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Robert Conquest, Cold War historian : RIP

Manach · 2015-08-06 13:06:15

The historian Robert Conquest died this month. From a write up in BBC News " Robert Conquest, who has died at the age of 98, is credited by many as the first to reveal the extent of the horror of Joseph Stalin's regime " - http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33788518

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The historian Robert Conquest died this month. From a write up in BBC News
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Robert Conquest, who has died at the age of 98, is credited by many as the first to reveal the extent of the horror of Joseph Stalin's regime
" - http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33788518

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#2 07-08-2015 11:06am
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Would he be better known today, except that left-leaning media and intellectuals in the 60s couldn't accept his conclusions, and accused him of exaggerating Stalin's death toll?

Even a decade after Khruschev's denounciation of Stalin, and that the 60s "New Left" did not back the Soviet Union, the scale of the death and horror was too much to take in perhaps and could undermine many ideas of workers states, collective agriculture, and so on.

Would like the find the original reviews of "The Great Terror", but can't seem to find any online.

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