The Great Terror: A Reassessment | Robert Conquest | The classic book on The Great Terror

The Great Terror: A Reassessment | Robert Conquest | Robert Conquest - THE SOURCE ON STALIN'S CRIMES

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	The Great Terror: A Reassessment Robert Conquest Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 - 608 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The classic book on The Great Terror

This will ceetinaly be one of the books future students looking back into the 20th century will be reading to understand what happened in one of the most important moments. Conquest has survived his ideological critics in pristine conditions, thus the predictive historian is judged well by history itself in a wonderful and blessed anti-irony. When the world has forgotten the likes of Hobsbawm, here Conquest will sit, at the head of the table.

Robert Conquest - THE SOURCE ON STALIN'S CRIMES

Robert Conquest's classic study of Stalin's crimes has withstood the test of time and the barbs from resident Marxist reviewers. Soviet archive sources prove his amazing accuracy. If you require THE SOURCE for this incredibly tragic and inhumane period in Russian - Soviet Union history, this is the book to purchase. It will amaze you at the extent of man's cruelty to man and the criminally sadistic system that "Uncle Joe" Stalin and his cohorts set up. Do not hesitate to purchase this or any other book by Robert Conquest. He is the master of this subject matter.

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Very good intro to this topic

The last review is utter nonsense: Conquest is one of the most respected of all Soviet historians. He clearly despises Stalin, but how could one look upon his unfathomable devastation otherwise? As someone who has studied Soviet history for years, I can tell you that Conquest's writings are right in line with nearly all books on the topic of Stalin, even those by Marxists like Medvedev (not to mention the great Solzhenitsyn himself).

This is a good intro to the topic of Stalinist terror. To a novice reader, it will be a bit hard to keep all of the names straight, but it will also be a real eye-opener -- you'll see where Orwell mined many of his ideas. I'd strongly recommend that all readers of this gravitate to Kravchenko's I Chose Freedom (cliched title, I know, but a great autobiography).

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VERY Heavy

.....both literally and figuratively. When I purchased this book, I thought it was going to be a narrative of life during the purges and at the camps, a la Shalamov or Bardach.

Instead, it is actually a scholarly work with incredible detail regarding the politics and behind the scenes happenings during those terrible times. As such, it was an incredible piece of work, possibly the best of its type. If this is what you are seeking, get it because you will find none better. You won't breeze through it, but you will feel very educated when you finish it.

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