Dmitri Volkogonov

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

PoliticiansLived 1928 to 1995 · aged 67

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Languages14

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Also inDeutsch

Photos 1

Volkogonov's gravestone in Moscow

Awards 26

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

Connected to Dmitri 6

Hamazasp BabadzhanianAlso won Order of 9 September 1944

Jo Myong-rokAlso won Order of the National Flag

Valentin LebedevAlso won Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway"

Ri Yong-gilAlso won Order of the National Flag, 3rd class Yuri ChurbanovAlso won Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Mongolian People's Revolution"

Gennadi SarafanovAlso won Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"

About this person

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.