Writings, correspondence, and collected research materials, relating to the history of the Soviet Union. Finding aid to the microfilm reels available from the Library of Congress Manuscript Division: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009065 

Soviet historian and director of the Institute of Military History, Volkogonov had unfettered access to Soviet archives, on which he based his biographies of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin. Volkogonov was also a member of the advisory board of the Hoover Institution project in Moscow to microfilm portions of the Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State.

2 manuscript boxes (20 microfilm reels) (0.8 Linear Feet)

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