The Great Terror
A Reassessment
by Robert Conquest
Recommended by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Socialism, Most Recommended Books, and History.
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 form...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Socialism, Most Recommended Books, and History.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
“The seven books that as a young person made me love history… (and even aspire to write it.) I m sure u have some of yr own…. Isabel de Madariaga, Russia in age of Catherine the Great. Robert Conquest, Great Terror. Peter Hopkirk, Great Game. Robert Massie, Peter the Great.”
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