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The definitive focus on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first made an appearance in 1968. Edmund Wilson hailed it as "the one scrupulous, non-partisan, and enough book on the subject." George F. Kennan, writing in The New York Times Book Review, observed that "one comes away filled with a feeling 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 or grant and literary workmanship." And in recent years it includes received similarly high compliment in the Soviet Union, where it is now considered the authority on the time, and has been serialized in Neva, one of their leading periodicals.
Needless to say, when Conquest had written the original size two decades before, he relied greatly on unofficial options. Now, with the development of glasnost, an avalanche of new materials can be found, and Conquest has mined this great cache to write a significantly new release of his common work. It really is remarkable just how many of Conquest's most disturbing conclusions have created up under the light of fresh research. But Conquest has added enormously to the detail, including hitherto magic formula information on the three great "Moscow Tests," on the destiny of the executed generals, on the techniques of obtaining confessions, on the purge of authors and other users of the intelligentsia, on life in the labor camps, and a great many other key things.
Both a leading Sovietologist and a highly well known poet, Conquest here blends profound research with evocative prose, providing not only an authoritative bill of Stalin's purges, but also a engaging and eloquent chronicle of one of this century's most tragic occasions. A well-timed revision of your e book long out of print out, this modified version of Conquest's common work will interest both visitors of the earlier size and an entirely new generation of visitors for whom it is not readily available.
