The Great Terror - Stalin's Purge of the Thirties

Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.One of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union, The Great Terror revealed to the West for the first time the true extent and nature Stalin's purges in the 1930s, in which around a million people were tortured and executed or sent to labour camps on political grounds. Its publication caused a widespread reassessment of Communism itself.This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition gathers together the wealth of material added by the author in the decades following its first publication and features a new foreword by leading historian Anne Applebaum, explaining the continued relevance of this momentous period of history and of this classic account.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Conquest, Conquest Robert
• Publisher: Bodley Head Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781847925688
• ISBN: 978-1-84792-568-8
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 44 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Russia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Sociology & anthropology, c 1930 to c 1939, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), USSR, Soviet Union, Sociology and anthropology, Political leaders and leadership, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet