard Radzinsky. Short summary

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The book includes two works, Napoleon and The Executioner. The first novel, which is the notes of Bonaparte, describes the life and fate of the French emperor.

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The book includes two works, «Napoleon» and «The Executioner.» The first novel, which is the notes of Bonaparte, tells about the life and fate of the French emperor.

Napoleon talks about his childhood years, victories in battles, love adventures and military career. Gradually, step by step he comes to power in France and then in Europe. His meteoric rise was short-lived, followed by his fall.

The second novel describes the Great French Revolution. It is told on behalf of a participant in those terrible events — the executioner. Because the revolution demanded sacrifice, the king and his loyal retinue and the aristocrats were on the scaffold. But the guillotine demanded more and more victims.

The revolutionaries began to quarrel among themselves, as a result of which the dishonesty of the people’s power became known. It went down the same road as the king and the aristocracy, began to use the guillotine.