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Title: Appalling!
Review: Conquest is a leading Sovietologist; he wrote the book's first edition in 1970. Thanks to glasnost, he was able to have acces to even more Soviet archives. His research focuses on th Stalinist purges of 1927-38. Party cadres, the Army, intellectuals, foreign communists, were all crushed under the implacable CRAZY, paranoid purges unleashed by Stalin, Beria and Kaganovich. The book talks also about the Kirov murder (orchestrated by Stalin, and used as a pretext to unleash persecution of his enemies). The amount of suffering is untold. In the epilogue, Conquest presents a rough estimate of the number of victims of the terror of `37:About 7 million arrestsAbout 1 million executedAbout 2 million died in campsAbout 1 million died in prsionBy the end of 1938 8 million people were in camps. May Stalin rot in hell as the damned soul and cursed demon that he was!
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