Question
This author’s first law of politics, which states that “Generally speaking, everyone is reactionary on subjects he knows about,” was coined after a discussion with Kingsley Amis. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this historian, whose biographical works such as The Great Terror are often criticized for their inflated casualty figures.
ANSWER: Robert Conquest
[10e] Conquest’s 1986 book The Harvest of Sorrow proposed that the Holodomor, a massive famine in this Soviet republic, constituted a genocide. This republic was the most populous non-Russia constituent of the Soviet Union.
ANSWER: Soviet Ukraine [or the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]
[10m] Conquest’s final biography of Stalin covers his role in this event, which directly led to the first Great Purge. In the aftermath of this event, gunman Leonid Nikolaev and 13 co-conspirators were executed.
ANSWER: the assassination of Sergei Kirov [accept synonyms such as the killing or murder of Sergei Kirov]
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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| Rutgers Diaspora | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |