The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-famine (Pimlico) |
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Robert Conquest
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Pages: 432 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0712697500
Pub: Pimlico
Pub date: 2002-05-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 190622
Reader Reviews:
very dated (4/22 people found this helpful)
This is undoubtedly an important topic which prior to the publication of this book originally over 20 years ago had been overlooked. However the book is as much an anti-Communist rant by the author as it is a documentary of the terror famine in the Ukraine and as such is hopelessly outdated and becomes very difficult to read and take seriously. In this day and age this topic deserves better.
The harvest of sorrow; terrifying, accurate and honest (12/22 people found this helpful)
The harvest of sorrow by Robert Conquest brings to light the true meaning of what the red terror was. It does what so many others have failed to do so in imortalising for us today, using the benefit of both hindsight and first hand documentation, what it really was like to have been involved in Stalin's purges. A terrific read and a must for every histoy finatic of this era, or anyone looking for a great book about the awful history of a great country.
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