The Great Terror

<p><b>Robert Conquest's <i>The Great Terror </i>is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive f</b><b>iftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.</b><br><br>One of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union, <i>The Great Terror</i> revealed to the West for the first time the true extent and nature Stalin’s purges in the 1930s, in which around a million people were tortured and executed or sent to labour camps on political grounds. Its publication caused a widespread reassessment of Communism itself.<br><br>This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition gathers together the wealth of material added by the author in the decades following its first publication and features a new foreword by leading historian Anne Applebaum, explaining the continued relevance of this momentous period of history and of this classic account.</p> <p><b>Robert Conquest's <i>The Great Terror </i>is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive f</b><b>iftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.</b><br><br>One of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union, <i>The Great Terror</i> revealed to the West for the first time the true extent and nature Stalin’s purges in the 1930s, in which around a million people were tortured and executed or sent to labour camps on political grounds. Its publication caused a widespread reassessment of Communism itself.<br><br>This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition gathers together the wealth of material added by the author in the decades following its first publication and features a new foreword by leading historian Anne Applebaum, explaining the continued relevance of this momentous period of history and of this classic account.</p>