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 one of the West’s leading Sovietologists during …

Robert Conquest is a man of contradictions: He has been called “a comic poet of genius” and “a love poet of considerable force” – but he made his mark as one of the first to expose the horrors of …

Oct 12, 2022 · The late Hoover historian Robert Conquest devoted himself to exposing the truth about Soviet communism and its atrocities, and his writings helped end those atrocities. Why he remains …

Robert Conquest, a British intelligence officer, diplomat, historian, science fiction writer, and poet, was born on July 15, 1917, to an American businessman father and an English mother.

Mar 7, 2016 · In 1955 and 1963 Conquest edited the influential New Lines anthologies, and in 1962-1963 he was literary editor of the London Spectator. He was the author of twenty-one books on …

Even though there were few illusions about Soviet Russia, Conquest’s book opened many eyes to the full scale of Soviet Russia’s horror under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. He was awarded the …

Jul 7, 1992 · G. Robert A. Conquest, CMG, OBE, (1917–2015) was Senior Research Fellow and Scholar-Curator of the Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States Collection in the Hoover …

Robert Conquest was born in Great Malvern, England, in 1917. The author of eight volumes of poetry, including Between Mars and Venus (1962) and Arias From a Love Opera (1969), Conquest is better …

Robert Conquest, the son of a wealthy American, was born in Malvern on 15th July, 1917. After Winchester he studied politics, philosophy and economics at Magdalen College, Oxford.

George Robert Acworth Conquest CMG OBE FBA FRSL (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015), known as Robert Conquest, was an English - American historian and poet. He was best known for his …