The Great Terror Conquest Robert
The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. With the advent of glasnost, an avalanche of new material became available, and Conquest mined this enormous cache to write, in 1990, a s… Celý popis ↓
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The Great Terror Conquest Robert
The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. With the advent of glasnost, an avalanche of new material became available, and Conquest mined this enormous cache to write, in 1990, a substantially new edition of his classic work, adding enormously to the detail. 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 wrote the original volume, he relied heavily on unofficial sources.
Both a leading historian and a highly respected poet, Conquest blends profound research with evocative prose, providing not only an authoritative
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- Oxford Univ Pr
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