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.

ISBN:	9781847925688
Publisher:	Vintage Publishing
Imprint:	The Bodley Head
Published date:	01 Nov 2018
DEWEY:	947.0842
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	22988
Number of pages:	xxxiv, 576
Weight:	740g
Height:	226mm
Width:	175mm
Spine width:	46mm

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