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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov papers, 1887-1995 (bulk 1917-1995)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Volkogonov, Dmitriĭ Antonovich.</namePart>
    <role>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">rus</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>10,170</extent>
    <extent>30 2</extent>
    <extent>20</extent>
    <extent>14</extent>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <abstract>Individuals represented in the collection include Inessa F. Armand, Lavrentiĭ P. Berii͡a, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich Bukharin, John F. Kennedy, Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, and Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available for a portion of the collection, no. 21,595.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals and photocopies of material in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1997.</note>
  <note>Chiefly photocopies. Soviet Union and Russia.</note>
  <note>Various archives in the former Soviet Union and Russia.</note>
  <note>Military historian, member of the Russian parliament, and advisor to the president of the Russian Federation.  Born 1928; died 1995.</note>
  <note>Collection material in Russian with several other European languages.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009065">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009065</note>
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      <namePart>Armand, I. F. (Inessa Fedorovna)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1920</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Berii͡a, L. P. (Lavrentiĭ Pavlovich)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1953</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bukharin, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1938</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1917-1963</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kerensky, Aleksandr Fyodorovich</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1881-1970</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1971</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1870-1924</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">II, Emperor of Russia</namePart>
      <namePart>Nicholas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1918</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Assassination</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">II, Emperor of Russia</namePart>
      <namePart>Nicholas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1918</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Family</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stalin, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1953</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Trotsky, Leon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1940</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1931-2007</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Romanov, House of</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Archives</topic>
    <topic>Government policy</topic>
    <geographic>Russia (Federation)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Archives</topic>
    <topic>Government policy</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Arms race</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cold War</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Communism</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Communist parties</topic>
    <geographic>Russia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Communist parties</topic>
    <geographic>Russia (Federation)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Communist parties</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Concentration camps</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Counterrevolutionaries</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>History, Modern</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Heads of state</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>Biography</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Jews</topic>
    <topic>Persecutions</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Missing in action</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Perestroĭka</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Power (Social sciences)</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Power (Social sciences)</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>Psychological aspects</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Prisoners of war</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Revolutionaries</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>Biography</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Russians</topic>
    <geographic>Foreign countries</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
    <geographic>Russia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1959-1990</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Russia</geographic>
    <topic>Armed Forces</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Russia</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <temporal>1801-1917</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Russia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1801-1917</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Russia</geographic>
    <topic>History, Military</topic>
    <temporal>1801-1917</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Russia</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1801-1917</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Russia (Federation)</geographic>
    <topic>Armed Forces</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Russia (Federation)</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Russia (Federation)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1991-</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Russia (Federation)</geographic>
    <topic>History, Military</topic>
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    <temporal>Revolution, 1917-1921</temporal>
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    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <temporal>1961-1963</temporal>
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    <occupation>Legislators</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Military historians</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Presidential advisors</occupation>
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