Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Robert Conquest
Born: July 15, 1917
Died: August 3, 2015 (aged 98)
Bio: George Robert Acworth Conquest was a British-American historian and poet, notable for his influential works on Soviet history including The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s.
Known for:
- The Great Terror (1968)
- The Harvest of Sorrow (1986)
- Stalin (1991)
- Reflections on a ravaged century (1999)
- The Dragons of Expectation (2005)