David S. wrote: "The mainstream, the conventional wisdom, etc., treat Conquest as authoritative. He wrote on the subject for 50 years with his reputation intact at his death..."
Mainstream professional historians have rejected conclusions by Conquest as well as his method. They have avoided putting his professional reputation on the line because of his dominance of the field, which is entangled with the pressure on academics to keep anti-Soviet, anti-Stalin propaganda alive. But we go in circles; you were given citations and references at a link I already posted: http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/08/05/grover-furr-on-robert-conquest/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
