Conquest's title was in turn inspired by the period of terror ( French: la Terreur ) during the French Revolution.

The most important aspect of Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was that it widened the understanding of the purges beyond the previous narrow focus on the " Moscow Trials " of disgraced Communist Party leaders such as Nikolai Bukharin and Grigory Zinoviev.

Hostility to Conquest's account of the purges was heightened by various factors.

The second factor ( 1918 ) was Conquest's sharp criticism of Western intellectuals for what he saw as their blindness towards the realities of the Soviet Union, both in the 1930s and, in some cases, even in the 1960s.

Furthermore, Conquest's comment about the poet John Cornford, who had been killed in the Spanish Civil War and was a hero of the British intellectual Left, that " not even high intelligence and a sensitive spirit are of any help once the facts of a situation are deduced from a political theory, rather than vice versa ," was widely quoted, and sparked its own controversy.

Rummel has responded that the 20 million estimate is based on a figure from Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror, and that Conquest's qualifier " almost certainly too low " is usually forgotten.

Conquest's calculations excluded camp deaths before 1936 and after 1950, executions from 1939 – 1953, the vast deportation of the people of captive nations into the camps and their deaths 1939 – 1953, the massive deportation within the Soviet Union of minorities 1941 – 1944 and their deaths, and those the Soviet Red Army and secret police executed throughout Eastern Europe after their conquest during 1944 – 1945.

In the Western world, Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror popularized that phrase.

The Movement poets as a group came to public notice in Robert Conquest's 1955 anthology New Lines.

Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow later quoted him directly.

In some senses the anthology can be seen as a reaction to Robert Conquest's New Lines anthology, which appeared a decade before.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the research that resulted from the opening up of the Soviet archives, many of Conquest's claims have been contested.

At issue are Conquest's estimates of the death toll, which are now contested by some historians as being much too high.

* Robert Conquest's Harvest of Sorrow, Soviet Collectivization and the Terror Famine.

Taylor criticised Hoggan's thesis that Germany was the innocent victim of an Anglo-Polish conspiracy in 1939 as nonsense but many critics confused Taylor's thesis with Hoggan's.

In 1963, historian Jacob Cooke, an editor of Hamilton's papers, regarded this charge as " preposterous ", calling it a " conspiracy thesis " that overstated Hamilton's control of the federal government.

Chase articulated the " slave power conspiracy " thesis well before Lincoln, devoting his energies to the destruction of what he considered the Slave Powerthe conspiracy of Southern slave owners to seize control of the federal government and block the progress of liberty.

Aaronovitch concludes that those of study conspiracy theories will recognize Eurabia to be a theory that combines the " Sad Dupes thesis to the Enemy Within idea ".

Furthermore, Carr notes that " tripped of its Islamic content, the broad contours of Ye ’ or ’ s preposterous thesis Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis recall the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of the first half of the twentieth century and contemporary notions of the ‘ Zionist Occupation Government ’ prevalent in far-right circles in the US ".

He elaborates: " Stripped of its Islamic content, the broad contours of Ye ’ or ’ s preposterous thesis Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis recall the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of the first half of the twentieth century and contemporary notions of the ‘ Zionist Occupation Government ’ prevalent in far-right circles in the US ".

Specifically, the op-ed referred to GlobalResearch. ca as " anti-U. S. and anti-globalization " and criticized Chussodovsky's thesis and views — namely: that the U. S. had knowledge of the 911 attacks before they happened ; that Washington had weapons that could influence climate change ; and lastly, that the large banking institutions are the cause of the collapse of smaller economies — as " wild-eyed conspiracy theories ".

The book's thesis has also featured prominently in the conspiracy theories of racist groups such as The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord and other conspiracy theorists.

Important as was Mr. O'Donnell's essay, his thesis is so restricting as to deny Faulkner the stature which he obviously has.

Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.

An equally tenable thesis is that the dearth of new thought was created by the Senate's own penchant for crucifying anyone whose ideas seem unorthodox to the next generation.

His thesis advisor in Cambridge was David Wheeler.

His master's thesis was entitled Flank Formation Football -- Stress :: Defense.

Although details remain disputed, the vast majority of recent studies agree with Martin Noth's thesis, published in 1943, that the book of Samuel was composed as part of the Deuteronomistic history, the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings.

This was followed independently by Louis Bachelier in 1900 in his PhD thesis " The theory of speculation ", in which he presented a stochastic analysis of the stock and option markets.

Later he returned to Egypt to complete his PhD in Islamic philosophy and his thesis was titled " The Philosophy and Teachings of Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Jami.

The thesis that the Third Reich went to war on the basis of " blitzkrieg economics " was criticized by Richard Overy in the 1980s and Historian George Raudzens highlighted the many, somewhat conflicting, senses in which historians have used the word.

NSC-68's principal thesis was that the Soviet Union intended to become the single dominant world power.

In 1934, then enrolled as a graduate student at King's College London, he wrote his Ph. D. thesis on Trade and War in the Eastern Seas, 1803-1810, which was awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History for 1935.

While most pre-Columbian historians believe that there was ritual cannibalism related to human sacrifices, they do not support Harris's thesis that human flesh was ever a significant portion of the Aztec diet.

The completeness of quantum mechanics ( thesis 1 ) was attacked by the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen thought experiment which was intended to show that quantum physics could not be a complete theory.

His thesis was published as The Grammar of the Lamba language.

for his doctoral thesis The Phonetics of the Zulu Language and was promoted to Senior Lecturer.

Thus Post in his 1936 was also discounting Kurt Gödel's suggestion to Church in 1934 – 5 that the thesis might be expressed as an axiom or set of axioms.

Plato was the starkest proponent of the realist thesis of universal concepts.

The traditional staples thesis, advocated by scholars such as S. A. Saunders, looks at the resource endowments of the Maritimes and argues that it was the decline of the traditional industries of shipbuilding and fishing that led to Maritime poverty, since these processes were rooted in geography, and thus all but inevitable.

Moreover, according to this thesis, a major motivational factor for Gorbachev was his realization that the Soviet Union could not compete economically with the USA However, if economic premises are taken into account, it is not clear why the Soviet leaders did not adopt the Chinese option — economic liberalization with preservation of political system.

Dialectical materialism is essentially characterized by the thesis that history is the product of class struggles and follows the general Hegelian principle of philosophy of history, that is the development of the thesis into its antithesis which is sublated by the Aufhebung (" synthesis "), although this three-part process was not explicitly characterized in terms of a thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in Hegel's writings.

Sapir's 1905 Master's thesis was an analysis of Johann Gottfried Herder's Treatise on the Origin of Language, and included examples from Inuit and Native American languages, not at all familiar to a Germanicist.