Robert Conquest

Also known as George Robert Acworth Conquest, J. E. M. Arden, Ted Pauker

British historian and poet

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Born: 15 July 1917
Died: 3 August 2015
Works: 26

Top works

Spectrum 5
Arias from a love opera, and other poems
Between Mars and Venus
Bol'shoi terror
Common sense about Russia

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Writing

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Type: Group
Origin: United States
Active from: 1988

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Total plays: 113

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5 total works indexed

Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 94,957x
Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 55,888x
Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 45,549x
Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 38,939x
The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 38,336x

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Quotes

“Truth can thus only percolate in the form of hearsay.”
“On political matters basically the best, though not infallible, source is rumour at a high political or police level.”
“One good rule is that the language in Soviet secret documents ordering that action be taken is usually valid, while other information may be mere Party-line myth—as with the 1933 secret instructions to blockade the Ukraine and the Kuban to prevent famine victims escaping northward. The operational order was intended to be obeyed, and it was. The explanation given was false: that the peasants were acting on instructions of Socialist Revolutionaries and the Polish intelligence service.”

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Key facts

Born: George Robert Acworth Conquest , ( 1917-07-15 ) 15 July 1917, Great Malvern , Worcestershire, England
Died: 3 August 2015 (2015-08-03) (aged 98), Stanford, California , U.S.
Occupation: Historian poet
Citizenship: United Kingdom United States
Education: Winchester College Magdalen College, Oxford ( MA , DLitt ) University of Grenoble
Notable works: The Great Terror (1968) The Harvest of Sorrow (1986)
Notable awards: See below

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date of birth: 1917-00-00
Commons category: Robert Conquest
date of death: 2015-00-00
name in native language: George Robert Acworth Conquest
start of work period: 1960-00-00

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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 one of the West’s leading Sovietologists during the Cold War and was influential to both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Conquest was also affiliated with the anticommunist Information Research Department, within the British Foreign Affairs Office.

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 Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (1986); and Stalin: Breaker of Nations (1991). He was also the author of two novels and several collections of poetry.