From the Editor

Cold-War Conquest

■ It is all too rare, in the confusion and muddle of life, for anyone engaged in political or historical controversy to be unambiguously vindicated. But Robert Conquest, the historian of Stalin’s purges, the Ukrainian famine, and Soviet totalitarianism in general, has had his account of these terrible events more than confirmed by the revelations following the failed Soviet coup and the democratic Russian Revolution of 1991.