Let history judge;: The origins and consequences of Stalinism

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.