Quote of the day
You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
Dmitri Volkogonov

Born: March 22, 1928
Died: December 6, 1995 (aged 67)
Bio: Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov was a Russian historian and colonel general who was head of the Soviet military's psychological warfare department. After research in secret Soviet archives, he published biographies of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin, among others.
Known for:
- Lenin (1994)
- Stalin (1988)
- Trotsky : the eternal revolutionary (1992)
- Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy