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July 13, 2013 Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, a Soviet historian and dissident who survived the gulag under Stalin and in later decades brought new attention to the scope of the regime’s barbarism,...

By Michael Schwirtz July 10, 2013 “It is the duty of every honest person to write the truth about Stalin,” Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, a Soviet historian and dissident, wrote in the preface of his...

Having lost both his mother and father in the 1930s, in the tyrant’s prisons of torture and execution, Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko was arrested three times (in 1940, 1941 and 1948) and spent nearly ...

The Washington Post Column / By Anne Applebaum / July 13, 2013. Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, a Soviet historian and dissident who survived the gulag under Stalin and in later decades brought new attention to the scope of the regime’s barbarism, died July 9 in Moscow. He was 93.

Anton Antonov-Ovseenko is the son of a prominent member of the Bolshevik 'Old-Guard', who was liquidated in 1938. At that time Anton was an 18 year old history student in Moscow. He was himself arrested twice and he spent the years 1941-1953 in prisons and forced labour camps. So he acquired an intimate knowledge of the

Anton Vladimirovich Antonov-Ovseyenko (Russian: Анто́н Влади́мирович Анто́нов-Овсе́енко) (23 February 1920 – 9 July 2013) was a Russian historian and writer. Born on 23 February 1920, he was the son of a Bolshevik military leader Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko. In 1935, he joined the historical faculty of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. In 1938, he was ...