The Anglo-American historian, author and poet, Robert Conquest, who painstakingly documented the human cost of Soviet communism under Lenin and Stalin, died last month aged 98. Robert Conquest: born July 15, 1917; died August 3, 2015 Born in the year Lenin’s Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, Conquest himself became, briefly, a communist in the 1930s. However, like other notable former communists George Orwell and Arthur Koestler, he became one of communism’s most redoubt…
