George Robert Acworth Conquest, CMG (born 15 July 1917) — known as Robert Conquest — is an Anglo-American historian and poet best known for his influential works of Soviet history which include The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purges of the 1930s (1968, 4th ed., 2008). According to Christopher Hitchens, Conquest "was and still is the most distinguished and authoritative anti-Communist (and ex-Communist) writing in English". He is currently a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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