Dmitri Volkogonov Quotes

Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov 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 , 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.

Through his research in the restricted archives of the Soviet Central Committee, Volkogonov discovered facts that contradicted the official Soviet version of events, and the cult of personality that had been built up around Lenin and Stalin. Volkogonov published books that contributed to the strain of liberal Russian thought that emerged during Glasnost in the late 1980s and the post-Soviet era of the early 1990s. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. March 1928 – 6. December 1995
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Dmitri Volkogonov Quotes

“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
https://books.google.com/books?id=3dCc5Ovw4sUC&pg=PA409#v=onepage&f=false
9780684822938
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“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
1995-12-07
Dmitri Volkogonov, 67, Historian Who Debunked Heroes, Dies
New York Times
https://web.archive.org/web/20110120220404/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/07/world/dmitri-volkogonov-67-historian-who-debunked-heroes-dies.html
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