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Robert Conquest; 1917-2015
Topic Started: Aug 4 2015, 06:10 PM (155 Views)
jon-nyc
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/arts/international/robert-conquest-historian-who-documented-soviet-horrors-dies-at-98.html
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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brenda
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Thank you for your good work. RIP
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
~A.A. Milne
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Renauda
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In his day, he was clearly one of the better historians on the Stalin era.
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jon-nyc
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I think his three laws of politics are under appreciated.


Here is John Derbyshire describing them:

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As best I can remember, they are:

1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.

2. Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.

3. The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Of the Second Law, Conquest gave the Church of England and Amnesty International as examples. Of the Third, he noted that a bureaucarcy sometimes actually IS controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies–e.g. the postwar British secret service.

In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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He was hot when I was an undergraduate political science major. Marxists loved to dismiss him with a proverbial wave of the hand...

because disputing him on serious grounds was much more difficult.
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