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Robert Conquest

1917 - 2015

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George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British and American historian, poet and novelist. He was briefly a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain but later wrote several books condemning 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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Conquest is the 214th most popular historian (down from 200th in 2019), the 2,247th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,965th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Robert Conquest ranks 214 out of 561. Before him are Simon Dubnow, Edgar Quinet, Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Moritz Cantor, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, and Guo Pu. After him are Anthony Blunt, Johannes Aventinus, Deborah Lipstadt, Annius of Viterbo, Gerardus Vossius, and H. J. R. Murray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Robert Conquest ranks 147. Before him are Katharine Graham, Celeste Holm, Đỗ Mười, Han Suyin, Sameera Moussa, and Mongo Santamaría. After him are Zoltán Fábri, Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin, Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria, Imre Németh, Leopoldo Trieste, and El Santo. Among people deceased in 2015, Robert Conquest ranks 147. Before him are Vicente Aranda, Carlo Furno, Harald Nielsen, Sergio Sollima, Władysław Bartoszewski, and Klaus Roth. After him are Frances Oldham Kelsey, Egon Bahr, Dean Jones, Ernst Fuchs, Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and Mile Mrkšić.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Conquest ranks 2,247 out of 8,785. Before him are Bobby Smith (1933), Jethro Tull (1674), FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788), William Blackstone (1723), David Seaman (1963), and Eric Woolfson (1945). After him are Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), Anthony Blunt (1907), Robert Broom (1866), John Houghton (1931), Johnny Herbert (1964), and Elizabeth de Burgh (1289).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Robert Conquest ranks 19. Before him are E. P. Thompson (1924), C. Northcote Parkinson (1909), Steven Runciman (1903), Ian Kershaw (1943), Antony Beevor (1946), and William of Malmesbury (1080). After him are Anthony Blunt (1907), H. J. R. Murray (1868), Tony Judt (1948), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), A. H. M. Jones (1904), and John Foxe (1516).

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