Tre år senere, i 1989, udkom 'Stalin and the Kirov Murder'. With the publication of this and his earlier book, The Great Terror, which revealed the truth about Stalin's political purges, Robert Conquest revealed to the West the staggering human cost of the Soviet regime. I 1986 publicerede Conquest bogen 'The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine', der handler om tvangskollektivering af landbrug især i Ukraine og andre sovjetrepublikker i perioden 1929-31 og den hungersnød, som tvangskollektiveringen forårsagede. More deaths resulted from the actions described in this book than from the whole of the First World War.Įpic in scope and rich in detail, The Harvest of Sorrow describes how millions of peasants in the USSR were dispossessed and deported as a result of the abolition of private property, and how millions in the newly established 'collective' farms of the Ukraine and other regions were then deliberately starved to death through impossibly high quotas, the removal of all other sources of food and their isolation from outside help. Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written. The temporary conquest of much of the western part, including Kiev, by the Poles in May 1920 was the last important interruption of Soviet rule.
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