Robert Conquest

Introduction Of all the figures dealt with in this series, it will hardly be denied that by far the biggest shadow is cast by Lenin. At least, this is true if we consider the political and social world, for it might be argued that in some long run a writer like Camus or a philosopher like...

Preface The task of the historian is the notoriously difficult one of trying to represent clearly and truly in a few hundred pages events which cover years of time and nations of men and women. We may perhaps put this in perspective in the present case by saying that in the actions here recorded...