Robert Conquest (1917–2015)
Auteur de The Great Terror : A Reassessment
A propos de l'auteur
Robert Conquest is the acclaimed author of many works of history, including "The Great Terror" & "The Harvest of Sorrow", both modern classics. (Publisher Provided) George Robert Acworth Conquest was born in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England on July 15, 1917. He was educated at Winchester afficher plus College in England, the University of Grenoble in France, and Magdalen College, Oxford University. During World War II, he joined the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. After studying Bulgarian, he served as an intelligence officer in Bulgaria, where he remained after the war as the press officer at the British Embassy in Sofia. He started out as a poet. He edited volumes of the poetry anthology New Lines, which showcased work by Movement poets. His poetry collections included Between Mars and Venus and Arias from a Love Opera. He also edited Spectrum, a series of five anthologies that presented quality science-fiction stories from the 1940s and 1950s. His science-fiction works included A World of Difference and The Egyptologists written with Kingsley Amis. He is best known as a historian who documented the horrors perpetrated by the Soviet regime against its own citizens. He wrote numerous books on the Soviet system and politics including Power and Politics in the USSR, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine, Russia After Khrushchev, Industrial Workers in the USSR, The Nation Killers: The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities, and Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps. He died from pneumonia on August 3, 2015 at the age of 98. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Robert Conquest
La grande terreur, précédé des "Sanglantes moissons : Les purges staliniennes des années 30" (1968) 188 exemplaires
Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness, A Soviet Spymaster (1994) — Préface — 153 exemplaires
Courage of genius. The Pasternak affaire: a documentary report on its literary and political significance (1961) 4 exemplaires
Common sense about Russia. 3 exemplaires
BETWEEN MARS AND VENUS 3 exemplaires
The Last Empire: Nationality and the Soviet Future (Hoover Press Publication) by Robert Conquest (1986-08-30) (1986) 3 exemplaires
The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Spotlight on Romania. Foreword by Robert Conquest… (1992) — Préface — 2 exemplaires
The veteran [short story] 2 exemplaires
Russia After Krushchev 2 exemplaires
La grande terreur précédé de Sanglantes moissons : Les purges staliniennes des années 30,… (2011) 1 exemplaire
THE RUSSIAN TRADITION. Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Conquest. — Introduction; Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
'Terrorists' in NYRB XLIV/4, 6 March 1997 [review of Pipes' 'Unknown Lenin: from the secret archives' & Lih & co's… 1 exemplaire
The future of communism 1 exemplaire
Den stora terrorn 1 exemplaire
A Long Way to Go (SS) 1 exemplaire
New poems, 1953 : a P.E.N. anthology 1 exemplaire
Velký teror - Nové zhodnocení 1 exemplaire
O Último Império 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror (2004) — Avant-propos — 41 exemplaires
The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion… (1999) — Contributeur — 31 exemplaires
Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States (Soviet and East European Studies) (1993) — Avant-propos — 22 exemplaires
Holding your eight hands; an anthology of science fiction verse (1969) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Conquest, George Robert Acworth
- Date de naissance
- 1917-07-15
- Date de décès
- 2015-08-03
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Palo Alto, California, USA
- Cause du décès
- pneumonia
- Lieux de résidence
- Stanford, California, USA
- Études
- University of Grenoble
University of Oxford (BA|1939|MA|1972|D.Litt|1974|Magdalen College) - Professions
- historian
university professor
poet - Organisations
- Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Movement Poet - Prix et distinctions
- Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (1996)
Fellow, British Academy (1994)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1972)
Fellow, British Interplanetary Society
Officer, Order of the British Empire (1955) (tout afficher 16)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005)
Michael Braude Award for Light Verse (1997)
Richard M. Weaver Award (1999)
Jefferson Lecture (1993)
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
Commander Cross of the Order of Merit (2009)
Cross of Terra Mariana of Estonia (2008)
Order of Yaroslav Mudryi (2005)
Dan David Prize (2012)
Antonovych International Foundation Prize (1987)
Membres
Critiques
Spectrum 3: a third science fiction anthology par Kingsley Amis
F/SF
A must read. This is not ot the first book on the early Soviet Union you should read. Told as a chronicle of events and the author assumed that the reader is familiar with the the people and their roles in the formation of the Soviet revolution and the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
This series of five anthologies seems to have advanced the profile of the genre in the UK, in a sense, making SF respectable there. The Volume three contained, Brian Aldiss "There Is a Tide (New Worlds Feb 1956) Isaac Asimov
The Feeling of Power, James Blish "Bridge (Astounding Feb 1952) Mark Clifton's "Sense from Thought Divide (Astounding Mar 1955) Philip K. Dick's "Second Variety (Space Science Fiction May 1953) A. E. van Vogt's
Resurrection (Astounding Aug 1948), among others. Quite a good read.… (plus d'informations)
The Feeling of Power, James Blish "Bridge (Astounding Feb 1952) Mark Clifton's "Sense from Thought Divide (Astounding Mar 1955) Philip K. Dick's "Second Variety (Space Science Fiction May 1953) A. E. van Vogt's
Resurrection (Astounding Aug 1948), among others. Quite a good read.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 66
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 3,249
- Popularité
- #7,867
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 38
- ISBN
- 156
- Langues
- 15
- Favoris
- 7
