Robert Conquest

George Robert Acworth Conquest  (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015), known as  Robert Conquest, was an English-American historian and poet. He was best known for his influential works of Soviet history. They include The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purges of the 1930s. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2005. Conquest was born on July 15, 1917 in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford. 

He was married to Joan Watkins from 1942 until they divorced in 1948. Then he was married to Tatiana Mihailova from 1948 until they divorced 1962. Then he was married to Caroleen MacFarlane from 1964 until they divorced in 1978. Then he was married to Elizabeth Neece Wingate from 1979 until his death in 2015. He had two sons from Watkins and one step-daughter from Wingate. Conquest died in Stanford, California from respiratory failure caused by Parkinson's disease at the age of 98.
 Related pages 
List of poets from North America
References

Other websites
 Scourge and Poet, a profile of Robert Conquest
 articles by and about Robert Conquest at the New York Review of Books
 Where Ignorance Isn't Bliss, article by Robert Conquest at National Review Online 
 His biography  at the Hoover Institution
 Great Terror at 40 

Category:1917 births
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Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:American historians
Category:American poets
Category:English historians
Category:English poets
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Category:People from Worcestershire