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Title: A reference; not suitable as the first book to read on the topic
Review: The great purge has too many victims to name, but the author tried to do it anyhow.This certainly seems to be a great reference but it simply should not read by those who do not know the hundreds of minor political characters who, as a general rule, are introduced only in the paragraph where they fall into the purge: 'XXXXX, a general who won the battle of ABC in PQR, was shot only two days after receiving the Order of Lenin.' It simply doesn't illuminate.
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