The Great Terror: A Reassessment / Edition 40

by Robert Conquest

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195317008
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/15/2007
Edition description:	Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Pages:	608
Sales rank:	486,587
Product dimensions:	9.16(w) x 6.23(h) x 1.52(d)
Lexile:	1380L (what's this?)

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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 40th Anniversary Edition
Book I, The Purge Begins
Introduction
1. Stalin Prepares
2. The Kirov Murder
3. Architect of Terror
4. Old Bolsheviks Congress
5. The Problems of Confession
Book II, The Yeshov Years
6. Last Stand
7. Assault on the Party
8. The Party Crushed
9. Nations in Torment
10. On the Cultural Front
11. In the Labor Camps
12. The Great Trial
13. The Foreign Element
14. Climax
Book III, Aftermath
15. Heritage of Terror
Epilogue: The Terror Today
Notes / Bibliography / Index

Editorial Reviews

"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

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