Dmitry Antonovich Volkogonov (Russian: Дми́трий Анто́нович Волкого́нов; romanisation ru ⇒ en: Dmitry Antonovich Volkogonov) (22 March 1928 – 6 December 1995) was a Soviet/Russian historian and colonel general who was head of the Soviet military's psychological warfare department. After research in secret Soviet archives (both before and after the dissolution of the union), he published biographies of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin, among others. Despite being a committed Stalinist and Marxist–Leninist ideologue for most of his career, Volkogonov came to repudiate communism and the Soviet system within the last decade of his life before his death from cancer in 1995.
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22 March 1928 Chita, Russia
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Died |
6 December 1995 (aged 67) Moscow, Russia
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Zodiac | Aries |
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