Robert Conquest
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Conquest in 1987
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| Born | George Robert Acworth Conquest 15 July 1917 Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England |
| Died | 3 August 2015 (aged 98) Stanford, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Historian, poet |
| Notable awards | See below |
| Spouse |
Joan Watkins (m. 1942; div. 1948) Tatiana Mihailova (m. 1948; div. 1962) Caroleen MacFarlane (m. 1964; div. 1978) Elizabeth Wingate (m. 1979) |
| Children | 3 |
George Robert Acworth Conquest, CMG, OBE, FBA, FAAAS, FRSL, FBIS (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was an English-American historian and poet. Conquest was most notable for his influential works on Soviet history including The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s (1968). He was a longtime research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He wrote more than a dozen books on the Soviet Union. He was a traditional conservative.
Conquest was born on 15 July 1917 in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, to an American father (Robert Folger Wescott Conquest) and an English mother (Rosamund Alys Acworth Conquest). His father served in an American Ambulance Service unit with the French Army in World War I, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre, with Silver Star in 1916.
Conquest was educated at Winchester College, the University of Grenoble, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was an exhibitioner in modern history and took his bachelor's and master's degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and his doctorate in Soviet history. In 1937, after studying at the University of Grenoble, Conquest went up to Oxford, joining both the Carlton Club and, as an "open" member, the Communist Party of Great Britain. Fellow members included Denis Healey and Philip Toynbee.
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