# Robert Conquest
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George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) 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.
Stalin, Collectivisation and the Grain Crisis 1927-8
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In this episode of Explaining History, Nick delves into the critical years of 1928-1929, exploring the mindset of the Soviet leadership on the eve of the Great Famine. Drawing from Robert Conquest’s seminal work The Harvest of Sorrow, we examine how Stalin’s paranoia and Marxist...
Yes-Men and the Fall of Leaders — From Trump to History’s Authoritarians
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In this episode, Jen & Carolyn dive into the phenomenon of leaders who surround themselves not with the best and brightest, but with the most loyal and the most sycophantic. Yes-men. Lapdogs. Toadies. Whatever you call them, they have shaped history — and often brought down the v...
Ep29 S2E7 The Egyptologists (1965)
What is the Metropolitan Egyptological Society and why does it discourage public and media enquiries? It is impossible to answer this question without spoilers so I've included a warning at the point where all is revealed. I discuss the co-author Robert Conquest, how the protagonists got stuck in...
Every Dictator of North Korea, Explained (1945-now)
00:00-12:13 Intro and Historical Context12:24-49:44 Rise of Sung49:45-1:53:00 Sung's governance1:53:01-2:33:57 Kim Jong Il2:33:58-2:56:39 Kim Jong UnSourcing:“Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-Sung: Tertitskiy, Fyodor.” Accessed September 30, 2025.Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer’s ...
Law, Liberty, and Cass (Sunstein)
Introducing this Q&A, I say,
… our guest today is Cass Sunstein, the law professor, the legal thinker, the writer. For many years, he taught at the University of Chicago, and for many years since, he has taught at Harvard. He has written a profusion of books, to go with countless articles—though ...
Law, Liberty, and Cass (Sunstein)
Introducing this Q&A, I say,
… our guest today is Cass Sunstein, the law professor, the legal thinker, the writer. For many years, he taught at the University of Chicago, and for many years since, he has taught at Harvard. He has written a profusion of books, to go with countless articles—though ...
E61: The (not so) Hidden Costs of "Equality" - Why Communism Fails
In episode 61, Edgar Mills examines communism and democratic socialism from a classical liberal perspective, comparing central planning to free markets and explaining why these doctrines repeatedly fail.
He reviews historical evidence and human costs under regimes like Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot, ...
The Mullah and Pope; The End of Borderless Europe
Global View Columnist Bret Stephens and Editorial Board Member Mary Kissel talk about the mullah and the pope, the slow death of borderless Europe and Robert Conquest in memoriam.
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Episode 299 - The Third Law
The best way to understand bureaucratic and institutional behavior is to assume it is run by a secret cabal of its enemies. Robert Conquest
"Epistemology of Poetry" by Robert Conquest
Read this essay and poem on Substack!
Topics discussed include:
-Poets as actual legislators
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn
-"The Great Terror" by Robert Conquest
-The Movement redux
-"The Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant
-The epistemological turn
-Hyper-Apollonianism as contrary to poetry
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