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    George Robert Acworth Conquest CMG OBE FBA FRSL (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British-American historian, poet, and novelist. He was briefly a...
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    [citation needed] The term great purge was popularized by the historian Robert Conquest in his 1968 book The Great Terror, whose title was an allusion to the...
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    The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish...
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    their neighbours in some other way" according to historian Robert W. Davies. Robert Conquest argues that the definition of a kulak was later expanded to...
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    perceived political enemies (this understanding is favoured by historian Robert Conquest, amongst others). The economic explanation, in turn as set out by historian...
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  • Robert Conquest which was published in 1968. It gave rise to an alternate title of the period in Soviet history known as the Great Purge. Conquest's title...
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    the dissolution of the Ukrainian nation. In 1986, British historian Robert Conquest published The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine...
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    chauvinism and form a political movement independent of the Nazi control. Robert Conquest described their political program as "democratic" while the Nazis called...
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    Conquest 1991, p. 222; Roberts 2006, p. 43. Conquest 1991, p. 223; Service 2004, pp. 402–403; Wettig 2008, p. 20. Conquest 1991, p. 224. Conquest 1991...
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    executions in total put the number at about 100,000. According to Robert Conquest, a total of 140,000 people were shot in 1917–1922, but Jonathan D....
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