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Dai conflitti con Lenin alla Rivoluzione russa, fino alle due guerre mondiali e alla guerra fredda, l’autore ci offre un quadro essenziale della figura di Stalin tra gli eventi chiave del XX secolo, restituendoci con rigore e maestria un affresco del Novecento più che mai necessario per comprendere il mondo presente ed evitare gli errori del passato. Pochi individui nella storia dell’umanità si sono lasciati alle s...

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Robert Conquest (1917 ¿ 2015) was one of the twentieth century¿s greatest historians of the Soviet Union. He came to international renown on publication of his ground-breaking history The Great Terror: Stalin¿s Purge of the Thirties in 1968, which revealed the true extent and nature Stalin¿s political executions and imprisonments. As well as holding academic posts at various universities, including the London School of Economics, Columbia Univ...

Robert Conquest (1917 ¿ 2015) was one of the twentieth century¿s greatest historians of the Soviet Union. Publication of The Great Terror: Stalin¿s Purge of the Thirties in 1968 brought him international renown, as did his revelatory later history The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine published in 1986. As well as holding academic posts at various universities, including the London School of Economics, Columbia U...

Il libro contiene tre rapporti della commissione del Senato americano sulle vittime dei crimini dei regimi comunisti, rispettivamente in Unione Sovietica, in Cina e nel Vietnam comunista, pubblicati nei primi anni 1970. Il numero delle vittime del terrore comunista calcolate a quel tempo era di circa 60 milioni, esclusi i caduti in guerra - o per ragioni riconducibili alla guerra - quelle dovute a fattori estranei al comunismo. Oggi questi dat...

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 maneuvers of the Communist regime to suppress, appease, or make use of them. The future of the Soviet Union, and thus of the world, depends greatly on whether, and how, the Communist leadership, whose own ideology has lost most of its appeal, can adjust to a new surge of national...

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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 w...

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The first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century, The Harvest of Sorrow examines the atrocities inflicted on the Russian peasantry by the Soviet Communist party between 1929 and 1933.

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La Grande carestia, l'atroce moria per fame (Holomodor) che, tra il 1932 e il 1933, uccise in Ucraina milioni di persone, non fu fatalità, ma un'operazione di sterminio deliberato, voluta da Stalin per piegare i contadini che resistevano alla collettivizzazione. Questa terribile verità fu a lungo negata, anche nell'Occidente. Quando, nel 1986, lo storico Robert Conquest pubblicò negli Stati Uniti questo libro, il primo completo e sconvolgente ...

The publication of The Dragons of Expectation in 2005 reaffirmed Robert Conquest's stature as a leading intellectual and one of the world's great humanists. In the tradition of Isaiah Berlin's The Crooked Timber of Humanity and George Orwell's Essays, this book brilliantly traces how seductive ideas have come to corrupt modern minds, to often disastrous effects. In what Publishers Weekly called "a frontal assault on the pieties of the left, " ...

A leading scholar-historian of the U.S.S.R. offers a penetrating look at one of the most enigmatic and terrifying figures of modern times. Distilling a lifetime's study, Conquest provides a powerful, living portrait of Josef Stalin as child and student, revolutionary and Communist theoretician, political animal and paranoid leader. "A brisk, informative synthesis".--The Wall Street Journal.

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Presents an analysis that ranges from the failures of the Enlightenment to the nature of Democracy, and Stalinism and Liberalism. This title shows how false nostrums have affected academe, politicians and the public, and how our weakness for ideological certainty has caught us in a ruinous cycle of totalitarianism and war.