Title: The author is not grounded in reality
Product review: Robert Thurston maintains that the Stalinist terror was almost, not quite, an optical illusion. This is an example of poor scholarship, because a vast ocean of memoirs and novels of survivors reveal the horrible reality of those times. Generations of meticulous, brilliant and insightful scholars support the accounts related by survivors. Finally, the opening of the secret Russian archives provides final confirmation, if that is even needed.
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