Anton Antonov-Ovseenko
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Anton Vladimirovich Antonov-Ovseyenko (born February 23, 1920) is a Russian historian and writer.
He is the son of a Bolshevik military leader Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
.
He was born on 23 February 1920. In 1935, he joined the historical faculty of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. In 1938, he was expelled from Komsomol
and the institute wherein, however, he was reinstated in the same year.
He was arrested in 1940 and spent 13 years in labor camp
s.
Although best known for his biography of Lavrentiy Beria
, he has written several books.
Antonov-Ovseyenko runs a state museum on the Gulag
, for which the Moscow administration provided a building in August 2001.
He is the son of a Bolshevik military leader Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
Vladimir Alexandrovich Antonov-Ovseyenko , real surname Ovseyenko, party aliases the 'Bayonet' and 'Nikita' , a literary pseudonym A. Gal , was a prominent Soviet Bolshevik leader and diplomat. He was born in Chernigov into an officer's family.In 1903, Antonov-Ovseyenko joined the Menshevik party...
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He was born on 23 February 1920. In 1935, he joined the historical faculty of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. In 1938, he was expelled from Komsomol
Komsomol
The Communist Union of Youth , usually known as Komsomol , was the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Komsomol in its earliest form was established in urban centers in 1918. During the early years, it was a Russian organization, known as the Russian Communist Union of...
and the institute wherein, however, he was reinstated in the same year.
He was arrested in 1940 and spent 13 years in labor camp
Labor camp
A labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons...
s.
Although best known for his biography of Lavrentiy Beria
Lavrentiy Beria
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was a Georgian Soviet politician and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years ....
, he has written several books.
Antonov-Ovseyenko runs a state museum on the Gulag
Gulag
The Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...
, for which the Moscow administration provided a building in August 2001.
His books
- The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny, Harper & Row, 1981, ISBN 0-060-10148-2
- Theater of Joseph StalinJoseph StalinJoseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
Moscow. "Grėgori-Pėĭdzh", 1995. ISBN 5-900-49315-6 - Enemy of the peopleEnemy of the peopleThe term enemy of the people is a fluid designation of political or class opponents of the group using the term. The term implies that the "enemies" in question are acting against society as a whole. It is similar to the notion of "enemy of the state". The term originated in Roman times as ,...
, Moscow. Intellekt, 1996. Russian text online BeriaLavrentiy BeriaLavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was a Georgian Soviet politician and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years ....
Moscow, ACT, 1999, ISBN 5-237-03178-1 Russian text online Naprasnyi podvig? (Vain feat?) Moscow: ACT, 2003. ISBN 5-17-017525-6