The Great Terror

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THE
GREAT TERROR
A REASSE SSMENT
ROBERT CONQUES!
The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquesti The Creai Terror was universally acclaimed when it first ap-peared in 1968. Edmund Wilson hailed it as "the only scrupulous, non-partisan, and adequate book on the subject." George F. Kennan, writing in The New York Times Book Review, noted that "one comes away filled with a sense of the relevance and immediacy of old questions." And Harrison Salisbury called it "brilliant not only an Odyssey of madness, tragedy, and sadism, but a work of scholarship and literary crafts-manship." And in recent years it has received equally high praise in the Soviet Union, where it is now considered the authority on the periód, and has been serialized in Neva, one of their leading periodicals.
Of course, when Conquest wrote the originai volume two decades ago, he relied heavily on unofficial sources. Now, with the advent of glasnost, an avalanche of new material is available, and Conquest... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE
GREAT TERROR
A REASSE SSMENT
ROBERT CONQUES!
The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquesti The Creai Terror was universally acclaimed when it first ap-peared in 1968. Edmund Wilson hailed it as "the only scrupulous, non-partisan, and adequate book on the subject." George F. Kennan, writing in The New York Times Book Review, noted that "one comes away filled with a sense of the relevance and immediacy of old questions." And Harrison Salisbury called it "brilliant not only an Odyssey of madness, tragedy, and sadism, but a work of scholarship and literary crafts-manship." And in recent years it has received equally high praise in the Soviet Union, where it is now considered the authority on the periód, and has been serialized in Neva, one of their leading periodicals.
Of course, when Conquest wrote the originai volume two decades ago, he relied heavily on unofficial sources. Now, with the advent of glasnost, an avalanche of new material is available, and Conquest has mined this enormous cache to write a substantially new édition of his classic work. It is remarkable how many of Conquesťs most disturbing conclusions have borne up under the light of fresh evidence. But Conquest has added enormously to the detail, including hitherto secret information on the three great "Moscow Trials," on the fate of the executed generáis, on the methods of obtaining confessions, on the purge of writers and other members of the intelli-
gentsia, on life in the labor camps, and many other key matters.
Both a leading Sovietologist and a highly respected poet, Conquest here blends prof ou nd research w'rth evocative prose, providing not only an authorita-tive account of Stalin's purges, but also a compelling and eloquent chronicle of one of this century's most tragic events. A timely revision of a book long out of print, this updated version of Conquesťs classic work will interest both readers of the earlier volume and an entirely new generation of readers for whom it has not been readily available.
About the Author
Robert Conquest is Senior Research Fei low 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. Vissza