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The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny
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Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko
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The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny
is an extraordinary book of historical revelation, a searing criminal
indictment as told from the inside of Soviet society. Anton
Antonov-Ovseyenko was a child of the Bolshevik Revolution. His father,
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, led the Bolshevik storming of the Winter
Palace in October 1917 and went on the become a leading Soviet military
figure, political operative, and diplomat. He was a victim of judicial
murder during Stalin's purges of the late thirties. Vladimir
Antonov-Oveyenko's official rehabilitation in 1956 was one of the first
acts of Khrushchev's de-Stalinization program. His son, Anton, almost
totally blind and a survivor of many years in Stalin's prisons and
concentration camps, told the story of Stalin from personal experience.
The fate of the Soviet Union under Stalin - as well as the official
silence that again enshrouds the man Anton denounced as a gangster - led
him to write a remarkable and damning book.