The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great
Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968.
Harrison Salisbury called it "brilliant...not only an odyssey of
madness, tragedy, and sadism, but a work of scholarship and
literary craftsmanship." And in recent years it has received
equally high praise in the former Soviet Union, where it is now
considered the definitive account of the period.
When Conquest wrote the original volume, he relied heavily on
unofficial sources. With the advent of glasnost, an avalanche of
new material became available, and Conquest mined this enormous
cache to write, in 1990, a substantially new edition of his classic
work, adding enormously to the detail. Both a leading historian and
a highly respected poet, Conquest blends profound research with
evocative prose, providing not only an authoritative account of
Stalin's purges, but also a compelling and eloquent chronicle of
one of this century's most tragic events. He provides gripping
accounts of everything from the three great "Moscow Trials," to
methods of obtaining confessions, the purge of writers and other
members of the intelligentsia, life in the labor camps, and many
other key matters.
On the fortieth anniversary of the first edition, in the light of
further archival releases, and new material published in Moscow and
elsewhere, it remains remarkable how many of Conquest's most
disturbing conclusions have continued to bear up. This volume,
featuring a new preface by Conquest, rounds out the picture of this
huge historical tragedy, further establishing the book as the key
study of one of the twentieth centurys most lethal, and
longest-misunderstood, offenses against humanity.
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