The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge Of The Thirties
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Edition: 3rd us pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: Reading copy with markings
Condition remarks: Minimal markings in grey lead.
A landmark work of twentieth-century historical scholarship, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties chronicles one of the most devastating episodes of political violence in modern history — the systematic campaign of mass arrests, show trials, and executions that Joseph Stalin unleashed upon the Soviet Union during the 1930s. With meticulous precision and unflinching authority, Robert Conquest reconstructs the machinery of terror that consumed millions of lives, from high-ranking Communist Party officials to ordinary citizens swept up in waves of paranoid persecution. Drawing on survivor testimonies, declassified documents, and exhaustive archival research, the narrative uncovers how Stalin consolidated absolute power by dismantling any real or imagined opposition, transforming the Soviet state into an instrument of mass murder. The tone is rigorously analytical yet deeply humane, ensuring that the staggering human cost of totalitarianism is never reduced to mere statistics. First published in 1968 and later revised following the opening of Soviet archives, this definitive account remains an essential and sobering examination of how ideology and unchecked power can corrupt an entire civilization.
Author: Robert Conquest
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, The Macmillan Company
Genre: History
Edition: 3rd us pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: Reading copy with markings
Condition remarks: Minimal markings in grey lead.
A landmark work of twentieth-century historical scholarship, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties chronicles one of the most devastating episodes of political violence in modern history — the systematic campaign of mass arrests, show trials, and executions that Joseph Stalin unleashed upon the Soviet Union during the 1930s. With meticulous precision and unflinching authority, Robert Conquest reconstructs the machinery of terror that consumed millions of lives, from high-ranking Communist Party officials to ordinary citizens swept up in waves of paranoid persecution. Drawing on survivor testimonies, declassified documents, and exhaustive archival research, the narrative uncovers how Stalin consolidated absolute power by dismantling any real or imagined opposition, transforming the Soviet state into an instrument of mass murder. The tone is rigorously analytical yet deeply humane, ensuring that the staggering human cost of totalitarianism is never reduced to mere statistics. First published in 1968 and later revised following the opening of Soviet archives, this definitive account remains an essential and sobering examination of how ideology and unchecked power can corrupt an entire civilization.