{"id":2246,"date":"2004-12-27T17:56:18","date_gmt":"2004-12-27T22:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2020-04-15T10:12:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:12:52","slug":"the-continuing-horror-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2246","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Great Terror<\/i> Has Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came home today from my holiday to find a Christmas present off my wish list a-waitin&#8217; for me.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0195317009&#038;asins=0195317009&#038;linkId=YA4IZS7RR4PCDIYM&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve been wanting this book for a long looooong time.  My library has not felt complete without it, frankly.  And yet &#8211; I&#8217;m gonna hold off on reading it for a while &#8211; too much pain, too much evil, and I need a break after <i>Rape of Nanking<\/i>.  But &#8211; as always &#8211; I will let you all know when I read it, let you know my thoughts on Conquest&#8217;s great work.  I&#8217;ve read Conquest&#8217;s biography of Stalin (<i>Stalin: Breaker of Nations<\/i>), and I also read the book he wrote on the 1930s famine in the Ukraine (called <i>The Harvest of Sorrow<\/i>) &#8211; but this, I believe, is considered to be his master-work.  Well, it&#8217;s a re-assessment of the information he brought forth in the original book (published in the 60s, I think).<\/p>\n<p>From the back cover of this mammoth book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When it first appeared, <i>The Great Terror<\/i> was universally acclaimed as the definitive work on Stalin&#8217;s purges.  Edmund Wilson hailed it as &#8216;the only scrupulous, non-partisan, and adequate book on the subject &#8230;&#8217;  It later received equally high praise in the Soviet Union, where it is now considered <i>the<\/i> authority on the period.  When Conquest wrote the original volume, he relied heavily on unofficial sources, but with the advent of glasnost an avalanche of new material became available.  Conquest mined this enormous cache to write a substantially new edition of his classic work, with many of his most disturbing conclusions being verified under the light of fresh evidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8220;re-assessment&#8221; was published in 1990.  Incredible.<\/p>\n<p><i>Very <\/i>psyched to read it.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0195317009&#038;asins=0195317009&#038;linkId=YA4IZS7RR4PCDIYM&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came home today from my holiday to find a Christmas present off my wish list a-waitin&#8217; for me. I&#8217;ve been wanting this book for a long looooong time. My library has not felt complete without it, frankly. And yet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2246\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1716,139,2601,1615],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102007,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/102007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}