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The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties is a book by British historian Robert Conquest which was published in 1968. [1] It gave rise to an alternate title of the period in Soviet history known as the Great Purge.
Conquest was born in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, [1] to an American father, Robert Folger Wescott Conquest, and an English mother, Rosamund Alys Acworth. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] His father served in an American Ambulance Field Service unit with the French Army in World War I , and was awarded the Croix de Guerre, with Silver Star in 1916.
According to Robert Conquest in his 1968 book The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, with respect to the trials of former leaders, some Western observers were unintentionally or intentionally ignorant of the fraudulent nature of the charges and evidence, notably Walter Duranty of The New York Times, a Russian speaker; the American ...
Stalin viewed through the lens of glastnost is a constant theme in this work, as it was in the author's preceding 1990 book, The Great Terror: A Reassessment. [ 1 ] Conquest focuses on three main reasons why Stalin was able to seize and maintain power through a variety of ever-changing coalitions of New Bolsheviks.
The book was a challenge to works by Robert Conquest and part of the debates between the "totalitarian model" and "revisionist school" of the Soviet Union. In an appendix to the book, Getty also questioned the previously published findings that Stalin organized himself the murder of Sergey Kirov to justify his campaign of Great Purge. [6]
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine is a 1986 book by British historian Robert Conquest published by the Oxford University Press.It was written with the assistance of historian James Mace, a junior fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, who started doing research for the book following the advice of the director of the institute. [1]
The Great Purge (Russian: Большой террор, transliterated Bolshoy terror, The Great Terror) was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin in 1937–1938.
In his 1968 book The Great Terror, the British historian Robert Conquest accuses Nazi Party leaders Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich of forging documents that implicated Tukhachevsky in an anti-Stalinist conspiracy with the Wehrmacht General Staff, to weaken the Soviets' defence capacity.