Michael Ledeen, FREEDOM BETRAYED, 1996 Chapter Three (pp. 69-70) [T]he West should have insisted on a proper accounting, if not for the millions of collaborators, certainly for the ruling elites. […] we should have understood the vital importance of making public the historical record of Communist tyranny. […] For a few brief months after the … Continue reading How the Soviet Archives were opened and shut
Category: 00. Vladimir K. Bukovsky
Владимир Константинович БУКОВСКИЙ
Essays, Articles, etc. (1977-2016)
Vladimir K. Bukovsky (1943-2019) << A selection >> "Punitive Psychiatry", Foreword to Sidney Bloch and Peter Reddaway, Russia's Political Hospitals, 1977. "The Peace Movement and the USSR", Commentary, 5 January 1982. "Support the Nicaraguan Resistance", New York Times, 18 April 1985. "Is Glasnost a Game of Mirrors?" New York Times, 22 March 1987. "Night of … Continue reading Essays, Articles, etc. (1977-2016)
Bukovsky laid to rest (November 2019)
On Tuesday, 19 November 2019, Vladimir BUKOVSKY was buried in Highgate Cemetery, north London, after a service conducted by an Orthodox priest at the chapel nearby. Among those who spoke later at the funeral reception in Lauderdale House were Mustafa Dzhemilev, leader of the Crimean Tatar nation; journalist and veteran Soviet dissident Alexander Podrabinek; and … Continue reading Bukovsky laid to rest (November 2019)
“How I copied these documents” (V.K. Bukovsky)
In 2008, doubts were cast on the value and, even, the authenticity of the documents copied in Moscow by Bukovsky in the second half of 1992. This was in part a repetition of the furore in 1992 over the doctoring of a 1973 KGB report to the Politburo about Andrei Sinyavsky. Bukovsky himself responded to … Continue reading “How I copied these documents” (V.K. Bukovsky)
Obituary: Vladimir K. BUKOVSKY, 1942-2019
Belebei (USSR), 30 December 1942 — Cambridge (UK), 27 October 2019. Vladimir BUKOVSKY, once dubbed “a hero of almost legendary proportion among the Soviet dissident movement” by the New York Times, died of cardiac arrest in Addenbrookes Hospital, in Cambridge, England at 9:30 pm (Greenwich Mean Time) on 27 October 2019. He was 76. His … Continue reading Obituary: Vladimir K. BUKOVSKY, 1942-2019
“Judgment in Moscow”, on sale (May 2019)
“The movers and shakers of today have little interest in digging for the truth. Who knows what one may come up with? You may start out with the Communists and end up with yourself.” Vladimir BUKOVSKY ♦ Paperback, hardback and e-book versions available ♦ “The most important work to appear for decades on the Soviet … Continue reading “Judgment in Moscow”, on sale (May 2019)