People and Martians
Sheila Fitzpatrick, 24 January 2019
The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties
by Robert Conquest.
Bodley Head, 576 pp., £20, November 2018,978 1 84792 568 8 Show More
by Robert Conquest.
Bodley Head, 576 pp., £20, November 2018,
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine
by Robert Conquest.
Bodley Head, 412 pp., £20, November 2018,978 1 84792 567 1 Show More
by Robert Conquest.
Bodley Head, 412 pp., £20, November 2018,
“... anti a lot of other people.’ Three years earlier, Conquest had told the demographic historian Stephen Wheatcroft – co-author with Robert Davies of Years of Hunger, a study of Soviet agriculture in the famine era – that it was not his opinion that ‘Stalin purposely inflicted the 1933 famine. No. What I argue is that with resulting famine imminent, he ... ”