About the book: year / Have you ever witnessed how history is written? Have you ever seen how the generally accepted concept of the historical past collapses miserably? How do hundreds of journalistic and scientific works on history turn into a mountain of worthless waste paper? The book “The Myth of the Great Terror” launches processes of precisely this scale. This author’s work is entirely devoted to debunking the main anti-Stalinist and anti-communist myth - the myth of the “Great Terror” (mass repressions of 1937-1938, when, according to the verdicts of a non-judicial body, about 656 thousand people).In 1968, as part of anti-communist propaganda, the book “The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 30s” by Robert Conquest was published. Bourgeois propaganda needed to present the communist regime as criminal and inhuman. Further, Conquest’s anti-Soviet writings would be actively used by Trotskyists within the USSR. First, Solzhenitsyn, having revised it a little, will release it under the title “The Gulag Archipelago.” Then the commission of A.N. will use the work of Robert Conquest. Yakovlev and the Memorial society, hastily creating in 1988-1992 the myth of mass repressions. Using the idea of ​​the “Great Terror” of Conquest, and in some cases the direct support of the Hoover Institution, a colossal amount of work was done to falsify a huge array of documents. Nevertheless, the myth has a huge number of flaws: the inconsistency of the motives for repression, a secret extrajudicial body (which, from the point of view of jurisprudence, cannot exist at all), a huge number of errors in documents from the archives, the lack of examination of these documents, the absence of mass graves, etc..