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Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive f iftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. One of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union, The Great Terror 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. 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.ReviewMore than any other writer, Conquest has been responsible for bringing to the attention of the West the extent of the crimes committed against humanity in the name of Soviet Communism ― Sunday Times Stalin was not only the master criminal; he was the master concealer. It took a master detective, and a poet, like Mr Conquest

Author

Robert Conquest

Publisher

The Bodley Head

Published

1968

Language

EN

ISBN

9781446496275

Updated

2026-03-24