2024. 1. Conquest R. The Great Terror. Fragments of the book (from the chapter "On the Cultural Front" to the "Epilogue"). Folder. B. d. 74 l.
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Robert Conquest, автор
Definition: British historian, writer, specialist in the history of the USSR, author of the book The Great Terror (1968)
Years of life: 1917-2015
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In 1968 he published his most famous work, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s. This is the first comprehensive study of the Great Terror in the Soviet Union 1934-1939. In 1986, Conquest published The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine, a book about the Holodomor, the famine in Ukraine and other parts of the USSR, which was associated with the collectivization of agriculture under the leadership of Stalin in 1929-1931, during which millions of peasants died from starvation, deportation, imprisonment in labor camps and executions. One of Conquest's last works was Reflections on a Ravaged Century, published in 1999. In it, he describes the appeal of the totalitarian mindset to many Western intellectuals. He is currently a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.