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Anton Vladimirovich Antonov-Ovseenko (; 23 February 1920 – 9 July 2013) was a Russian historian and writer. (biography on the Sakharov Center website) Born on 23 February 1920, he was the son of the Bolshevik military leader

Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko Vladimir Alexandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko (; ; 9 March 1883 – 10 February 1938), real surname Ovseenko, party aliases 'Bayonet' () and 'Nikita' (), literary pseudonym A. Galsky (), was a prominent Bolshevik leader, Soviet statesman, mili ...

who commanded the assault on the

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. In 1923 he signed the declaration of 46. In 1935, he joined the historical faculty of the

Moscow State Pedagogical Institute Moscow State Pedagogical University or Moscow State University of Education is an educational and scientific institution in Moscow, Russia, with eighteen faculties and seven branches operational in other Russian cities. The institution had under ...

. In 1938, he was expelled from

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and the institute wherein, however, he was reinstated in the same year. He was arrested in 1940 and spent 13 years in

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s. Antonov-Ovseenko is best known for his biography of

Lavrentiy Beria Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria ka, ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია} ''Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria'' ( – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph ...

and he also wrote several books. Antonov-Ovseenko operated a state museum on the

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, for which the Moscow administration provided a building in August 2001. When he died in 2013, he was still working two full days a week to continue documenting what he called "the evils of the Soviet era" and to help with plans for a new, larger space.

Bibliography

*''The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny'', Harper & Row, 1981, (reprinted 1983) *''Theater of

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'' Moscow. "Grėgori-Pėĭdzh", 1995. *''

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'', Moscow. Intellekt, 1996
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Beria Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria ka, ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია} ''Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria'' ( – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph ...

'' Moscow, ACT, 1999,
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of the 2007 edition online) *''Naprasnyi podvig?'' (''Vain feat?'') Moscow: ACT, 2003.

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