Vast in scope, scholarly, and crowded with human detail, Roy Medvedev’s Let History Judge is the first authentic full-scale history and sociological analysis of Stalinism to come out of the Soviet Union.

It is work that reinstates lost realities of the Stalin years obscured by official apologists and unknown to foreign observers. Its documentation is formidable: unpublished memoirs (many of them written since the death of Stalin); extensive private interviews with men and women who were deeply involved in the events recounted; reminiscences, periodicals, pamphlets, and other published materials unavailable in the West.