This is an intelligent, humane and rich book, one from which even the specialist has much to learn. Werth carefully gathered together the exceptional documents unearthed after 1991 by Memorial researchers, to whom the book is properly dedicated, and ably combined them with those published by scholars such as Khaustov, as well as with what he himself discovered and learnt over the years, to produce the best book we have today on the Great Terror. Given the extraordinary quality of the documen..
