Anton Wladimirowitsch Antonov-Ovsejenko
Anton Wladimirowitsch Antonow-Ovsejenko ( Russian Анто́н Влади́мирович Анто́нов-Овсе́енко ; * February 23, 1920 in Moscow ; † July 9, 2013 ibid) was a Russian historian and dissident.
After the shooting of his father Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Antonov-Ovsejenko in the course of the Stalin purges and the suicide of his mother, Anton Vladimirovich was also a victim of repression. He spent several years in prison and was exiled to Vorkuta in 1948 for "anti-Soviet propaganda" . After his rehabilitation in 1957, he wrote a biography of Stalin, among other things. In 2001 he founded the Moscow Gulag Museum .
The philologist Anton Antonowitsch Antonow-Ovsejenko (* 1962) is his son.
German-language publications
- Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny . Piper, 1983. ISBN 3-492-02760-1 .
- Meetings - Beria . In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe. 51, no. 2, (2003): 297
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Antonov-Ovsejenko, Anton Wladimirowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Анто́нов-Овсе́енко, Анто́н Влади́мирович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian historian and dissident |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 2013 |
| Place of death | Moscow |