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Dmitri Volkogonov

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Russian military officer (colonel-general) and historian (1928-1995)

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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.

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1995State Prize of the Russian Federation
1983Lenin Komsomol Prize
Order of the Red Star
Order of the Badge of Honour
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class
Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"
Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"
Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway"
Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "For Impeccable Service", 3rd class
Medal "For Impeccable Service", 2nd class
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "For Impeccable Service", 1st class
Order of Military Merit
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Mongolian People's Revolution"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Mongolian People's Army"
Order of the National Flag
Order of 9 September 1944
Order of the National Flag, 3rd class

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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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Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1928 to 1995 · aged 67
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