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Copyright © Robert Conquest 1968, 1990, 2008
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Foreword copyright © Anne Applebaum 2018
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First published in the UK by Macmillan & Co in 1968
Revised edition published by Hutchinson in 1990
Published by Pimlico in 1992
Fortieth anniversary edition published in 2008
Fiftieth anniversary edition published by The Bodley Head in 2018
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