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Robert Conquest

Author of The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine

Includes the names: R. Conquest, Robert Conquest, Роберт Конквест

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Booknotes: Robert Conquest (December 19, 1999)
Robert Conquest discusses Reflections on a Ravaged Century.
Mr. Conquest talked about his book, Reflections on a Ravaged Century, published by W.W. Norton and Company. He examined the role of ideology in shaping the history of the twentieth century, including communism, Marxism and fascism.
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1917-07-15
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male
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UK
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Malvern, Worcestershire, England, UK
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California, USA
Education
University of Grenoble
Oxford University (Magdalen College)
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intelligence officer
historian
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Communist Party
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Michael Braude Award for Light Verse (1997)
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (1996)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005)
Ingersoll Prize (1999)
Jefferson Lecture
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