- Politics and government, Terrorism, Purges, Political purges
The definitive work on Stalin's purges, the author's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. It was "hailed as the only scrupulous, nonpartisan, and adequate book on the subject".
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- Author
- Robert Conquest, Robert Conquest
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 584
- Publisher
- in association with the Canadian Institute of Ukranian Studies, Blackstone Audiobooks, Macmillan
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780091742935
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“The Great Terror of 1936 to 1938 did not come out of the blue.”
Robert Conquest was born in Malvern, Worcestershire, the son of an American businessman and a Norwegian mother. He was educated at Winchester College, the University of Grenoble, Oxford University, where he was an exhibitioner in modern history and took his bachelor's and master's degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and his doctorate in Soviet history. In 1937, after a year studying at the University of Grenoble and traveling in Bulgaria, he returned to Oxford and joined the Communist Party. When When World War II began, he became an intelligence officer in the Light Infantry. In 1940, he married Joan Watkins, with whom he had two sons. In 1944, while posted to Bulgaria as a liais
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