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Wolfgang Leonhard (16 April 1921 – 17 August 2014) was a German political author and historian of the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic and Communism.A German Communist whose family had fled Hitler's Germany and who was educated in the Soviet Union, after World War II Leonhard became one of the founders and leaders of the German Democratic Republic until he became disillusioned and fled in 1949, first defecting to Yugoslavia and then moving to West Germany in 1950 and later to ...
Wolfgang Leonhard war der Sohn der Publizistin Susanne Leonhard geb. Köhler. Ihr vormaliger Ehemann, der Dramatiker Rudolf Leonhard, erkannte die Vaterschaft an, obwohl Susanne Leonhard zur Zeit der Geburt mit Mieczysław Broński, dem sowjetischen Botschafter in Wien und engen Vertrauten Lenins, liiert und nach sowjetischem Recht verheiratet war.
That was a testament to the campus-celebrity status of its professor, Wolfgang Leonhard, who influenced two decades’ worth of Yale students with a narrative of Soviet history drawn both from his scholarship and from firsthand experience. Leonhard died on August 17 in Germany. He was 93. Leonhard was born Vladimir Leonhard in Vienna in 1921.
Aug 17, 2014 · The historian Wolfgang Leonhard, who broke with the founders of the former East Germany to become a Soviet critic and professor at Yale University, has died. The 93-year-old leaves behind a large ...
Aug 17, 2014 · Wolfgang Leonhard, Historiker, Publizist, Sowjetexperte. Als 24jähriger Politfunktionär kam er Ende April 1945 in den von der Roten Armee besetzten Teil Deutschlands: ein in der Sowjetunion ...
Wolfgang Leonhard (16 April 1921 – 17 August 2014) was a German political author, historian, and expert. He wrote many books on Communism and how he was against it. He was the last living member of the Ulbricht Group, an anti-communism group. Leonhard was born in Vienna, Austria to German parents. Leonhard died at a hospital in Daun, Germany ...
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Aug 17, 2014 · Wolfgang Leonhard. German political author, publicist, and historian. A former communist who fled to the Soviet Union in 1935, he became part of the "National Committee for the liberation of Germany". In 1945, he came back to East Germany as part of the "Ulbricht group", a special command of politicians and instructors.
