“Judgement in Moscow” and classified Central Committee documents

Website UPDATE (one).

TWO MAJOR COMPONENTS make up this website: [1] classified documents found in 1992 in the CPSU Central Committee archive by Bukovsky, and [2] his last major work, “Judgement in Moscow“, where his views are supported by extensive quotations from those clandestine texts.

Neither is complete without the other. The documents require interpretation; the assertions in Bukovsky’s book demand access to the secret documents on which, to a greater or lesser extent, they are based.

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Judgement in Moscow has been translated twice into English and published as a book: online here (2016) and in printed form (2019). I retrieved six hundred odd notes from the 1995 French edition and added them to the English version online. They were subsequently incorporated into the unabridged printed form, as well.

On a website such as this, they can be linked in a more useful and informative fashion.

In traditional form such footnotes and end notes offer brief coded details, either in the text (8 October 1976*, 2280-A) or at the end of each chapter. e.g., “25 December 1977, p. 3”. It seems more helpful in both cases to provide a direct link to the archival entry and repeat its descriptive English summary, e.g.,

In this way the book and these archives may be more easily read, compared and examined, whether in a full and annotated English translation or as a summary.

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This has doubled the number of end-notes, but makes it much easier to see what Bukovsky’s arguments are based on — apart, that is, from his own lifetime’s experience (CCE tagged items, “Bukovsky, V.*”).

John Crowfoot

17 December 2024 (revised)

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