Conquest, Robert

Conquest, Robert. 1986. The Harvest of Sorrow Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. New York Oxford University Press. 

Constructivist sociologists of science, more than historians, have entered where Foucault declined to tread, dealing not only with the "big science" of modem times but with the classical period of Robert Boyle and the early Royal Society. Bruno Latour, Steven Shapin, and Simon Schaffer have emphasized social and discursive strategies of coercion and persuasion, marshaled by scientific protagonists who mimic codes of behavior ordinarily associated with the battlefield or the salon.5 This is a sociology of confrontation and conquest that emphasizes the contingent personal and cultural forms that scientific discourse can assume. 

Quoted in Robert Conquest, "The Somber Monster, New York Review of Books, June 8, 1995, p. 8. We also know that Lenin was an admirer of another utopian work, Tommaso Campanella s City of the Sun, which describes a religious utopia whose design includes strong pedagogical and didactic features for shaping the minds and souls of its citizens. 

The volumes for 1895 will probably be The Voyage OF Pedro Sarmiento to the Strait of Magellan, 1579-80, translated and edited by the President and Azurara s Chronicle of the Conquest of Guinea, translated and edited by Mr. C. R. Beazley and Mr. E. Prestage. These two volumes will, it is hoped, be followed by Dr. Robert Brown s edition of Leo Africanus, which is in a very forward state. 

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