Anton Antonov-Ovseenko

Anton Vladimirovich Antonov-Ovseyenko (Russian: Антон Владимирович Антонов-Овсеенко) (born 1920) is a Russian historian and writer.

He is the son of a Bolshevik military leader Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko. He was arrested in 1940 and spent 13 years in labor camps.

Although best known for his biography of Lavrentiy Beria, he has written several books.

In 2004, Antonov-Ovseyenko founded and opened the State Museum of the History of the Gulag in central Moscow.

His books

• The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny, Harper & Row, 1981, ISBN 0-060-10148-2
• Theater of Joseph Stalin Moscow. "Grėgori-Pėĭdzh", 1995. ISBN 5-900-49315-6
• Enemy of the people, Moscow. Intellekt, 1996. Russian text online
• Beria (Russian) Moscow, ACT, 1999, ISBN 5-237-03178-1 Russian text online