What factual assertions by Conquest have been factually disproved? David Shemano
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charlie Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 12:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pen-l] The Teen Who Exposed a Professor's Myth "A well-credentialed academic historian makes ridiculous and poorly researched claims which became widely accepted by professional historians." This applies to so-called historian Robert Conquest, too, who received an adulatory obituary in the New York Times yesterday (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/arts/international/robert-conquest-historian-who-documented-soviet-horrors-dies-at-98.html). He is the source of major falsehoods about the Soviet Union during the Stalin years. Perched at the Hoover Institution, Conquest's method of research was: if we do not have evidence sufficient to draw our desired conclusion, we may take an unverified statement or anecdote as well-founded and interpret it so as to get to our (anti-communist) conclusion. After Conquest became famous, a few historians like J. Arch Getty disproved his major contentions, but they did not dare attack him directly. The NY Times ignores them. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l ____________________________________________________ Information contained in this e-mail transmission may be privileged, confidential and covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. Sections 2510-2521. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, distribute, or reproduce this transmission. If you have received this e-mail transmission in error, please notify us immediately of the error by return email and please delete the message from your system. Pursuant to requirements related to practice before the U. S. Internal Revenue Service, any tax advice contained in this communication (including any attachments) is not intended to be used, and cannot be used, for purposes of (i) avoiding penalties imposed under the U. S. Internal Revenue Code or (ii) promoting, marketing or recommending to another person any tax-related matter. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Robins Kaplan LLP http://www.robinskaplan.com ____________________________________________________
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