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George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British-American historian and poet. He was briefly a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain but later wrote several books against Communism.
A long-time research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Conquest was most notable for his work on the Soviet Union. His books included The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s (1968); The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine (1986); and Stalin: Breaker of Nations (1991). He was also the author of two novels and several collections of poetry.
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GenderMale
Birthday1917-07-15
Deathday2015-08-03 (98 years old)
Birth PlaceMalvern, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America
AwardsDan David Prize, Michael Braude Award for Light Verse, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, Antonovych prize, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Jefferson Lecture, Shevchenko National Prize, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Fellow of the British Academy
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