Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov papers
Language: rus
Number of pages: 10170
Subjects: Prisoners of war; World War, 1914-1918; Concentration camps; Communism; Cold War; Family; Russians; Military History; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Assassination; Communist parties; Archives; World War, 1939-1945; Psychological aspects; Armed Forces; Politics and government; Government policy; Jews; Persecutions; Counterrevolutionaries; Revolutionaries; Modern History; Heads of state; Biography; Perestroĭka; History; Missing in action; Arms race; Foreign relations; Power (Social sciences)
Description: Copies of correspondence, memoranda, articles, texts of speeches, interviews, personal testimonies, investigative and other reports, official protocols, directives, resolutions, schedules, logs, inventories of archival material, printed material, film scenarios, and photographs reproduced from records in thirteen Russian archives as well as the originals of some of Volkogonov's personal papers.  Reflects Volkogonov's study of significant events and individuals of modern Russian history beginning in the 1870s and 1880s with the births of those participating in events leading to the Russian Revolution and continuing through World War II, the Cold War, and perestroĭka into the mid-1990s.  Documents major internal historical events in the development of the Soviet Union and its empire as well as foreign relations and external events of the period.

Subjects include communism, psychology and effects of absolute power, and the communist party and the armed forces in modern Russia.  Other topics include the assassination of Nicholas II and members of the imperial family in 1918, post-Revolution emigration and activities of monarchists and social revolutionaries abroad, counterrevolutionary activities in the Soviet armed forces, development of concentration camps, foreign relations on the eve of World War II, the Doctor's Plot and persecution of Jews under Stalin, the arms race, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the work of a joint American and Soviet commission on prisoners of wars and missing in action, and modern Russian archival policies.

Individuals represented in the collection include Inessa F. Armand, Lavrentiĭ P. Berii︠a︡, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich Bukharin, John F. Kennedy, Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, and Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available for a portion of the collection, no. 21,595.

Microfilm produced from originals and photocopies of material in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1997.

Chiefly photocopies. Soviet Union and Russia.

Various archives in the former Soviet Union and Russia.

Gift, Volkogonov family, 1996-1998.

Military historian, member of the Russian parliament, and advisor to the president of the Russian Federation.  Born 1928; died 1995.

Collection material in Russian with several other European languages.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009065