{"product_id":"2026100007561-secondhand-the-great-terror-stalins-purge-of-the-thirties","title":"The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge Of The Thirties","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: repr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one of the most chilling and meticulously documented accounts of political mass murder ever written, The Great Terror lays bare the full horror of Joseph Stalin's systematic campaign to annihilate perceived enemies of the Soviet state during the 1930s — a decade of show trials, forced confessions, and mass executions that claimed millions of lives. Robert Conquest chronicles the machinery of terror with forensic precision, tracing the purges from the assassination of Sergei Kirov in 1934 through the catastrophic decimation of the Red Army officer corps and the countless ordinary Soviet citizens swept into the NKVD's insatiable dragnet of death.\n\nPublished in 1968 at a time when the full scale of Stalinist crimes was still fiercely contested in Western academic and political circles, The Great Terror stands as a landmark work of 20th-century historiography — one that drew on defector testimonies, smuggled documents, and painstaking cross-referencing long before Soviet archives were opened. Conquest's prose is unflinching yet scrupulously analytical, dismantling decades of apologia with cold, irrefutable evidence. Decades after its first publication, it remains the definitive reckoning with one of history's most calculated exercises in state terror — and a haunting reminder of what happens when power is concentrated without accountability.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49131004166363,"sku":"2026100007561-SECONDHAND","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1d9d584f-aefc-4d7a-9ec0-6b5a1d2bd193.png?v=1786594414","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007561-secondhand-the-great-terror-stalins-purge-of-the-thirties","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}