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.
Meskipun memegang ideologi Stalinis dan Marxis-Leninis pada sebagian besar masa kariernya, Volkogonov menolak komunisme dan sistem Soviet pada dekade terakhir hidupnya sebelum kematiannya karena kanker pada 1995.