Robert Conquest
Biographic Data
| ID | 965415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Conquest |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Conquest |
| SIGNATURE | CONQUEST R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hoover Institution |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Bloody Flag Post-Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe
A literary soldier in the cold war
Reflections on a Ravaged Century
Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson greatest living modern historian. As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next. Graced with one of the most acute gifts for political prescience since Orwell, Conquest assigns responsibility for our century's cataclysms not to impersonal economic or social forces but to the distorted ideologies of revolutionary Marxi…
Comment on Wheatcroft
(a) He charges me (p. 320) with, disgracefully and typically, speaking of my academic opponents as 'Neo-Stalinist revisionists' (in an English-language interview with Katrina Vanden Houvel published in Moscow News). What I actually said was, of Western writers who had implied that there was not much of a terror, 'A few were Stalinists or semi-Stalinists-for remember, there are admirers of Stalin outside the USSR too! But most seem simply to have …
Victims of Stalinism
FOR ALL ITS IMPRESSIVE-LOOKING TABULATIONS, Wheatcroft's article1, while making an occasional good point, is fundamentally flawed. His claim to present the true, 'archival' totals for the victims of Stalinism is fallacious. He has simply accepted Kruglov's report, for no apparent reason, and incorporated the Shvemik report, at the same time using the Zemskov figures for Gulag. These are in any case incompatible. We are all inclined to accept the …
Stalin’s Victims
Professor Davies asks me to withdraw estimates of the casualties under Stalinism which I advanced over a quarter of a century ago. I am happy to do so—having done so already on several occasions; but I must also reply to his own re-misstating of those estimates
Masterclass
Excess Deaths in the Soviet Union
I am sure that R.W. Davies, usually a rigorously accurate presenter even of facts which tell against his views, would wish you to correct some of the errors he presents in his article ‘Forced Labour Under Stalin’. I have a reasonable claim to this, for he gives my
The humanities, in memoriam
Robert Conquest: Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution in Stanford, California A century ago, Matthew Arnold in t roduced into c o m m o n English usage the word Philistine. He characterized the Philistine as ~a strong, dogged opponen t o f the chosen people, of the children of light. But we should r e m e m b e r that Israel's early troubles weren ' t always f rom this straightforward foe. O n the o ther flank lay a more insidious ene…
Stalin Old and New
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Award Recipients
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Stalin
Stalin breaker of nations
Robert Conquest is the foremost authority on the Stalinist period of Soviet history. The culmination of a lifetime's work, this book is a masterly portrait of a man who 'perhaps more than any other determined the course of the twentieth century'. Conquest focuses on Stalin's terrifying character, perhaps the closest to a monster that humankind has ever produced. Stalin emerges as a man 'unnatural' and 'unreal', who gave his personal authority to …
A letter to a Soviet historian
Excess deaths and camp numbers
I DID NOT ANSWER Stephen Wheatcroft's article in the April 1990 issue even though part of its declared purpose was to expose the errors of my 'literary' evidence as compared with his own 'professional, objective' approach. This was because I had every hope that Soviet material would fairly soon discredit his supposedly weighty set of tables and this has, indeed, largely happened (in, for example, Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya, nos. 6-8, 1990; V…
Stalin and the Kirov Murder
The Harvest of Sorrow
Stalin and the Kirov Murder
Revisionizing Stalin's Russia
If Sheila Fitzpatrick wishes to concentrate on social matters (or other revisionists wish to concentrate on administrative or economic matters), no one can complain except to the degree that, as Stephen Cohen points out, mass terror is also a social phenomenon; indeed, it is a major, an overwhelming one. (The Great Depression is still present in the American social consciousness after half a century, and it was far less of an event than the killi…
The Harvest of Sorrow
The Harvest of Sorrow
The Last Empire
The historical background, the present position, and the future prospects of both the non-Russian and Russian peoples are considered in their many aspects, as are the maneuvers of the Communist regime to suppress, appease, or make use of them. The future of the Soviet Union, and thus of the world, depends greatly on whether, and how, the Communist leadership, whose own ideology has lost most of its appeal, can adjust to a new surge of national fe…
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What Is Terror
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Reflections on a Ravaged Century
Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson greatest living modern historian. As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next. Graced with one of the most acute gifts for political prescience since Orwell, Conquest assigns responsibility for our century's cataclysms not to impersonal economic or social forces but to the distorted ideologies of revolutionary Marxi…
The Great Terror
The Last Empire
The historical background, the present position, and the future prospects of both the non-Russian and Russian peoples are considered in their many aspects, as are the maneuvers of the Communist regime to suppress, appease, or make use of them. The future of the Soviet Union, and thus of the world, depends greatly on whether, and how, the Communist leadership, whose own ideology has lost most of its appeal, can adjust to a new surge of national fe…
Excess deaths and camp numbers
I DID NOT ANSWER Stephen Wheatcroft's article in the April 1990 issue even though part of its declared purpose was to expose the errors of my 'literary' evidence as compared with his own 'professional, objective' approach. This was because I had every hope that Soviet material would fairly soon discredit his supposedly weighty set of tables and this has, indeed, largely happened (in, for example, Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya, nos. 6-8, 1990; V…
Kolyma
The Harvest of Sorrow
Stalin
Stalin and the Kirov Murder
Forced labour statistics
The Harvest of Sorrow
Stalin and the Kirov Murder
The Limits of Detente
1IKE many other observers, Karl Marx noted that from time of Peter Great Russian foreign policy showed a ^general tendency merely to expansionism, but to un power. He put this even more strongly in a speech of January 1876, when spoke of Russia's lodestar being the empire of world. Engels, too, wrote of her dreaming about universal supremacy. They were referring to any fixed plan, or wholly explicit intention, but rather to spirit and character o…
The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities
The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities
Power and Policy in the U.S.S.R. The Study of Soviet Dynastics
The Pasternak Affair
Science Fiction and Literature
The Pasternak Affair
Christian Symbolism in “Lucky Jim”
Russia after Khrushchev
Russia after Khrushchev
Far Out
The Limits of Detente
1IKE many other observers, Karl Marx noted that from time of Peter Great Russian foreign policy showed a ^general tendency merely to expansionism, but to un power. He put this even more strongly in a speech of January 1876, when spoke of Russia's lodestar being the empire of world. Engels, too, wrote of her dreaming about universal supremacy. They were referring to any fixed plan, or wholly explicit intention, but rather to spirit and character o…
The Great Terror
The Great Terror
Agricultural Workers in the U.S.S.R
Stalin's Successors
The Nation Killers. The Soviet Deporation of Nationalities
Done into English
A Childhood in Prison
A New Russia? A New World
THERE is a growing feeling, in the West as well as in the So viet Union itself, that there are prospects, growing prospects, of a New Russia. There is a feeling, whatever the immediate state of Brezhnev's health, that the fairly near future must see a break up of the logjam created by a top leadership all of whose members are aged around 70. But the impression, one feels, goes deeper than this. Russia is seen to be at a social and economic dead e…
The Russian Tradition
The Soviet Union since the Fall of Khrushchev
Kolyma
Present Danger
Forced labour statistics
The Last Empire
The historical background, the present position, and the future prospects of both the non-Russian and Russian peoples are considered in their many aspects, as are the maneuvers of the Communist regime to suppress, appease, or make use of them. The future of the Soviet Union, and thus of the world, depends greatly on whether, and how, the Communist leadership, whose own ideology has lost most of its appeal, can adjust to a new surge of national fe…
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