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| #62964 in Books | 2007-11-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.10 x1.70 x9.10l,1.89 | File type: PDF | 608 pages||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Absolute power corrupts absolutely|By Bryan|Conquest's The Great Terror is a must-have for any student of Soviet/Russian history, because the Terror and its legacies reverberate in Russia to this day. I read this book for the first time in the 80's so it's hard to say how much new material there is in the reassessment. There are a couple of blatantly sexist statements but oth|||"Anthony Powell once wrote of Robert Conquest that he had a 'capacity for taking enormous pains in relation to any enterprise in hand.' It is beyond dispute that, forty years after the publication of The Great Terror, this judgment requires no reasse
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 former Soviet Union, where it is now considered the definitive account of the period.
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