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Robert Conquest

Robert Conquest

Conquest in 1987
Conquest in 1987
BornGeorge Robert Acworth Conquest
(1917-07-15)15 July 1917
Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England
Died3 August 2015(2015-08-03) (aged 98)
Stanford, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Historian
  • poet
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Education
Notable works
Notable awardsSee below
Spouse
Joan Watkins
(m. 1942; div. 1948)
Tatiana Mihailova
(m. 1948; div. 1962)
Caroleen MacFarlane
(m. 1964; div. 1978)
Elizabeth Wingate
(m. 1979)
Children3

George Robert Acworth Conquest CMG OBE FBA FRSL (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British and American historian, poet, and novelist.[1] He was briefly a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain[2] 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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  2. ^ "Stanford historian Robert Conquest, expert on Soviet Union, dies at 98". Stanford University.

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