Robert Conquest (1917–2015)
Autor/a de The Great Terror : A Reassessment
Sobre l'autor
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'n més 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'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Robert Conquest
Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness, A Soviet Spymaster (1994) — Prefaci — 154 exemplars
Courage of genius. The Pasternak affaire: a documentary report on its literary and political significance (1961) 4 exemplars
Common sense about Russia. 3 exemplars
BETWEEN MARS AND VENUS 3 exemplars
The Last Empire: Nationality and the Soviet Future (Hoover Press Publication) by Robert Conquest (1986-08-30) (1986) 3 exemplars
The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Spotlight on Romania. Foreword by Robert Conquest… (1992) — Prefaci — 2 exemplars
The veteran [short story] 2 exemplars
Russia After Krushchev 2 exemplars
La grande terreur précédé de Sanglantes moissons : Les purges staliniennes des années 30,… (2011) 1 exemplars
THE RUSSIAN TRADITION. Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Conquest. — Introducció; Editor — 1 exemplars
The future of communism 1 exemplars
Den stora terrorn 1 exemplars
A Long Way to Go (SS) 1 exemplars
New poems, 1953 : a P.E.N. anthology 1 exemplars
Velký teror - Nové zhodnocení 1 exemplars
O Último Império 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion… (1999) — Col·laborador — 31 exemplars
Holding your eight hands; an anthology of science fiction verse (1969) — Col·laborador — 22 exemplars
Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States (Soviet and East European Studies) (1993) — Pròleg — 22 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Conquest, George Robert Acworth
- Data de naixement
- 1917-07-15
- Data de defunció
- 2015-08-03
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
USA - Lloc de naixement
- Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Palo Alto, California, USA
- Causa de la mort
- pneumonia
- Llocs de residència
- Stanford, California, USA
- Educació
- University of Grenoble
University of Oxford (BA|1939|MA|1972|D.Litt|1974|Magdalen College) - Professions
- historian
university professor
poet - Organitzacions
- Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Movement Poet - Premis i honors
- 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-les totes 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)
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Ressenyes
Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology de Kingsley Amis
This anthology first appeared in 1962 and has a good choice of Authors. William Tenn, Algis budrys, Robert Heinlein, Frederick Pohl, Robert Schekley and Clifford Simak. There are three other authors as well. A very worthwhile collection.
A must read. This is not ot the first book on the early Soviet Union you should read. Told as a chronicle of events and the author assumed that the reader is familiar with the the people and their roles in the formation of the Soviet revolution and the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 66
- També de
- 8
- Membres
- 3,259
- Popularitat
- #7,849
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 39
- ISBN
- 156
- Llengües
- 15
- Preferit
- 7
