Robert Conquest

Robert Conquest was a British-American historian and poet.
* He was born in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England, on July 15, 1917.
* He studied at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford.
* He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1937, but left the party in 1943.
* He served in the British Army during World War II.
* After the war, he worked for the British Foreign Office and the Information Research Department.
* He became a full-time historian in 1956.
* He is best known for his work on the Soviet Union, particularly his books The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s (1968) and The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine (1986).
* He died in Stanford, California, on August 3, 2015.