Robert Conquest

The Great Terror

Stalin's Purge of the Thirties

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 760g
• ISBN-13: 9781847925688
• ISBN-10: 1847925685
• Artikelnr.: 52914081

Autorenporträt

Robert Conquest (1917 - 2015) was one of the twentieth century's greatest historians of the Soviet Union. Publication of The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties in 1968 brought him international renown, as did his revelatory later history The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine published in 1986. As well as holding academic posts at various universities, including the London School of Economics, Columbia University and Stanford University, he was an acclaimed poet, critic, novelist and translator.