Tyrants and Typewriters: Communiques from the Struggle for Truth

Robert Conquest has built a career upon anti-communism in general and anti-Bolshevism in particular. Which is not to say he's not good at his work. This collection of minor essays is less a documentation of the "struggle for truth" in the USSR than it is a settling of scores and an awarding of encomiums. Conquest rounds up the usual suspects (Lenin, Stalin, those insufficiently critical of either) and the usual witnesses (Djilas, Koestler, Solzhenitsyn, et al.). Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.