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Robert Conquest
Sign in to saveAlso known as George Robert Acworth Conquest, J. E. M. Arden, Ted Pauker
British historian and poet
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 15 July 1917
- Died
- 3 August 2015
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Spectrum 5
- Arias from a love opera, and other poems
- Between Mars and Venus
- Bol'shoi terror
- Common sense about Russia
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1988
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 13
- Total plays
- 113
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,770x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,539x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,818x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 39,782x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,488x
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Quotes
- “Truth can thus only percolate in the form of hearsay.”
- “On political matters basically the best, though not infallible, source is rumour at a high political or police level.”
- “One good rule is that the language in Soviet secret documents ordering that action be taken is usually valid, while other information may be mere Party-line myth—as with the 1933 secret instructions to blockade the Ukraine and the Kuban to prevent famine victims escaping northward. The operational order was intended to be obeyed, and it was. The explanation given was false: that the peasants were acting on instructions of Socialist Revolutionaries and the Polish intelligence service.”
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Key facts
- Born
- 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
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom United States
- Education
- Winchester College Magdalen College, Oxford ( MA , DLitt ) University of Grenoble
- Notable works
- The Great Terror (1968) The Harvest of Sorrow (1986)
- Notable awards
- See below
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British and American historian, poet, and novelist. He was one of the West’s leading Sovietologists during the Cold War and was influential to both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Conquest was also affiliated with the anticommunist Information Research Department, within the British Foreign Affairs Office.
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 Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (1986); and Stalin: Breaker of Nations (1991). He was also the author of two novels and several collections of poetry.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robert Conquest” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.