Editing Robert Conquest (section)

==Later life==
[[File:Aretha Franklin honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.jpg|thumb|right|Conquest (left) receiving the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] with [[Aretha Franklin]] (middle) and [[Alan Greenspan]] (right) at the [[White House]], November 2005]]

In 1981 Conquest moved to California to take up a post as Senior Research Fellow and Scholar-Curator of the Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States Collection at Stanford University's [[Hoover Institution]], where he remained a Fellow.<ref name=Telegraphobit/> In 1985 he signed a petition in support of the anti-Communist [[Contras]] ([[Nicaragua]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/document/bhlnicaragua|title=Quand Bernard-Henri Lévy pétitionnait contre le régime légal du Nicaragua|date=1 October 2009|publisher=}}</ref> He was a fellow of the [[Columbia University]]'s Russian Institute, and of the [[Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars]]; a distinguished visiting scholar at [[The Heritage Foundation]]; a research associate of [[Harvard University]]'s Ukrainian Research Institute.<ref name="NYTobit"/> In 1990 he presented ''Red Empire'', a seven-part mini-series on the Soviet Union produced by [[Yorkshire Television]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol1no1/redempire.html| title = Red Empire| author = McCannon, John| date = Fall 1998| accessdate = 23 June 2014| publisher = The Journal for Multi Media History}}</ref>

Conquest died in 2015 in [[Stanford, California]], at the age of 98, of respiratory failure as a result of [[Parkinson's disease]].<ref name="NYTobit">{{cite news |last=Grimes |first=William |author-link=William Grimes (journalist) |date=4 August 2015 |title=Robert Conquest, Historian Who Documented Soviet Horrors, Dies at 98 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/arts/international/robert-conquest-historian-who-documented-soviet-horrors-dies-at-98.html |newspaper=The New York Times |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160516144031/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/arts/international/robert-conquest-historian-who-documented-soviet-horrors-dies-at-98.html?_r=0 |archive-date=16 May 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="WSJ 4">{{cite news |last1=Cronin |first1=Brenda |last2=Cullison |first2=Alan |date=4 August 2015 |title=Robert Conquest, Seminal Historian of Soviet Misrule, Dies at 98 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/robert-conquest-seminal-historian-of-soviet-misrule-dies-at-98-1438714647 |newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |accessdate=4 August 2015}}</ref>