The Great Terror

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This edition is largely the result of a suggestion made by Susan Ferber, whose editorial skills and advice then drove me to an up-to-date examination of the material not available for the last edition. So much new material had accumulated that the task before me was a notable challenge. Help, for which I am most grateful, came – as before – from Stephen Cohen and Semion Lyandres. Of the many others I would thank, I especially value John Dunlop, Jonathan Haslam, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Robert Service. I owe much to Julia and Anatol Shmelev for background research; to Amy Desai for her dependable secretarial work; to the Hoover Institution’s Soviet Archives Research Project; and as ever, or even more than ever, to my wife.