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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2015

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2015
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      2. Of the major anti-communist historians of the USSR -- along with Pipes, Ulam, Wolfe, etc -- Conquest to me most valuable.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2015
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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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2015
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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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2015
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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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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2015
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      6. Of course, as with all fact-based research Conquest got revised at margins, but basic narrative structures he created were sturdy.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2015
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      7. In many other instances I'm suspicious of this style of old-fashioned English empiricism but in a highly charged field it was a tonic.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2015
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      8. About Conquest's many extra-curricular activities I'll say: poetry & limericks enjoyable, literary criticism dubious, pranks obnoxious.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2015

      9. @henryfarrell likes science fiction anthologies Conquest & Amis edited. I found them eccentric in their conception of genre.

      10:10 PM - 4 Aug 2015 from Toronto, Ontario
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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2015
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          10. In any case: Robert Conquest, 1917-2015, a man of parts.

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        2. Dr Dr Dr Hero of Socialist Labor, JD, PhD, TL‏ @jamescappio 4 Aug 2015
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          @HeerJeet I’d like to hear more, given my vague idea tht Amis (& New Worlds) was v important in UK literati taking SF more seriously than US

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2015
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          @jamescappio Not sure that's true. Amis & Conquest were against New World. They championed early Ballard but no his prime work.

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