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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“The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,—the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,—at least apparently,—but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)