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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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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5. A lot of Conquests work was figuring out simple mechanics of Stalin's rule: how the purges or Ukrainian famine unfolded.
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