Robert Conquest warned us about the complete degradation, torture and murder that is part and parcel of a centrally planned social order. His books, including "The Great Terror" told of an unimaginable world that turned to be even worse than he described. m/r
Robert Conquest & the Soviet Union's Great Terror| National Review Online
by GEORGE WILL August 8, 2015
History books can be historic events, making history by ending important arguments. They can make it impossible for any intellectually honest person to assert certain propositions that once enjoyed considerable currency among people purporting to care about evidence.
The author of one such book, Robert Conquest, an Englishman who spent many years at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, has died at 98, having outlived the Soviet Union that he helped to kill with information. Historian, poet, journalist, and indefatigable controversialist, Conquest was born when Soviet Russia was, in 1917, and in early adulthood he was a Communist. Then, combining a convert’s zeal and a scholar’s meticulousness, he demolished the doctrine that the Soviet regime was a recognizable variant of the European experience and destined to “convergence” toward Western norms.
Books do not win wars, hot or cold, but they can help to sustain the will to win protracted conflict, producing clarity about the nature of an evil adversary.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422253/robert-conquest-death-soviet-union
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