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    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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    their neighbours in some other way" according to historian Robert W. Davies. Robert Conquest argues that the definition of a kulak was later expanded to...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Conquest 1991, p. 222; Roberts 2006, p. 43. Conquest 1991, p. 223; Service 2004, pp. 402–403; Wettig 2008, p. 20. Conquest 1991, p. 224. Conquest 1991...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Robert, where an Old English cognate form (Hrēodbēorht, Hrodberht, Hrēodbēorð, Hrœdbœrð, Hrœdberð, Hrōðberχtŕ) had existed before the Norman Conquest...
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    2307/1173843, JSTOR 1173843 Conquest, Robert (1970), The Nation Killers, New York: Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-333-10575-7 Conquest, Robert (2007) [1990], The Great...
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  • Jew is a potential spy". Robert Conquest stated that although Stalin had Jewish associates, he promoted anti-Semitism. Robert Service cautioned that there...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • was regarded by US historian Robert Conquest as one of the first people who made such a prediction. According to a Conquest article published in 1969, "In...
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  • that meant conquest of the "four quarters", in a military or a moral context. In medieval times, it came to refer to the religious conquest by reputed...
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