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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 member of the Communist Party of Great Britain but later wrote several books against Communism.
Aug 5, 2015 · The historian Robert Conquest, who has died at the age of 98, is credited by many as the first to reveal the extent of the horror of Joseph Stalin's regime. His books had a powerful effect on...
Aug 5, 2015 · Among the western historians of the Soviet Union, Robert Conquest, who has died aged 98, had a unique place. In 1989-90 his account of the terror of the 1930s was translated and published in a...
- Eric Homberger
Aug 4, 2015 · Robert Conquest, a historian whose landmark studies of the Stalinist purges and the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s documented the horrors perpetrated by the Soviet regime against its own citizens,...
Aug 5, 2015 · A Renaissance-style thinker, Robert Conquest was a prolific Soviet historian who became the conscience of an era in the war of ideas between communism and Western democracy. As a poet, his work was considered among the most influential in British literary circles.
Aug 5, 2015 · SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — British-born historian Robert Conquest, whose influential works on Soviet history shed light on the terror during the Stalin era, has died. He was 98. Conquest's wife, Elizabeth Neece, said he died Monday of pneumonia in Palo Alto, California.
The late Hoover historian Robert Conquest devoted himself to exposing the truth about Soviet communism and its atrocities, and his writings helped end those atrocities. Why he remains relevant today—and is celebrated as a hero in Eastern European nations, including Ukraine.
