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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4. As against other historians who got bogged down in theories of totalitarianism or Russian character, Conquest focused on what happened.
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@HeerJeet My thesis advisor at LSE, Leonard Schapiro, was also a giant."Origins of the Communist Autocracy" &definitive "History of CPSU"1/2 -
@AKimCampbell Schapiro, yes. He and Conquest were colleagues and sometimes collaborators, if I remember correctly.
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@HeerJeet "Origins" showed clearly that Stalin was not a perversion of Leninism but had its origins in Leninism. Annoyed Soviet apologists.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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