Dmitri Volkogonov
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Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov (Russian: Дми́трий Анто́нович Волкого́нов) (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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- However doomed a man may be, he still has the great luxury of freedom of thought that can carry him soaring over the past and the future, the single attribute that can never be taken away by tyrant or circumstance.
- Volkogonov, Dmitri (1996), Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary, Free Press, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 9780684822938.
- The only thing I can be proud of—the greatest merit of my life—is that I was able to fundamentally alter my views."
- Stanley, Alessandra (7 December 1995), "Dmitri Volkogonov, 67, Historian Who Debunked Heroes, Dies", New York Times.
