大恐怖
The great terror
Robert Conquest · 初版 1968 年
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作为关于斯大林大清洗的权威著作，作者的《大恐怖》于 1968 年首次问世时便广受赞誉。它「被誉为关于这一主题唯一严谨、公正且完备的著作」。近年来，它在苏联也获得了同样高的评价，如今被视为那个时期的权威之作，并在该国主要刊物之一《涅瓦》上连载。当然，作者在二十年前撰写初版时，严重依赖非官方来源。如今，随着公开化的到来，大量新材料涌现……
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贫穷是人类的自然状态。要不是西方发展出了财富创造，还会有多少百万人生活在极度困苦之中。你可以看看 Robert Conquest 的《The Great Terror》——“确切数字也许永远无法完全确定，但苏联政权各种恐怖造成的死亡总数很难低于一千五百万左右。”
Poverty is the natural state of mankind. How many more millions would exist in dire misery were it not for the development of wealth creation in the West. You might want to look at Robert Conquest's The Great Terror - "Exact numbers may never be known with complete certainty, but the total of deaths caused by the whole range of Soviet regime's terrors can hardly be lower than some fifteen million."
没有义务就没有权利。为什么我们从来听不到后者？想读读马克思主义国家里人们如何捍卫自己的权利，就读 Robert Conquest 那本 570 页的《The Great Terror》——它记述了以 1917 年革命中诞生的苏联共产主义之名对人类犯下的罪行。通常的回应是“我们会换种做法”。可悲的是，这总是留下……
There are zero rights without obligations. Why do we never hear about the latter? To read about people standing up for their rights in a Marxist State read Robert Conquest's 570 pages of 'The Great Terror' - an account of the crimes committed against humanity in the name of the Soviet Communism that emerged from the 1917 revolution. 'We'll do it differently' is the usual response. Sadly this always leaves…
……把他们烧到最后一卡精神热量都不剩；可他们仍在冰冷的虔诚中发光，像磷光尸体一样。’Arthur Koestler，《Arrow in the Blue》，1945 年，（转引自：Robert Conquest，《The Great Terror: A Reassessment》，1990 年）。[0]https://archive.org/details/danzig-baldaev-drawings-from-the...
…had burnt them out to the last spiritual calorie; yet they were still glowing in cold devotion, like phosphorescent corpses.’ Arthur Koestler, Arrow in the Blue, 1945, (quoted by: Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment, 1990). [0]https://archive.org/details/danzig-baldaev-drawings-from-the...