Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1928, Mar. 22 | Born, Mangut, Chitinskii Region, Russia |
| 1937 | Father executed as an enemy of the people |
| 1946 | Entered Ul'ianovsk Military Tank School and became a propaganda officer |
| 1947 | Joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 1951 | Married Galina Alekseevna Kuptsova |
| 1952 | Daughter Tat'iana Dmitrievna born |
| 1959-1962 | Student, Lenin Military Academy, Moscow, Russia |
| 1960 | Daughter Ol'ga Dmitrievna born |
| 1966 | Defended doctoral (kandidatskaia) dissertation |
| 1966-1970 | Taught philosophy, Lenin Military Academy, Moscow, Russia |
| 1970 | Defended doctoral dissertation in philosophy Transferred to the General Political Directorate of the Soviet Army |
| 1973 | Appointed colonel-general of the Soviet army |
| 1985 | Proposal to liquidate political units of the Soviet army and replace them with information units resulted in removal from office |
| 1985-1991 | Director, Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense and the Russian Academy of Sciences |
| 1988 | Met Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin at the Nineteenth Party Conference in June |
| 1989 | Published Triumf i tragediia: politicheskii portret I.V. Stalina: v 2-kh knigakh. Moscow: Izd-vo Agenstva pechati Novosti. 2 vols. |
| 1990 | Elected to the Russian parliament Published 30-e gody: vzgliad iz segodnia. Moscow: Nauka Defended doctoral dissertation in history: "Stalinism: Essence, Genesis, and Evolution" |
| 1991 | Diagnosed with terminal cancer Appointed security and defense advisor to Yeltsin when the Soviet Union dissolved and Russia became independent; took an active role in the formation of a new Russian ministry of defense Appointed chair of the commission for creation of the Russian defense ministry and armed forces |
| 1992 | Published Trotskii: politicheskii portret: v dvukh knigakh. Moscow: Novosti. 2 vols. Appointed Russian co-chairman of the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on Prisoners of Wars and Missing in Action Elected corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
| 1993 | Elected to first post-Soviet parliament on reformer Yegor Gaidar's ticket Elected member of presidential council |
| 1994 | Published Lenin: politicheskii portret v dvukh knigakh. Moscow: Novosti. 2 vols. |
| 1995 | Published Sem' vozhdei: galereia liderov SSSR: v 2-kh knigakh. Moscow: Novosti. 2 vols. Awarded Gosudarstvennaia Premiia |
| 1995, Dec. 6 | Died, Krasnogorsk, Russia |