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The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny by Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko 4.07  ·  Rating details ·  15 ratings  ·  3 reviews

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.