The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties

Robert Conquest

MacMillan Publishing Company

New and collected poems (Hutchinson poets)

Hutchinson

On December 1, 1934, a lone gunman shot and killed Sergei Kirov, Secretary of the Central and Leningrad Party Organization, member of the Moscow Politburo, and once considered Joseph Stalin's possible successor. As one of the most significant crimes of the century, the assassination not only sealed the fates of thousands--and, indirectly, millions--of people spuriously connected to the killer, but it eliminated the second most powerful man in Russian politics and gave Stalin free rein to dominate Soviet policy. Written by the highly acclaimed author of The Harvest of Sorrow, Stalin and the Kirov Murder presents the first book-length examination of the case. Robert Conquest chronicles the details of the Kirov affair and all of its astonishing consequences. He tells us that now, fifty-five years after Kirov's murder, glasnost has prompted a new examination of this singular crime--one that will perhaps reveal the truth about the case for the first time. Based on all the available evidence, including official documents as well as the reports of numerous Russian defectors, Conquest has written a fascinating, at times chilling, account of the murder and its aftermath. He firmly establishes that Stalin not only sanctioned Kirov's assassination, but used it as a justification for the terror that culminated in 1937 and '38.

Stalin And The Kirov Murder

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This new edition of "The Great Terror" contains 30% more new material, mostly from the Soviet Union. Hence, the author has been able to reassess the 10 years of political murder, genocide and oppression under Stalin's rule, and ascertain the long term effects of Stalinism. Robert Conquest also wrote "The Harvest of Sorrow", "Collected Poems", "Stalin and the Kirov Murder" and "Tyrants and typewriters".

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<p>Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the peasantry of the USSR: dekulakisation, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families; and collectivisation, the effective abolition of private property in land and the concentration of the remaining peasantry in 'collective' farms under Party control. There followed a 'terror-famine', inflicted on the collectivised peasants of the Ukraine and certain other regions by the state, which set impossibly high quotas, removed every other source of food, and prevented outside help - even from other areas of the USSR - from reaching the starving millions. Epic in scope and rich in detail, The Harvest of Sorrow tells the moving story of a disaster that was, in human terms, one of the worst in living memory.</p>

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<p>Described as "the worst human disaster in living memory" and "Stalin's most monstrous act," the shocking details of this strategically inflicted terror-famine are meticulously documented by Robert Conquest.</p>

Harvest Of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror - Famine

Russia

University of Alberta Press

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