The Soviet historian, Medvedev, has updated his book which was first published in 1969, to include information amassed from personal inteviews, memoirs and archive material on certain events of the period, such as the 1929-32 purges, the Kirov assassination, the trial of Bukharin, Trotsky's revolutionary activity and Stalin's involvement with his murder, Stalin's mistakes during the war, new purges from 1946-53 and the vote of the 17th Congress which decided Stalin's candidacy. The new introduction discusses the treatment of Stalin and Stalinism in the USSR under Gorbachev.
- ISBN10 0851241506
- ISBN13 9780851241500
- Publish Date 4 June 1976 (first published 23 March 1972)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Spokesman Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 624
- Language English