What is Robert Conquest?
{{Infobox person | image = Robert Conquest (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Robert Conquest in 1987 | name = Robert Conquest | birth_name = George Robert Acworth Conquest | birth_date = {{birth date|1917|7|15|mf=y|}} | birth_place = [[Great Malvern]], [[Worcestershire]], [[England]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2015|8|4|1917|7|15|mf=y|}} | death_place = [[Stanford, California|Stanford]], [[California]], [[United States|U.S.]] | nationality = English-American | citizenship = United States,<br/>United Kingdom | alma_mater = [[Magdalen College, Oxford]] | residence = | home_town = | influences = | influenced = | notable_works = ''[[The Great Terror|The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s]]'' | other_names = | occupation = Historian, poet | spouse = {{marriage|Joan Watkins|1942|1948}}<br/>{{marriage|Tatiana Mihailova|1948|1962}}<br/>{{marriage|Caroleen MacFarlane|1964|1978}}<br/>{{marriage|Elizabeth Neece Wingate|1979|2015}} (his death) | children = 3 | relations = | parents = | signature = }} '''George Robert Acworth Conquest''' {{postnom|country=GBR|CMG|OBE|FBA|FRSL}} (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015), known as '''Robert Conquest''', was an [[English people|English]]-[[United States|American]] historian and poet. He was best known for his influential works of Soviet history. They include ''The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purges of the 1930s''. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2006/390616.shtml |title=Ukraine honors Robert Conquest with Presidential Medal of Honor |access-date=2013-03-17 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224059/http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2006/390616.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref> Conquest was born on July 15, 1917 in [[Great Malvern]], [[Worcestershire]], [[England]]. He studied at [[Magdalen College, Oxford]]. He was married to Joan Watkins from 1942 until they [[divorce]]d in 1948. Then he was married to Tatiana Mihailova from 1948 until t