George Robert Acworth Conquest CMG OBE FBA FRSL (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British and American historian, poet, and novelist. He was briefly...
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Soviet Union. The term "great purge" was popularized by the historian Robert Conquest in his 1968 book The Great Terror, whose title was an allusion to the...
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Robert Conquest which was published in 1968. It gave rise to an alternate title of the period in Soviet history known as the Great Purge. Conquest's title...
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Collectivization and the Terror-Famine is a 1986 book by British historian Robert Conquest published by the Oxford University Press. It was written with the assistance...
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Holodomor genocide question (section Robert Conquest)
the dissolution of the Ukrainian nation. In 1986, British historian Robert Conquest published The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine...
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perceived political enemies (this understanding is favoured by historian Robert Conquest, amongst others). The economic explanation, in turn as set out by historian...
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organisation away from the kulaks meant that, according to historian Robert Conquest, "peasants with a couple of cows or five or six acres [2 or 2.5 ha]...
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of Nations is a biography of Joseph Stalin by author and historian Robert Conquest. It was published in 1991 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Penguin Books...
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executions in total put the number at about 100,000. According to Robert Conquest, a total of 140,000 people were shot in 1917–1922, but Jonathan D....
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класса» Robert Conquest (1986) The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505180-7. Robert Service:...
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The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish...
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actual Gulag death toll are usually higher because historians such as Robert Conquest took into account the likelihood of unreliable record keeping. According...
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exemplified by the work of Robert Sheckley. He further displayed his devotion to the genre in editing, with the Sovietologist Robert Conquest, the science-fiction...
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Jew is a potential spy". Robert Conquest stated that although Stalin had Jewish associates, he promoted antisemitism. Robert Service cautioned that there...
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Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn and Robert Conquest. The Movement was quintessentially English in character; poets from...
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The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was a pivotal event in the history of the Americas, marked by the collision of the Aztec Triple Alliance and the...
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of Islamism. According to a 2003 profile in The Guardian, historian Robert Conquest favoured a British withdrawal from the European Union in favour of...
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Ehlert in 1976, and it was officially first translated into English by Robert Conquest in 1977. Critical reaction was mixed. The New York Times reviewed it...
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Seventeen Moments in Soviet History. 2015-06-17. Retrieved 2018-03-25. Robert Conquest, The Great Terror, 1971 [ISBN missing] [page needed] R. W. Davies,...
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have been naïve in his estimation of Soviet intentions. The historian Robert Conquest wrote that "Hopkins seems just to have accepted an absurdly fallacious...
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a literate population and a remarkable scientific superstructure." Robert Conquest disputes that conclusion, writing, "Russia had already been fourth...
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Look up Conquest or conquest in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Conquest is the act of military subjugation of an enemy by force of arms. Conquest may also...
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has come increasingly under fire for failing to report the famine. Robert Conquest was critical of Duranty's reporting in The Great Terror (1968), The...
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2007 Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet collectivization and the terror-famine, Oxford University Press US, 1987 p.196. Robert Conquest, The...
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was a Norman adventurer remembered for his conquest of southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century. Robert was born into the Hauteville family in Normandy...
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repressions in Azerbaijan Hildermeier, Die Sowjetunion, pp. 38ff. Robert Conquest (1986) The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine...
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were dying, but the nation hymned the praises of collectivization". Robert Conquest (2000). Reflections on a Ravaged Century (1st ed.). New York City,...
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has disagreed with many historians of the Soviet Union, including Robert Conquest, Sergey Romanov, Timothy Snyder, and Stephen Kotkin, and accused them...
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four stanzas from the poem, which differ somewhat from those above. Robert Conquest and John Blakeway, a British diplomat, wrote a sequel recounting the...
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JSTOR 20030526. Conquest, Robert (2001). Reflections on a Ravaged Century (New ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-32086-2. Conquest, Robert (2002)...
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