The Great Terror
  • Published: 1 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9781446496275
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 624

The Great Terror

A Reassessment

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1 Nov 2018
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15 Oct 2018
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Fiftieth anniversary edition of the ground-breaking account of Stalin's Terror with a new foreword from Anne Applebaum

Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.

One of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union, The Great Terror revealed to the West for the first time the true extent and nature Stalin’s purges in the 1930s, in which around a million people were tortured and executed or sent to labour camps on political grounds. Its publication caused a widespread reassessment of Communism itself.

This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition gathers together the wealth of material added by the author in the decades following its first publication and features a new foreword by leading historian Anne Applebaum, explaining the continued relevance of this momentous period of history and of this classic account.
  • Published: 1 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9781446496275
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 624
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Robert Conquest

Robert Conquest (1917 – 2015) was one of the twentieth century’s greatest historians of the Soviet Union. He came to international renown on publication of his ground-breaking history The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties in 1968, which revealed the true extent and nature Stalin’s political executions and imprisonments. As well as holding academic posts at various universities, including the London School of Economics, Columbia University and Stanford University, he was an acclaimed poet, critic, novelist and translator.

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Praise for The Great Terror

Stalin was not only the master criminal; he was the master concealer. It took a master detective, and a poet, like Mr Conquest, to unmask him completely

New York Times

Monumental

Washington Post

A very important book. No one has written about Stalin's terror so deeply

Milovan Djilas

More than any other writer, Conquest has been responsible for bringing to the attention of the West the extent of the crimes committed against humanity in the name of Soviet Communism

Sunday Times