Let History Judge

{{Short description|Book by Roy Medvedev}}{{Infobox book

| author = Roy Medvedev

| pub_date = 1969

| language = Russian

| title_orig = К суду истории

| genre = History

}}

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Let History Judge ({{langx|ru|К суду истории}}, Before the Court of History) is a Soviet history book by Roy Medvedev that critiques Stalinism from a Marxist perspective. Its publication in 1969 resulted in Medvedev's expulsion from the Communist Party and in subsequent harassment.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DlMSrtOGLIC&pg=PA505 |page=505 |title=Censorship of historical thought: a world guide, 1945-2000 |first=Antoon |last=de Baets |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2002|isbn=978-0-313-31193-2 }}

Medvedev said of his methodology that "I did not make use of or have access to any closed archives, “special collections,” or any other limited-access depositories and I am not familiar with any" and "there could not be a published source for much of the information in this book; it was passed on by the victims of repression or their friends or relatives".{{cite book |last1=Medvedev |first1=Roy |title=Let History Judge |date=1989 |publisher=Columbia University Press |pages=xviii-xx}}

The book was republished in expanded form in 1989.