The Harvest of Sorrow, (Hardcover)

from KLmesoftly

More of a prosecution than an unbiased history. Conquest lays all of the blame on Stalin (rather than Lenin's decisions or the direction of the party as a whole), and works through the book to convince the reader of his point. It's an interesting thesis, though I feel that I'd have to do more rea...

from KLmesoftly

More of a prosecution than an unbiased history. Conquest lays all of the blame on Stalin (rather than Lenin's decisions or the direction of the party as a whole), and works through the book to convince the reader of his point. It's an interesting thesis, though I feel that I'd have to do more rea...

from Whiskey3pa

A challenging read, due to content and style. It is a scholarly treatment and does not have great flow. The account of the genocide by starvation against the Ukraine is a true horror. While Marxism would go on to slaughter many millions more people over the next century this was the beginning. Th...

from KLmesoftly

More of a prosecution than an unbiased history. Conquest lays all of the blame on Stalin (rather than Lenin's decisions or the direction of the party as a whole), and works through the book to convince the reader of his point. It's an interesting thesis, though I feel that I'd have to do more rea...

from KLmesoftly

More of a prosecution than an unbiased history. Conquest lays all of the blame on Stalin (rather than Lenin's decisions or the direction of the party as a whole), and works through the book to convince the reader of his point. It's an interesting thesis, though I feel that I'd have to do more rea...