Robert Conquest — British Historian born on July 15, 1917, died on August 03, 2015

George Robert Acworth Conquest, CMG, OBE, FBA, FAAAS, FRSL, FBIS was a British-American historian and poet, notable for his influential works on Soviet history including The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s. He was a longtime research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He wrote more than a dozen books on the Soviet Union and he was a traditional conservative... (wikipedia)

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.