The Great Terror

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Copyright © Robert Conquest 1968, 1990, 2008

Cover: Josef Stalin © James E. Abbe/ullstein bild Dtl./Getty Images

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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