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The Great Terror: A Reassessment, 40th Anniversary Edition Hardcover - 2007
by Robert Conquest
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Robert Conquest's fascinating new book is the first comprehensive study of the Russian purges in the 1930s, during which Stalin and his NKVD chiefs subjected to country and party to an example to repression, in which reach their public climax in the notorious Confession Trials. After tracing the extra ordinary background of the Soviet Communist Party and its individual leaders in struggles preceding Stalin's victory, Mr conquest examines the dark episode of Kirov's murder, which is being called "the crime of the century". He goes on to describe the manoeuvers that followed it, culminating in the trial of August 1936, when the first time a number of Stalin's rivals came forward choose one to make false confessions of terrorism.
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- Title The Great Terror: A Reassessment, 40th Anniversary Edition
- Author Robert Conquest
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 40th anniversary
- Pages 608
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
- Date 2007-11-15
- ISBN 9780195316995 / 0195316991
- Weight 2.17 lbs (0.98 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.49 x 1.69 in (23.47 x 16.48 x 4.29 cm)
- Reading level 1380
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- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects Stalin, Joseph, Soviet Union - Politics and government -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007282596
- Dewey Decimal Code 947.084
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