About Robert Conquest
George Robert Acworth Conquest was a British and American historian, poet, and novelist. He was one of the West’s leading Sovietologists during the Cold War and was influential to both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Conquest was also affiliated with the anticommunist Information Research Department, within the British Foreign Affairs Office.
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Awards & Honors
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Antonovych prize
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Fellow of the British Academy
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Presidential Medal of Freedom
Michael Braude Award for Light Verse
Dan David Prize
Shevchenko National Prize
Jefferson Lecture
