The Great Terror: A Reassessment

When The Great Terror was first published it was universally acclaimed as one of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union. Now, in this revised and updated edition, Robert Conquest uses fresh and dramatic material, which has only recently become available, to give further depth and breadth to his history of the momentous years between 1934 and 1939 when millions of people died in Stalin's purges. His reassessment confirms the Terror as one of the most tragic and far-reaching human and political issues of our time." (review from the back of the book)