The Time of Stalin, Portrait of Tyranny is an extraordinary book of historical revelation, a searing criminal indictment, told from the inside of Soviet history. Anton Antonov-Ovesyenko is truly a child of the Bolshevik Revolution (and its traumatic outcome). His father, Vladimir Antonov-Ovesyenko, led the Bolshevik storming of the Winter Palace in October 1917 and went on the become a famous Soviet military leader, political figure, diplomat. He was finally killed in Stalin"s purge of the late thirties. The official rehabilitation of Vladimir Anonov-Ovseyenko, 1956, was one of the first acts of Khrushechev"s de-Stalinization. Now his son, Anton, almost totally blind and a survivor of many years in Stalin"s prisons and concentration camps, tells the story of Stalin from personal experience. The fate of the Soviet Union under Stalin - as well as the official silence that again enshrouds the man Anton denounces as a gangster - has led him to write a remarkable and unique book.