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George Robert Acworth Conquest, CMG, OBE, FBA, FAAAS, FRSL, FBIS 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 . He was a longtime research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He wrote more than a dozen books on the Soviet Union.

✵ 15. July 1917 – 3. August 2015
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The Great Terror
The Great Terror
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Famous Robert Conquest Quotes

“The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.”

Robert Conquest

“There was an old bastard named Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
That's a lot to have done in
But where he did one in
That old bastard Stalin did ten in.”

Robert Conquest

“Truth can thus only percolate in the form of hearsay.”

Robert Conquest book The Great Terror

The Great Terror, pg 754; Quoted in Grover Furr on Robert Conquest http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/08/05/grover-furr-on-robert-conquest/ at stalinsociety.org',' 2015/08/05

“On political matters basically the best, though not infallible, source is rumor …”

Robert Conquest

From Grover Furr on Robert Conquest http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/08/05/grover-furr-on-robert-conquest/ at stalinsociety.org',' 2015/08/05

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