SAN FRANCISCO – British-born historian Robert Conquest, whose influential works on Soviet history shed light on the terror during the Stalin era, has died. He was ...

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Robert Conquest, dead at 98, was a scholar who studied the late and unlamented Soviet Union, but always remained more scholar than Soviet--which explains why he was denied the rave reviews that were ...

Mr. Conquest’s master work, “The Great Terror,” was the first detailed account of the Stalinist purges from 1937 to 1939. He estimated that under Stalin, 20 million people perished from famines, ...

E. H. Carr suggested in his lectures that formed What is History? that one can only really understand history through understanding the historian. To understand the historian, one then casts an eye ...

The Aug. 3 death of historian Robert Conquest reminded me of the great debt owed him by all the democracies. Not a writer of popular history or historical novels, Conquest was all business. His ...

This occasionally brilliant and at times idiosyncratic book is a frontal assault on the pieties of the left. At its heart is Conquest's critique of a deluded idealization of the Soviet Union and the ...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of The Great Terror, Robert Conquest’s classic exposé of Soviet tyranny. Conquest reflects on the book’s history and continuing relevance in an essay posted at the ...

“Robert Conquest set the gold standard for careful research, total integrity, and clarity of expression about the real Soviet Union,” said George P. Shultz, a former secretary of state and Hoover ...

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 ...

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 ...