The Myth of the Great Terror. A Brazen Anti-Stalin Provocation
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The Myth of the Great Terror. A Brazen Anti-Stalin Provocation
39.99 €
Have you ever witnessed history being written? Have you ever seen how the generally accepted concept of the historical past crumbles with a bang? How hundreds of journalistic and scientific works on history turn into a mountain of worthless waste paper? The book "The Myth of the Great Terror" triggers processes of exactly this scale. This work of the author is entirely devoted to debunking the main anti-Stalinist and anti-communist myth - the myth of the "Big Terror" (mass repressions of 1937-1938, when about 656 thousand people were allegedly shot on the verdicts of a non-judicial body).In 1968, as part of the anti-communist propaganda, the book "The Big Terror: Stalin's purges of the 30s" by Robert Conquest was published. The bourgeois propaganda needed to present the communist regime as criminal and anti-human.Further anti-Soviet writings of Conquest will be actively used by Trotskyists inside the USSR. First Solzhenitsyn, slightly revised, would publish it under the title "The Gulag Archipelago". Then Robert Conquest's work would be used by the A.N. Yakovlev Commission and the Memorial Society, hastily creating a myth of mass repression in 1988-1992. Using Conquest's idea of the "Great Terror" and, in some cases, direct support from the Hoover Institution, an enormous amount of work was done to falsify a huge array of documents. Nevertheless, the myth has a huge number of flaws: the untenability of the motives of repressions, a secret extrajudicial body (which, from the point of view of jurisprudence, cannot exist at all), a huge number of errors in documents from archives, the absence of expert examinations of these documents, the absence of mass graves, etc.
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