Volkogonov, Dmitriĭ Antonovich

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Dates:
Birth 1928-03-22
Death 1995-12-06
Russians,
Russian,

Biographical notes:

Soviet historian.

From the description of Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov papers, 1917-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123379692

Military historian, member of the Russian parliament, and advisor to the president of the Russian Federation. Born 1928; died 1995.

From the description of Papers of Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov, 1763-1995 (bulk 1917-1995). (University of Oxford). WorldCat record id: 526091435

Biographical Note

1928, Mar. 22 Born, Mangut, Chitinskii Region, Russia 1937 Father executed as an enemy of the people 1946 Entered Ul'ianovsk Military Tank School and became a propaganda officer 1947 Joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1951 Married Galina Alekseevna Kuptsova 1952 Daughter Tat'iana Dmitrievna born 1959 1962 Student, Lenin Military Academy, Moscow, Russia 1960 Daughter Ol'ga Dmitrievna born 1966 Defended doctoral (kandidatskaia) dissertation 1966 1970 Taught philosophy, Lenin Military Academy, Moscow, Russia 1970 Defended doctoral dissertation in philosophy Transferred to the General Political Directorate of the Soviet Army 1973 Appointed colonel-general of the Soviet army 1985 Proposal to liquidate political units of the Soviet army and replace them with information units resulted in removal from office 1985 1991 Director, Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense and the Russian Academy of Sciences 1988 Met Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin at the Nineteenth Party Conference in June 1989 Published Triumf i tragediia: politicheskii portret I.V. Stalina: v 2-kh knigakh. Moscow: Izd-vo Agenstva pechati Novosti. 2 vols. 1990 Elected to the Russian parliament Published 30-e gody: vzgliad iz segodnia. Moscow: Nauka Defended doctoral dissertation in history: "Stalinism: Essence, Genesis, and Evolution" 1991 Diagnosed with terminal cancer Appointed security and defense advisor to Yeltsin when the Soviet Union dissolved and Russia became independent; took an active role in the formation of a new Russian ministry of defense Appointed chair of the commission for creation of the Russian defense ministry and armed forces 1992 Published Trotskii: politicheskii portret: v dvukh knigakh. Moscow: Novosti. 2 vols. Appointed Russian co-chairman of the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on Prisoners of Wars and Missing in Action Elected corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1993 Elected to first post-Soviet parliament on reformer Yegor Gaidar's ticket Elected member of presidential council 1994 Published Lenin: politicheskii portret v dvukh knigakh. Moscow: Novosti. 2 vols. 1995 Published Sem' vozhdei: galereia liderov SSSR: v 2-kh knigakh. Moscow: Novosti. 2 vols. Awarded Gosudarstvennaia Premiia 1995, Dec. 6 Died, Krasnogorsk, Russia

From the guide to the Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov Papers, 1887-1995, (bulk 1917-1995), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

Biographical/Historical Note

Soviet historian.

From the guide to the Dmitrii Antonovich Volkogonov papers, 1917-1995, (Hoover Institution Archives)

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  • Arms race
  • Arms race
  • Cold War
  • Communism
  • Communism
  • Communist parties
  • Communist parties
  • Communist parties
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  • Concentration camps
  • Concentration camps
  • Counterrevolutionaries
  • Counterrevolutionaries
  • Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
  • Heads of state
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  • History, Modern
  • Jews
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  • Missing in action
  • Perestroĭka
  • Perestroika
  • Power (Social sciences)
  • Power (Social sciences)
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  • Prisoners of war
  • Revolutionaries
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  • Russians
  • Russians
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • World War, 1914-1918 Russia
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945

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  • Legislators
  • Military historians
  • Presidential advisors

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  • United States (as recorded)
  • Soviet Union (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
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  • Russia (as recorded)
  • Russia (as recorded)
  • Soviet Union (as recorded)
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  • Soviet Union History. (as recorded)
  • Cuba (as recorded)
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