he maintained a correspondence with the Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudayev. He also urged peace negotiations on Russian President Boris Yeltsin. He died in Munich, Germany, shortly after the end of the war, in 1997. Bibliography Books Articles See also List of Eastern Bloc defectors Notes External links "Stalin and the Soviet Communist Party" online text Interview with Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov Biographical Entry 20th-century births 1997 deaths People from Chechnya Chechen anti-communists Historians of Chechnya Historians of communism Chechen people Institute of Red Professors alumni North Caucasian independence activists Stalinism-era scholars and writers Soviet defectors to the United States Writers about the Soviet Union Russian memoirists 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Soviet historians American people of Chechen descent American political writers 20th-century memoirists 20th-century American male writers