factually
Index/People/Robert Conquest

Robert Conquest

British historian and poet

Fact-Checks

2 results
Feb 4, 2026

What are the main critiques of Robert Conquest’s and R.J. Rummel’s high‑end Soviet death estimates?

’s and ’s high‑end have been influential but contested: critics argue they rest on selective sources, problematic demographic assumptions, and aggregations that conflate direct executions, excess deat...

Jan 6, 2026

What were the death toll estimates for Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union (1920s–1953)?

Scholarly estimates of deaths attributable to Joseph Stalin’s rule between the late 1920s and 1953 span a wide range—archival-based tallies cluster around a few million, while demographic and polemica...