The Soviet Intellectual in Vlasov’s Movement: the Cases of Zykov, Samygin, and Glinka

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  • Prof. Boris V. Sokolov

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https://doi.org/10.12775/STW.2018.02.05

Abstract

The paper examines the fates of three Soviet collaborationists: Mileti Zykov, one of the ideologists of General Andrei Vlasov’s so-called movement, and Mikhail Samygin and Gleb Glinka – the creators of Vlasov’s media. The author analyzes their publications, trying to determine their ideologies and approach towards Vlasov’s movement and Nazi Germany, as well as to point out the differences between their views, which he further explains as the consequence of dissimilar social backgrounds, differing experiences of Soviet life, disparate psychological types of personality, and the divergent philosophical concepts which influenced them. The impact of the abovementioned factors on the fates of the three collaborationists is also considered.

Author Biography

Prof. Boris V. Sokolov

Philologist, PhD – Institute of Ethnography, USSR Academy of Sciences (1986), post-doctoral degree (Doctor habilitatus) – Philological Department, Moscow State Social University (1992), in the years 2002–2008 Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology of the Moscow State Social University, from 2015 a Member of the International Scientific Council of the Association of the Researchers of the Russian Society (AIROairo--XXI), Visiting Professor at the War Studies Academy in Warsaw (2017).
Selected publications:
Marshal Malinovskii: Hero of the Soviet Union (2017); Bulgakovskaia entsiklopediia. Samoe polnoe izdanie (2016); Tsena voiny: liudskie poteri Rossii/SSSR v XX–XXI vv. (2016); Master i demony sud́by (2016); Moia kniga o Vladimire Sorokine (2015); Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky: The Red Army’s Gentleman Commander (2015); The Role of the Soviet Union in the Second World War: A Re-examination (2013); Baron Ungern: chernii vsadnik (2006); Stalin, Bulgakov, Meierkhold (2004); Beriia. Sud́ba vsesiĺnogo narkoma (2003); Okkupatsiia. Pravda i mify (2002); Tainy vtoroi mirovoi (2001); Okhota na Stalina, okhota na Gitlera (2000); Tainy Finskoi voiny (2000).

Studia nad Totalitaryzmami i Wiekiem XX Tom 2 2018

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2025-09-21

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V. SOKOLOV, Boris. The Soviet Intellectual in Vlasov’s Movement: the Cases of Zykov, Samygin, and Glinka. Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies. Online. 21 September 2025. Vol. 2, pp. 66-75 (PL), 200-209 (ENG). [Accessed 30 December 2025]. DOI 10.12775/STW.2018.02.05.

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Vol. 2 (2018)

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