Robert Conquest

British-American historian and poet who documented Soviet mass atrocities — The Great Terror and Harvest of Sorrow — when most Western intellectuals were either denying or minimizing them.

The Great Terror: the first systematic history of Stalin's purges — documentation of the scale of executions and imprisonment that was dismissed by Western Sovietologists at the time and confirmed by Soviet archives after 1991. Harvest of Sorrow: the Ukrainian famine (Holodomor) as deliberate starvation. His estimates, regarded as alarmist at publication, were confirmed or exceeded by archival evidence.