{"product_id":"the-great-terror-a-reassessment-paperback","title":"The Great Terror: A Reassessment - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Conquest\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's \u003cem\u003eThe Great Terror\u003c\/em\u003e 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 former Soviet Union, where it is now considered \u003cem\u003ethe\u003c\/em\u003e definitive account of the period. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Conquest wrote the original volume, he relied heavily on unofficial sources. 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. Both a leading historian and a highly respected poet, Conquest blends profound research with evocative prose, providing not only an authoritative account of Stalin's purges, but also a compelling and eloquent chronicle of one of this century's most tragic events. He provides gripping accounts of everything from the three great \"Moscow Trials,\" to methods of obtaining confessions, the purge of writers and other members of the intelligentsia, life in the labor camps, and many other key matters. \u003cbr\u003eOn the fortieth anniversary of the first edition, in the light of further archival releases, and new material published in Moscow and elsewhere, it remains remarkable how many of Conquest's most disturbing conclusions have continued to bear up. This volume, featuring a new preface by Conquest, rounds out the picture of this huge historical tragedy, further establishing the book as the key study of one of the twentieth centurys most lethal, and longest-misunderstood, offenses against humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Conquest\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of some thirty books of history, biography, poetry, fiction, and criticism. The recipient of many honors and awards, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is at present Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 608\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.52 x 9.16 x 6.23 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256317370470,"sku":"9780195317008","price":69.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/ZjdNM3FRTVJPM3g4OXltSFpxd0pGQT09.webp?v=1773712231","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-great-terror-a-reassessment-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}