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Article: Obituary: General Dmitri Volkogonov
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 7, 1995
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Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov, soldier and military historian:
born Chita, Eastern Siberia 22 March 1928; married (two daughters);
died Moscow 6 December 1995.
Perestroika and its intellectual twin, glasnost, represented a
relatively short-lived moment when the idea of deep reform of the
system seemed inextricably bound up with an urgent need to dispel
the lies and myths of Soviet everyday life and history, a
recognition of the belief that it was impossible to move forward
before shedding the burdens of the past. Paradoxically, it was a
three-star general, a former head of the army's Political
Administration and latterly Director of the Institute of Military
History, who mounted the first ...