George Robert Acworth Conquest

Dr. Robert A. Conquest, CMG OBE, was a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He was the author of twenty-one books on Soviet history, politics, and international affairs, including the classic "The Great Terror" which has been translated into twenty languages-and the acclaimed Harvest of Sorrow (1986). His work is responsible for exposing the vast terror of the Soviet state during the Stalin era. Conquest was also literary editor of the "London Spectator," brought out eight volumes of poetry and one of literary criticism, edited the seminal New Lines anthologies (1955-63), and published a verse translation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic Prussian Nights (1977). He has also published a science fiction novel, A World of Difference (1955) and is joint author, with Kingsley Amis, of another novel, The Egyptologists (1965). He served in the British Foreign Service from 1946 to 1956. Conquest is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, and a Member of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. His honors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005); Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (1996); Order of the British Empire (1956); Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2009), Estonian Cross of Terra Mariana (2008), and the Ukrainian Order of Yaroslav Mudryi (2005). His awards include selection by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the 1993 Jefferson Lecture (the highest honor the U.S. government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities); Richard Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters (1999); Michael Braude Award for Light Verse (American Academy of Arts & Letters, 1997); Peter Shaw Memorial Award (National Association of Scholars, 2001); Alexis de Tocqueville Award, (1992), and the Dan David Prize (2012).