2. Of the major anti-communist historians of the USSR -- along with Pipes, Ulam, Wolfe, etc -- Conquest to me most valuable.
1. Since I told a rather gossipy story about the late Robert Conquest earlier, I want to make amends by talking about his scholarship.
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3. What distinguished Conquest's work from the rather arcane field of Kremlinology was his empiricism.
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@princeflorizel@HeerJeet that’s pretty much my vague memory—that Byatt types took SF seriously largely b/c of New MapsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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