George Robert Acworth Conquest (1917-07-15)15 July 1917 Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England
Died
3 August 2015(2015-08-03) (aged 98) Stanford, California, U.S.
Occupation
Historian, poet
Nationality
British
Citizenship
American
Education
Winchester College
Alma mater
University of Grenoble
Magdalen College, Oxford
Notable works
The Great Terror
The Harvest of Sorrow
Notable awards
See below
Spouse
Joan Watkins
(m. 1942; div. 1948)
Tatiana Mihailova
(m. 1948; div. 1962)
Caroleen MacFarlane
(m. 1964; div. 1978)
Elizabeth Wingate
(m. 1979)
Children
3
George Robert Acworth ConquestCMG OBE FBA FRSL (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British-American historian, poet, and novelist.[1] He was briefly a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain but later wrote several books against Communism.
A long-time research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Conquest was most notable for his work on the Soviet Union. His books included The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s (1968); The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine (1986); and Stalin: Breaker of Nations (1991). He was also the author of two novels and several collections of poetry.
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George Robert Acworth Conquest CMG OBE FBA FRSL (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British-American historian, poet, and novelist. He was briefly a...
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perceived political enemies (this understanding is favoured by historian RobertConquest, amongst others). The economic explanation, in turn as set out by historian...
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of Islamism. According to a 2003 profile in The Guardian, historian RobertConquest favoured a British withdrawal from the European Union in favour of...
actual Gulag death toll are usually higher because historians such as RobertConquest took into account the likelihood of unreliable record keeping. According...
Collectivization and the Terror-Famine is a 1986 book by British historian RobertConquest published by the Oxford University Press. It was written with the assistance...
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JSTOR 20030526. Conquest, Robert (2001). Reflections on a Ravaged Century (New ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-32086-2. Conquest, Robert (2002)...
Robert, where an Old English cognate form (Hrēodbēorht, Hrodberht, Hrēodbēorð, Hrœdbœrð, Hrœdberð, Hrōðberχtŕ) had existed before the Norman Conquest...
exemplified by the work of Robert Sheckley. He further displayed his devotion to the genre in editing, with the Sovietologist RobertConquest, the science-fiction...
were dying, but the nation hymned the praises of collectivization". RobertConquest (2000). Reflections on a Ravaged Century (1st ed.). New York City,...
historiography on communism and Soviet history, particularly the work of RobertConquest and Richard Pipes on Stalinism, the Great Purge, the Gulag and the...
a literate population and a remarkable scientific superstructure." RobertConquest disputes that conclusion, writing, "Russia had already been fourth...
Conquest 1991, p. 222; Roberts 2006, p. 43. Conquest 1991, p. 223; Service 2004, pp. 402–403; Wettig 2008, p. 20. Conquest 1991, p. 224. Conquest 1991...
have been naïve in his estimation of Soviet intentions. The historian RobertConquest wrote that "Hopkins seems just to have accepted an absurdly fallacious...
was regarded by US historian RobertConquest as one of the first people who made such a prediction. According to a Conquest article published in 1969, "In...
"central London heat island". Tomáš Masaryk R. W. Seton-Watson RobertConquest Norman Davies Robert Fico Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu Jacek Rostowski Jonathan Ross...
has come increasingly under fire for failing to report the famine. RobertConquest was critical of Duranty's reporting in The Great Terror (1968), The...
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