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| Robert Conquest; 1917-2015 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 4 2015, 06:10 PM (155 Views) | |
| jon-nyc | Aug 4 2015, 06:10 PM Post #1 |
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Cheers
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/arts/international/robert-conquest-historian-who-documented-soviet-horrors-dies-at-98.html |
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| brenda | Aug 5 2015, 08:40 AM Post #2 |
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..............
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Thank you for your good work. RIP |
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| Renauda | Aug 5 2015, 03:40 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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 | Aug 5 2015, 03:45 PM Post #4 |
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Cheers
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I think his three laws of politics are under appreciated. Here is John Derbyshire describing them:
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| Piano*Dad | Aug 5 2015, 04:59 PM Post #5 |
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Bull-Carp
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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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