Sergo Mikoyan biography

The domestic policy is currently processing documents. All of them will be published in the corresponding sections of the Mikoyan archive in the near future. The outstanding historian Sergo Mikoyan passed away. He died at 81 years of life because of blood cancer. Sergo Mikoyan is the son of the famous Soviet state and party leader Anastas Mikoyan. Doctor of Historical Sciences, leading researcher at the Institute of World Economics, for a long time headed the Latin America magazine, professor at the University of Georgetown in Washington.

Mikoyan is the author of dozens of scientific works and publications. It is worth noting that it was Sergo Mikoyan who insisted on withdrawing the stamp “secretly” from many of the most important documents of the Cold War. Then his legendary book “Anatomy of the Caribbean crisis” was published. The last work of Sergo Mikoyan is dedicated to the international missions of his father.

It will be published in the coming months. Shortly before his death, Sergo Mikoyan handed over to the national security archive part of his unique personal archive. Currently, documents are processed. Member of the CPSU from the year. Researcher at the Institute of World Economics and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The author of a dozen works, a recognized specialist in Latin America.

He was the scientific editor of the magazine "World Economics and International Relations" -, in the years, headed the monthly Latin America magazine. From a year he lived in the United States, collaborated with a number of American universities, worked in American scientific archives. I use my stay in America for scientific work. I became Scholar in Residence at the American University, I collaborate with the National Security Archive at the University of George Washington.

It turned out that working in the American archives is a thousand times easier than in Moscow. And libraries only in the area of ​​Bolshoi Washington give what the libraries in Moscow did not dream of. In Moscow, relatively recently, I have achieved admission to special security for a year and a half, a closed archive. Finally, with great difficulty, received admission, and what do you think?

I had to sit in the room where there are three tables, and a woman sits nearby and makes sure that everyone would only make extracts in a special notebook. It is stitched, the pages are numbered, at the end of the day she should be handed over to that very woman. Then we need to seek permission to publish a book with passages from special -guard records. In the meantime, I work, I have to remember everything, the work goes slowly.

To write a book that I wrote in the States in one year, in Moscow I would need about seven years, if not more. For my age, this means never. Therefore, I told the special guard "Thank you very much" and left. The national security archive that I mentioned, on the basis of the law on the freedom of information adopted by the Congress, requires from the CIA, the Ministry of Defense, the FBI and even from the White House, it seems 30 years older.

Therefore, in America, excellent open materials. Including the state archive and the library of Congress. By the way, there is an archive of Volkogonov, exported from Russia. In Russia, he is secret, and in America - open