Historians Robert Conquest

Robert Conquest

Living place: England

Birthday: 15-7-1917

Global rank: #81115

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Who is Historians Robert Conquest?
An Anglo-American historian and author, he is best known for Stalin's The Great Terror: Purge of the Thirties (1968). His other academic works include The Marx School Went Wrong (1970) and Common Sense About Russia (1960).
He was an established poet and member of the Movement, a prominent British literary group.
 
 

Young / Before famous

Me He is the son of an English mother and an American father. He attended Magdalen College, Oxford, among other universities, and received advanced degrees in Soviet politics, philosophy, economics, and history.

Family life info

He was divorced three times before his 1979 marriage to Elizabeth Neece Wingate.

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He criticized the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, among other intellectuals of his time, for turning a blind eye to the violence of the Stalinist regime.

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When was Historians Robert Conquest born?
Robert Conquest was born in 15-7-1917, death year is , at the age of 107.
Where is Historians Robert Conquest's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Robert Conquest was born in England. is a Historians, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Robert Conquest's global rank is 81115 and whose rank is 50 in list of famous Historians.
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Events in 1917 and 15-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Robert Conquest

  • First U.S. combat troops arrive in France as U.S. declares war on Germany (April 6). Background: World War I
  • Third Battle of Ypres is fought. Background: World War I
  • World-wide influenza pandemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S. alone, 500,000 perish. Background: Major U.S. Epidemics
  • Dutch dancer Mata Hari is convicted and executed as a German spy.
  • Government offices are seized and the Romanov's Winter Palace is stormed in Russian October Revolution.

Birthday Robert Conquest (15-7) in history

  • Day 15-7 year 1869: Margarine was patented in France by Hippolyte Mege Mouries.
  • Day 15-7 year 1870: Georgia became the last of the Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union.
  • Day 15-7 year 1918: The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
  • Day 15-7 year 1940: The world's tallest man (8 feet, 11.1 inches), Robert Wadlow, died.
  • Day 15-7 year 1948: John J. Pershing, whose leadership in World War I earned him the title General of the Armies of the United States, died in Washington, DC.
  • Day 15-7 year 1975: The Russian Soyuz and the U.S. Apollo launched. The Apollo-Soyuz mission was the first international manned spaceflight.
  • Day 15-7 year 2010: After 86 days of gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico and several previous attempts to contain the flow, BP caps its leaking oil well.
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