Robert Conquest

Robert Conquest, 1987

George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British-American historian and poet, notable for his influential works on Soviet history, including The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s (1968).

Quotes

• Truth can thus only percolate in the form of hearsay.
  • The Great Terror, pg 754; Quoted in Grover Furr on Robert Conquest at stalinsociety.org',' 2015/08/05

• On political matters basically the best, though not infallible, source is rumor …
  • From Grover Furr on Robert Conquest at stalinsociety.org',' 2015/08/05