LANGUAGE EDITIONS in alphabetical order

(* earliest editions, 1995-1996)

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ENGLISH (2016; 2019)

• Judgment in Moscow, 9th November Press: Los Angeles, 2019 (unabridged, translated by Alyona Kozhevnikov).

• Judgement in Moscow, 2016 (abridged, translated & edited by John R. Crowfoot).

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FRENCH (1995) *

• Jugement à Moscou: Un dissident dans les archives du Kremlin, Robert Laffont: Paris, 1995 (tr. Louis Martinez), 562 pp; 629 end notes.

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GERMAN (1996) *

• Abrechnung mit Moskau. Das sowjetische Unrechtsregime und die Schuld des Westens, Lübbe Verlagsgruppe: Bergisch Gladbach, 1996 (tr. ?)

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ITALIAN (1999)

• Gli archivi segreti di Mosca, Spirali: Milan, 1999 (tr. Elena Corti)

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POLISH (1999)

• Moskiewski proces, publisher: Warsaw, 1999 (tr. ?)

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RUSSIAN (1996) *

• «Московский процесс», Russkaya mysl: Paris, 1996 (ed. Natalya Ye. Gorbanevskaya). No footnotes, end notes or links.

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WHY THE DELAY?

In “Sympathizers and Fellow-Travellers” (A Phoney War, 1.6), Bukovsky explained why an English-language edition of Judgement in Moscow did not appear in the mid-1990s, i.e., at the same time as the French, German and Russian editions:

“… our ‘looters’ [Chapter Two] did not care about the future: all they wanted was to preserve their position, if only for a few years more, by suppressing the truth at any cost. They proved remarkably successful, moreover, despite all the vaunted freedom of the press.“

He goes on:

“The best illustration I can offer is the fate of this book in the United States.

“It was bought by Random House in August 1995 for a considerable amount of money, but they did not finalise or sign the contract. Instead, over the next five months (!), their senior editor, Jason Epstein, tried to make me re-write the whole text from a liberal-left perspective [⁷⁸].

“Of course, he did not say that he disagreed with me politically: on the contrary, in almost every fax he emphasized his sympathy for my views.”

John Crowfoot, March 2025

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