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Conquest's and was
Conquest's thesis of an SS conspiracy to frame Tukhachevsky was based upon the memoirs of Walter Schellenberg and Edvard Beneš.
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.

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

Conquest's and during
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.

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

title and was
He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.
The earlier of them was an unofficial enterprise, sponsored by Life magazine, under the title of The National Purpose.
In order to further refine the management of passenger vehicles, on July 1, 1958, the actual title to every vehicle was transferred, by Executive Order, to the Division of Methods, Research and Office Services.
In Berlin he published his views of the chemical laws of nature in German and this was issued in French translation ( Paris, 1813 ) under the title Recherches Sur l'identite Des Forces chimiques et electriques, a work held in very high esteem by the new generation of research chemists.
In substance, said the Court, there was no transfer of equitable title.
Again it was used as the title for the hoss wrangler, and when the order was given to go out and `` rustle the hosses '', it meant for 'im to go out and herd 'em in.
Implementation of Georgia's automobile title law was also recommended by the outgoing jury.
Van Brocklin, the quarterback who led the Eagles to the title, was signed by the Vikings last Wednesday.
For example, there was sheet music with the word `` jazz '' in the title, to illustrate how a word of uncertain origin took hold.
She asked him and, laughing, she added, `` I was nervous about buying a book with a title like that, but I knew you'd like it ''.
Lincoln later noted that this move was " partly on account of slavery " but mainly due to land title difficulties.
The title " teacher " was first given to Aristotle by Muslim scholars, and was later used by Western philosophers ( as in the famous poem of Dante ) who were influenced by the tradition of Islamic philosophy.
Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu Enlil, meaning " the son of Enlil ", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.
Aplu, meaning the son of, was a title given to the god Nergal, who was linked to the Babylonian god of the sun Shamash.
A port was in development for the 5200 and advertised as a launch title but never officially released, although an unofficial release was produced by AtariAge.
The Atari 7800 version was a launch title and featured co-operative play, it was the built in game on the European Atari 7800 release.
( This package was released for the PC a year earlier under the title Atari: 80 Classic Games in One.
The title was an implicit admission that such chapters as Chapter 7, " The Piper at the Gates of Dawn ", could not survive translation to the theatre.

title and turn
The Duke's eldest son's eldest son in turn can use the courtesy title Earl of Sunderland.
According to a Greg Johnson biographical note on Booker, the song title " Gonzo " comes from a character in a movie called The Pusher, which in turn may have been inspired by a 1956 Evan Hunter novel of the same title.
It was afterward rendered into Latin by Jacob Christmann ( Frankfort, 1590 ) under the title of Elementa Astronomica, which, in its turn, may have given rise to the Hebrew title of the treatise Yesodot ha-Teḳunah, which is undoubtedly recent.
That poem in turn appears to have been the principal source for the famous Anglo-Saxon poem to which the modern title The Phoenix is given.
At their first concert, They Might Be Giants performed under the name El Grupo De Rock and Roll, because the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and all of the audience members spoke Spanish Soon discarding this title, the band assumed the name of a 1971 film They Might Be Giants ( starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward ), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants.
If a dispute arises as to the accuracy or completeness of the codification of an unenacted title, the courts will turn to the language in the United States Statutes at Large.
At the turn of the 1920s and 1930s he started to write short stories, which were later printed under the title Memoirs Of A Time Of Immaturity.
While the title was not official, he is considered to be the first Senate Majority leader ( and in turn, the first Senate Democratic Leader ), while serving concurrently as Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus.
To " turn the wheel of dharma " ( Zhuan Falun ) means to preach the Buddhist doctrine, and is the title of Falun Gong's main text.
( Bertrand, in turn, took his title from the eponymous anarchist army during the Spanish Civil War ).
During " Archie's Silver Age ( late 1950s through the 1960s )," the Shield led other characters in the Joe Simon / Jack Kirby title The Double Life of Private Strong, while Simon & Kirby soon added another title — The Adventures of the Fly — which in turn was later joined by The Jaguar.
His four elder brothers, Charles ( 1386 ), Charles ( 1392 – 1401 ), Louis ( 1397 – 1415 ) and John ( 1398 – 1417 ) had each held the title of Dauphin of France, heir to the French throne, in turn ; each had died childless, leaving Charles with a rich inheritance of titles.
Several songs, films and other television programs, including The Simpsons, reference or parody characters and events from the show, including the memorable "... can turn the world on with her smile " line from the title song.
The Trần Dynasty also adopted a unique way to train new kings: when a crown prince reached the age of 18, his predecessor would abdicate and turn the throne over to him, yet holding a title of August Higher Emperor ( Thái Thượng Hoàng ), acting as a mentor to the new Emperor.
: The cartoon on the cover that provides the book's title would turn out to be one of his most famous and often-cited cartoons.
Czyz then lost a decision to Dennis Andries in May 1988, followed by a couple of victories, in turn followed by two cracks at the world title in 1989.
The title of the show was a play on the " love-ins " or " be-ins " of the 1960s hippie culture, terms that were, in turn, derived from " sit-ins ", common in protests associated with civil rights and anti-war demonstrations of the time.
The best-selling book, in turn, spawned several filmed versions of the story: director Richard Brooks ' theatrical feature film In Cold Blood in 1967 starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson and John Forsythe, and a two-part made-for-television movie of the same title starring Eric Roberts, Anthony Edwards and Sam Neill that aired on network TV in 1996.
Two more wins and another no contest followed, and, after Carazo lost in his title try against Roman by decision, it was Laciar's turn to face the Mexican again.
Life with Father is the title of a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by Clarence Day, Jr., which was adapted in 1939 into a long-running Broadway play by Lindsay and Crouse, which was, in turn, made into a 1947 movie and a television series.
That song, in turn, took its title from Lord Buckley's comic monologue, " The Nazz ", which is a re-telling of the tale of Jesus of Nazareth.

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