Robert Conquest, a historian who laid bare the murders, starvation and fear wreaked upon the Soviet population by Stalin's regime and whose books, most prominently "The Great Terror," were widely regarded as classics in their field, died Aug. 3 at a hospital in Stanford, Calif. He was 98.
Washington Post: Robert Conquest, historian who chronicled Stalin’s crimes, dies at 98
Then-U.S. President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award, to historian Robert Conquest in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 9, 2005 in Washington, D.C.
