Conquest spent 28 years at the Hoover Institution, where he was a senior research fellow. While at Hoover, Conquest again wrote about Stalin’s regime in “The Harvest of Sorrow,” which depicted the ...

Conquest served in the British infantry in World War II and thereafter in the diplomatic service. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire. In 1996 he was named a Companion of the Order of St.

“Robert Conquest set the gold standard for careful research, total integrity, and clarity of expression about the real Soviet Union,” said former Secretary of State and Hoover Institution ...