British-born historian Robert Conquest, whose influential works on Soviet history shed light on the terror during the Stalin era, has died. He was 98. Conquest’s ...

SAN FRANCISCO – British-born historian Robert Conquest, whose influential works on Soviet history shed light on the terror during the Stalin era, has died. He was ...

Conquest served in the British infantry in World War II and thereafter in the diplomatic service. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire. In 1996 he was named a Companion of the Order of St.

Conquest spent 28 years at the Hoover Institution, where he was a senior research fellow. While at Hoover, Conquest again wrote about Stalin’s regime in “The Harvest of Sorrow,” which depicted the ...

“Robert Conquest set the gold standard for careful research, total integrity, and clarity of expression about the real Soviet Union,” said former Secretary of State and Hoover Institution ...