Robert Conquest is the author of some thirty books of history, biography, poetry, fiction, and criticism. The recipient of many honors and awards, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is at present Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
"It's hard to overestimate the impact that Robert Conquest's extraordinary study had on the West's perceptions of Soviet history. Using rare Soviet materials, some published during the Khrushchev thaw, others in self-published samizdat format, the British historian put together an authoritative chronicle of Stalin's murderous reign. Western communists and fellow travelers dismissed the book as propaganda. But when Soviet archives were partially opened in 1991, Conquest's estimates of 700,000 "legal" executions during 1937-38 -- and of the total number of other deaths thanks to the Soviet terror campaigns ("hardly lower than some fifteen million") -- were proven chillingly accurate." -- Owen Matthews, N/A, Wall Street Journal"Anthony Powell once wrote of Robert Conquest that he had a 'capacity for taking enormous pains in relation to any enterprise in hand.' It is beyond dispute that, forty years after the publication of The Great Terror, this judgment requires no reassessment."--Michael Weiss, The New Criterion"The volume that tore the mask away from Stalinism before most people had even heard of Solzhenitsyn."--Christopher Hitchens, Wall Street Journal
"It's hard to overestimate the impact that Robert Conquest's
extraordinary study had on the West's perceptions of Soviet
history. Using rare Soviet materials, some published during the
Khrushchev thaw, others in self-published samizdat format, the
British historian put together an authoritative chronicle of
Stalin's murderous reign. Western communists and fellow travelers
dismissed the book as propaganda. But when Soviet archives were
partially opened in 1991, Conquest's estimates of 700,000 "legal"
executions during 1937-38 -- and of the total number of other
deaths thanks to the Soviet terror campaigns ("hardly lower than
some fifteen million") -- were proven chillingly accurate." -- Owen
Matthews, N/A, Wall Street Journal
"Anthony Powell once wrote of Robert Conquest that he had a
'capacity for taking enormous pains in relation to any enterprise
in hand.' It is beyond dispute that, forty years after the
publication of The Great Terror, this judgment requires no
reassessment."--Michael Weiss, The New Criterion
"The volume that tore the mask away from Stalinism before most
people had even heard of Solzhenitsyn."--Christopher Hitchens,
Wall Street Journal
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