Robert Conquest (1917–2015)
Autore di The Great Terror : A Reassessment
Sull'Autore
Robert Conquest is the acclaimed author of many works of history, including "The Great Terror" & "The Harvest of Sorrow", both modern classics. (Publisher Provided) George Robert Acworth Conquest was born in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England on July 15, 1917. He was educated at Winchester mostra altro College in England, the University of Grenoble in France, and Magdalen College, Oxford University. During World War II, he joined the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. After studying Bulgarian, he served as an intelligence officer in Bulgaria, where he remained after the war as the press officer at the British Embassy in Sofia. He started out as a poet. He edited volumes of the poetry anthology New Lines, which showcased work by Movement poets. His poetry collections included Between Mars and Venus and Arias from a Love Opera. He also edited Spectrum, a series of five anthologies that presented quality science-fiction stories from the 1940s and 1950s. His science-fiction works included A World of Difference and The Egyptologists written with Kingsley Amis. He is best known as a historian who documented the horrors perpetrated by the Soviet regime against its own citizens. He wrote numerous books on the Soviet system and politics including Power and Politics in the USSR, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine, Russia After Khrushchev, Industrial Workers in the USSR, The Nation Killers: The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities, and Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps. He died from pneumonia on August 3, 2015 at the age of 98. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Robert Conquest
Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness, A Soviet Spymaster (1994) — Prefazione — 153 copie
Courage of genius. The Pasternak affaire: a documentary report on its literary and political significance (1961) 4 copie
Common sense about Russia. 3 copie
BETWEEN MARS AND VENUS 3 copie
The Last Empire: Nationality and the Soviet Future (Hoover Press Publication) by Robert Conquest (1986-08-30) (1986) 3 copie
The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Spotlight on Romania. Foreword by Robert Conquest… (1992) — Prefazione — 2 copie
The veteran [short story] 2 copie
Russia After Krushchev 2 copie
La grande terreur précédé de Sanglantes moissons : Les purges staliniennes des années 30,… (2011) 1 copia
THE RUSSIAN TRADITION. Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Conquest. — Introduzione; A cura di — 1 copia
The future of communism 1 copia
Den stora terrorn 1 copia
A Long Way to Go (SS) 1 copia
Velký teror - Nové zhodnocení 1 copia
O Último Império 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion… (1999) — Collaboratore — 31 copie
Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States (Soviet and East European Studies) (1993) — Prefazione — 22 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Conquest, George Robert Acworth
- Data di nascita
- 1917-07-15
- Data di morte
- 2015-08-03
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Palo Alto, California, USA
- Causa della morte
- pneumonia
- Luogo di residenza
- Stanford, California, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Grenoble
University of Oxford (BA|1939|MA|1972|D.Litt|1974|Magdalen College) - Attività lavorative
- historian
university professor
poet - Organizzazioni
- Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Movement Poet - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (1996)
Fellow, British Academy (1994)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1972)
Fellow, British Interplanetary Society
Officer, Order of the British Empire (1955) (mostra tutto 16)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005)
Michael Braude Award for Light Verse (1997)
Richard M. Weaver Award (1999)
Jefferson Lecture (1993)
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
Commander Cross of the Order of Merit (2009)
Cross of Terra Mariana of Estonia (2008)
Order of Yaroslav Mudryi (2005)
Dan David Prize (2012)
Antonovych International Foundation Prize (1987)
Utenti
Recensioni
Stalin : la rivoluzione, il terrore, la guerra di Robert Conquest
Robert Conquest ha scritto un ritratto del sanguinario georgiano, che si concentra su alcuni grandi episodi della sua vita e della sua carriera di dittatore, per trarne una riflessione sugli effetti della sua personalità sulla storia del Novecento. Ne esce la figura di un leader paranoico, che, una volta emerso nella nomenklatura postleniniana grazie alla propria abilità di ingannare gli avversari, manipolare i compagni, e ordire intrighi, nessuno riuscirà più a fermare, rivelandosi la sciagura più grande per tutti i popoli del suo impero.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 66
- Opere correlate
- 8
- Utenti
- 3,248
- Popolarità
- #7,868
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 38
- ISBN
- 156
- Lingue
- 15
- Preferito da
- 7
