Of all of the despots of our time, Joseph Stalin lasted the longest and wielded the greatest power. Conquest delves into his most jealously guarded secrets to reveal a living portrait of the paranoid leader.

Offering an illuminating examination of past failures and a guide to where mankind should go next, Conquest assigns responsibility to this century's cataclysms to the distorted ideologies of revolutionary Marxism and National Socialism, and warns of coming... [More...]

A leading scholar-historian of the U.S.S.R. offers a penetrating look at one of the most enigmatic and terrifying figures of modern times. Distilling a lifetime's study, Conquest provides a powerful, living portrait of Josef Stalin as child and student,... [More...]

Of all of the despots of our time, Joseph Stalin lasted the longest and wielded the greatest power. Conquest delves into his most jealously guarded secrets to reveal a living portrait of the paranoid leader.

Robert Conquest stresses poetry's relationship to the phenomenal universe—in particular to landscape, women, art, and war. His entirely individual poetic voice, varying from achieved lyrical sound and structure to other well-rendered forms and finish,... [More...]

The definitive work on Stalins purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. This revised edition includes hitherto secret information on many key matters.