PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - Historian Robert Conquest, whose influential works on Soviet history shed light on the terror during the Stalin era, has died. He was 98.
Conquest's wife, Elizabeth Neece, said he died Monday in Stanford, California.
Conquest was the author of 21 books on Soviet history, politics, and international affairs. His "The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties" remains one of the most influential studies of Soviet history. It has been translated into more than 20 languages.
He spent 28 years at the Hoover Institution where he was a Senior Research Fellow.
A renowned historian of Soviet history, politics and foreign policy, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005.