Dmitri Volkogonov

Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov was a Soviet and Russian historian and colonel general who was head of the Soviet military's psychological warfare department. After research in secret Soviet archives, he published a biography of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin, among others such as Leon Trotsky. Despite being a committed Stalinist and Marxist–Leninist 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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1928 – 1995
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Background

Born in
Chita
Educated at
V. I. Lenin Military-Political AcademyOrlov Tank School
Awards
🏆 Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"🏆 Order of the Red Banner of Labour

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  • 1928

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  • 1995

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