Dmitri Volkogonov

Dmitri Volkogonov was a Colonel-General in the Soviet Army’s propaganda department until his views came to be regarded as ‘un-Soviet’. The biographer of Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky, he became Defence Adviser to President Yeltsin. He died in December 1995, shortly after completing The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev.