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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
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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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Malvern
- Place of death
- Palo Alto
- Occupation
- poet
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- The Great Terror
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- English-language literature
- Image
- Robert Conquest (cropped).jpg
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- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- name in native language
- George Robert Acworth Conquest
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- manner of death
- natural causes
- interested in
- history
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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.
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