The historian, researcher of the Stalinist repressions, Robert Conquest died

Robert Conquest is the author of more than 20 books dedicated to various aspects of the history of the USSR, the most famous of which "Big Terror: Stalinist purges of the thirties" was published in 1968

In the United States, at the age of 98, the British and American historian, Sovietologist Robert Conquest, died. According to his widow, Conquest died on August 3 from pneumonia.

Robert Conquest is the author of more than 20 books on various aspects of the history of the USSR. Its book "Big Terror: Stalin's Cleaning of the thirties" published in 1968 is considered in the West one of the most authoritative and well -known works about this period of Soviet history.

For the past few decades, Conquest worked at the Goverov Institute in the United States. Robert Conquest was awarded the Order of the British Empire. In November 2005, he was awarded George Bush with the presidential freedom medal. In June 2006, he was awarded the state award of Ukraine - the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise - in recognition of the study of the Holodomor.

Radio Liberty repeatedly talked about Robert Consum, in particular, in 2008, when his book "Big Terror" turned 40 years old . Ivan Tolstoy spoke of the convey’s work in the program “Myths and Reputation” .