Robert Conquest

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Robert Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was one of Britain's most respected historians. He was a long-time Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, U.S.A. He specialised in research of Stalin's Russia. He was initially a poet and also is known for his political works.

His works include:

  • New Poems 1953
  • Poems (1955)
  • Back to Life: Poems from Behind the Iron Curtain (1958)
  • Russia After Kruschev (1965)
  • Industrial workers in the USSR (1967)
  • The Egyptologists [with Kingsley Ames] (1968).
  • Lenin (1972)
  • Present Danger - Towards A Foreign Policy (1979).
  • The Harvest of Sorrow (1986) on the enforced collectivisation and famines in the Ukraine.
  • Last Empire:Nationality and the Soviet Future (1986).
  • Tyrants and Typewriters - Communiques in the struggle for truth (1989).
  • Stalin and the Kirov Murder (1989).
  • The Great Terror (1968/1990) a study of Stalin's 1930s purges in which millions died.
  • Stalin: Breaker of Nations (1991).
  • Stalin (1999).
  • Reflections on a Ravaged Century: Reign of Rogue Ideologies (1999)
  • The Dragons of Expectation: Reality and Delusion in the Course of History (2005)
  • Poems (2009).

In addition, he translated Alexander Solzhenitsyn's book of wartime memories, Prussian Nights in 1977.