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Synopsis
The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. With the advent of glasnost, Conquest mines an enormous cache of newly available material to write a new edition of this classic work.
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About the Author
About the Author:
Robert Conquest is Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the author of The Harvest of Sorrow, Stalin and the Kirov Murder, and numerous other books.
Review
"Anthony Powell once wrote of Robert Conquest that he had a 'capacity for taking enormous pains in relation to any enterprise in hand.' It is beyond dispute that, forty years after the publication of The Great Terror, this judgment requires no reassessment." --Michael Weiss, The New Criterion
I happened to mention to a few colleagues the other day that I was reading Robert Conquest's "The Great Terror". This drew blank looks....
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- PublisherUniv Ff Alberta Pr
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0888642229
- ISBN 13 9780888642226
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages544
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Tran, David (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 570 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. "The classic work on Stalinism - now available in a major revision using new evidence from glasnost." - dust jacket. "A masterpiece of historical detection, likely to remain the definitive work." - The Economist. A considerably updated version of the 1968 first edition. "Includes hitherto secret information on the three great 'Moscow Trials,' on the methods of obtaining confessions, on the purge of writers and other members of the intelligentsia, on life in the labor camps, and many other key matters." - dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal signs of use. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. Seller Inventory # 864h4469
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