Robert Conquest

1917 - 2015

country of citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Magdalen College, Winchester College, Joseph Fourier University, University College London, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

occupation: historian, writer, science fiction writer, poet, editor

award received: Michael Braude Award for Light Verse, Jefferson Lecture, Antonovych prize, Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Dan David Prize, Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class, Shevchenko National Prize

George Robert Acworth Conquest (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. 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)