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'''Peter''' or '''Pyotr Parfenovich Vlasov''', better known under his [[pen name]] '''Vladimirov''', ({{lang-ru|Пётр Парфёнович Влади́миров/Влáсов}}; 1905 – 10 September 1953) was a Soviet diplomat and journalist. He is best known for ''[[The Vladimirov Diaries]]'', in which he recounted the events in [[Yan'an]] during the [[Second World War]], particularly information on [[Mao Zedong]].<ref>[http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_we/vladimirov_pp.php Петр Парфенович Владимиров]. hrono.ru</ref><ref name=b1>{{cite book|author1=В. М. Лурье|author2=Валерий Яковлевич Кочик|title=ГРУ: дела и люди|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntdwNtWguWEC&pg=PA365|year=2002|publisher=ОЛМА Медиа Групп|isbn=978-5-7654-1499-6|page=365}}</ref> The diary criticized Mao's government, and was heavily edited for Soviet propaganda purposes.
'''Peter''' or '''Pyotr Parfenovich Vlasov''', better known under his [[pen name]] '''Vladimirov''', ({{lang-ru|Пётр Парфёнович Влади́миров/Влáсов}}; 1905 – 10 September 1953) was a Soviet diplomat and journalist. He is best known for ''[[The Vladimirov Diaries]]'', in which he recounted the events in [[Yan'an]] during the [[Second World War]], particularly information on [[Mao Zedong]].<ref>[http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_we/vladimirov_pp.php Петр Парфенович Владимиров]. hrono.ru</ref><ref name=b1>{{cite book|author1=В. М. Лурье|author2=Валерий Яковлевич Кочик|title=ГРУ: дела и люди|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntdwNtWguWEC&pg=PA365|year=2002|publisher=ОЛМА Медиа Групп|isbn=978-5-7654-1499-6|page=365}}</ref> The diary criticized Mao's government, and was heavily edited for Soviet propaganda purposes.


From May 1938 through to November 1945, he served as a correspondent for the [[Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union]] (TASS). At the same time, from May 1942 to 1945, Vladimirov also acted as a liaison officer for [[Comintern]] to the headquarters of the [[Communist Party of China]] in [[Yan'an]], the capital of the so-called [[Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region]].
From May 1938 through to November 1945, he served as a correspondent for the [[Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union]] (TASS). At the same time, from May 1942 to 1945, Vladimirov also acted as a liaison officer for [[Comintern]] to the headquarters of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] in [[Yan'an]], the capital of the [[Yan'an Soviet]].{{cn}}


Vladimirov's last appointment was as a [[Myanmar–Russia relations|Soviet ambassador to Burma]] in 1952, but due to an illness which eventually led to his death, he never took up the position.
Vladimirov's last appointment was as a [[Myanmar–Russia relations|Soviet ambassador to Burma]] in 1952, but due to an illness which eventually led to his death, he never took up the position.{{cn}}


Vlasov was married to Maria Danilovna Vlasova; they had two sons, Boris and Yury. Yury became an Olympic weightlifting champion and a prominent writer; he published his father's diaries in 1973, twenty years after his death.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.biograph.comstar.ru/bank/vlasov_yp.htm |title=ВЛАСОВ Юрий Петрович |work=biograph.comstar.ru |language=Russian |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118043933/http://www.biograph.comstar.ru/bank/vlasov_yp.htm |archivedate=18 November 2007 }}</ref> According to [[Philip Short]], this was done "on instructions from the [[Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPSU Central Committee Secretariat]], 'in the context of worsening relations with China', and underwent high-level editing and censorship. Its purpose was propagandistic. No contemporary diary ever existed, but it was based, at least in part, on Vlasov's radio messages to Moscow, conserved in the Soviet archives."<ref name="Short">{{cite book |last=Short |first=Philip |author-link=Philip Short |date=June 2023 |title=Mao: The Man Who Made China |location=London |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-35-037672-4}}</ref> Yury would also go on to claim that his father was poisoned "on the orders of"<ref name="Short"/> Soviet secret police chief [[Lavrentiy Beria]].
Vlasov was married to Maria Danilovna Vlasova; they had two sons, Boris and Yury. Yury became an Olympic weightlifting champion and a prominent writer; he published his father's diaries in 1973, twenty years after his death.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.biograph.comstar.ru/bank/vlasov_yp.htm |title=ВЛАСОВ Юрий Петрович |work=biograph.comstar.ru |language=Russian |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118043933/http://www.biograph.comstar.ru/bank/vlasov_yp.htm |archivedate=18 November 2007 }}</ref> According to [[Philip Short]], this was done "on instructions from the [[Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPSU Central Committee Secretariat]], 'in the context of worsening relations with China', and underwent high-level editing and censorship. Its purpose was propagandistic. No contemporary diary ever existed, but it was based, at least in part, on Vlasov's radio messages to Moscow, conserved in the Soviet archives."<ref name="Short">{{cite book |last=Short |first=Philip |author-link=Philip Short |date=June 2023 |title=Mao: The Man Who Made China |location=London |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-35-037672-4}}</ref> Yury would also go on to claim that his father was poisoned "on the orders of" Soviet secret police chief [[Lavrentiy Beria]].<ref name="Short" />


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 15:20, 5 July 2024

Pyotr Parfenovich Vladimirov
Pyotr Vlasov c. 1946
Born1905
Khrenovoe, Voronezh Governorate, Russian Empire
Died10 September 1953 (aged c. 48)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Alma materMoscow Institute of Oriental Studies
Occupation(s)Diplomat and journalist
Known forThe Vladimirov Diaries

Peter or Pyotr Parfenovich Vlasov, better known under his pen name Vladimirov, (Russian: Пётр Парфёнович Влади́миров/Влáсов; 1905 – 10 September 1953) was a Soviet diplomat and journalist. He is best known for The Vladimirov Diaries, in which he recounted the events in Yan'an during the Second World War, particularly information on Mao Zedong.[1][2] The diary criticized Mao's government, and was heavily edited for Soviet propaganda purposes.

From May 1938 through to November 1945, he served as a correspondent for the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS). At the same time, from May 1942 to 1945, Vladimirov also acted as a liaison officer for Comintern to the headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party in Yan'an, the capital of the Yan'an Soviet.[citation needed]

Vladimirov's last appointment was as a Soviet ambassador to Burma in 1952, but due to an illness which eventually led to his death, he never took up the position.[citation needed]

Vlasov was married to Maria Danilovna Vlasova; they had two sons, Boris and Yury. Yury became an Olympic weightlifting champion and a prominent writer; he published his father's diaries in 1973, twenty years after his death.[3] According to Philip Short, this was done "on instructions from the CPSU Central Committee Secretariat, 'in the context of worsening relations with China', and underwent high-level editing and censorship. Its purpose was propagandistic. No contemporary diary ever existed, but it was based, at least in part, on Vlasov's radio messages to Moscow, conserved in the Soviet archives."[4] Yury would also go on to claim that his father was poisoned "on the orders of" Soviet secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria.[4]

References

  1. ^ Петр Парфенович Владимиров. hrono.ru
  2. ^ В. М. Лурье; Валерий Яковлевич Кочик (2002). ГРУ: дела и люди. ОЛМА Медиа Групп. p. 365. ISBN 978-5-7654-1499-6.
  3. ^ "ВЛАСОВ Юрий Петрович". biograph.comstar.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 18 November 2007.
  4. ^ a b Short, Philip (June 2023). Mao: The Man Who Made China. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-35-037672-4.
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