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The definitive work on Stalins purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. This revised edition includes hitherto secret information on many key matters.

The definitive work on Stalins purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. This revised edition includes hitherto secret information on many key matters.

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Of all of the despots of our time, Joseph Stalin lasted the longest and wielded the greatest power. Conquest delves into his most jealously guarded secrets to reveal a living portrait of the paranoid leader.

Of all of the despots of our time, Joseph Stalin lasted the longest and wielded the greatest power. Conquest delves into his most jealously guarded secrets to reveal a living portrait of the paranoid leader.

Da grandi letterati e poeti come Isaak Babel' e Osip Mandel'stam, a politici come Bucharin, Zinov'ev e Kamenev, a militari come il generale Tuchacevskij, a cittadini comuni che non sapevano nulla della tragica partita che si stava giocando sulle loro teste: il periodo del Grande Terrore fu una spaventosa ecatombe alla quale, da parte di molti, non si volle credere. Questo libro, spesso elogiato come il "testo definitivo" sugli anni dello stali...

Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson "our greatest living modern historian." As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next. Graced with one of the most acute gifts for political prescience since Orwell, Conquest assigns responsibility for our century's cataclysms not to impersonal economic or social forces but to the distorted ideologies of revolution...

The historical background, the present position, and the future prospects of both the non-Russian and Russian peoples are considered in their many aspects, as are the manoeuvres of the Communist regime to suppress, appease, or make use of them.