Robert Conquest
George Robert Acworth Conquest was a British and American historian, poet, and novelist. He was one of the West’s leading Sovietologists during the Cold War and was influential to both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Conquest was also affiliated with the anticommunist Information Research Department, within the British Foreign Affairs Office.
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- Born in
- Malvern
- Educated at
- Magdalen CollegeUniversity College London
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- 🏆 Presidential Medal of Freedom
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1917
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