Ebook {Epub PDF} The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest

But Conquest has added enormously to the detail, including hitherto secret information on the three great "Moscow Trials," on the fate of the executed generals, on the methods of obtaining confessions, on the purge of writers and other members of the intelligentsia, on life /5(5). The new version was published in as The Great Terror: A Reassessment. The American historian J. Arch Getty wrote in that the archives did not support Conquest's casualty figures. [20] In , investigative journalist Paul Lashmar suggested that the reputation of prominent academics such as Robert Conquest was built upon work derived. The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in Harrison Salisbury called it "brilliant not only an odyssey of 1/5(1).

10 quotes from Robert Conquest: 'The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.', 'Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then sitting in slippers: then drooling.', and 'There was an old bastard named Lenin Who. "Anthony Powell once wrote of Robert Conquest that he had a 'capacity for taking enormous pains in relation to any enterprise in hand.' It is beyond dispute that, forty years after the publication of The Great Terror, this judgment requires no reassessment."--Michael Weiss, The New Criterion. Robert Conquest is the author of some thirty books of history, biography, poetry, fiction, and criticism. The recipient of many honors and awards, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Great Terror, The: Conquest, Robert: L Digital Audiobook: Modern - 20th Century audio download. The Great Terror: A Reassessment $ Only 2 left in stock (more on the way). The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in Harrison Salisbury called it "brilliant not only an odyssey of madness, tragedy, and sadism, but a work of scholarship and literary craftsmanship.".