Robert Conquest

Robert Conquest CMG OBE FBA FRSL
Conquest in 1987
Born	George Robert Acworth Conquest (1917-07-15)15 July 1917 Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England
Died	3 August 2015(2015-08-03) (aged 98) Stanford, California, U.S.
Occupation	Historian, poet
Nationality	British
Citizenship	American
Education	Winchester College
Alma mater	University of Grenoble Magdalen College, Oxford
Notable works	The Great Terror The Harvest of Sorrow
Notable awards	See below
Spouse	Joan Watkins ​ ​ (m. 1942; div. 1948)​ Tatiana Mihailova ​ ​ (m. 1948; div. 1962)​ Caroleen MacFarlane ​ ​ (m. 1964; div. 1978)​ Elizabeth Wingate ​ ​ (m. 1979)​
Children	3

George Robert Acworth Conquest CMG OBE FBA FRSL (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British-American historian, poet, and novelist.^[1] He was briefly a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain but later wrote several books against Communism.

A long-time research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Conquest was most notable for his work on the Soviet Union. His books included The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s (1968); The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine (1986); and Stalin: Breaker of Nations (1991). He was also the author of two novels and several collections of poetry.