КПСС, идеология и политика
SECRETARIAT. Negotiations between Soviet and US Academies of Sciences to resume contacts broken off in early 1980 [R: 16 December 1980]. 8 pp (excerpt). ============================================== [page one of eight] Workers of all Lands, Unite! [Vertical text along left-hand margin] Return to the CPSU Central Committee (General Department, Sector II) within 15 days after receipt (Central … Continue reading US and Soviet Academies of Science (16 Dec 1980*, St 241/9)
SECRETARIAT. Preparations for a meeting of central committee secretaries with responsibility for international affairs in the fraternal parties of socialist countries. Discussion of international peace movement [R: 9 June 1980, St 214-74]. 12 pp (excerpts). ======================================================== [page one of twelve] Workers of all Lands, Unite! COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION. CENTRAL COMMITTEE [Text along … Continue reading 9 June 1980* (St 214/74) Peace movement
POLITBURO. The situation in “A” (the decision to invade Afghanistan) as recorded in two vaguely worded documents, 12 and 26 December [R: 12 December 1979, No 997]. handwritten & typed, 2 pp. ============================= Top Secret Special File In the chair, Comrade L.I. Brezhnev present: Suslov, Grishin, Kirilenko, Pelshe, Ustinov, Chernenko, Andropov, Gromyko, Tikhonov, [candidate member] Ponomaryov … Continue reading Situation in “A”: decide to invade (12 Dec 1979*, Pb 176/125)
POLITBURO. Report on results of a meeting between ANDROPOV, USTINOV and representatives (KANIA, JARUZELSKI) of the Polish government and Party [R: 9 April 1981, Politburo, para 3]. 8 pp. ===================================================== [page one of eight] Top Secret Single Copy (Draft Minutes) MEETING OF CPSU POLITBURO, 2 April 1981 chaired by Comrade K.U. CHERNENKO Comrades in attendance: … Continue reading Meeting Polish government & party (9 April 1981*, Pb §3)
KGB MEMORANDUM. Tactics for discrediting the author and contents of Only One Year, a new book by Stalin’s daughter Svetlana ALLILUYEVA [R: 5 November 1969, 2792-A]. 4 pp (excerpt). ============================================================== [page two of four - page one contains only two written words] SPECIAL FILE Top Secret USSR Committee for State Security [KGB] at the USSR … Continue reading Discrediting Alliluyeva (5 Nov 1969*, 2792-A)
KGB MEMORANDUM (Andropov). Items of art confiscated by KGB transferred to the Kremlin museums [R: 13 February 1982, 317-A]. One page. ===================================== [Page one of one] Secret Committee of State Security [KGB] 13 February 1982, No 317-A, Moscow To the CPSU Central Committee The transfer of works of art to the Moscow Kremlin State Museums … Continue reading KGB confiscated art (13 Feb 1982*, 317-A)
POLITBURO meeting. Alexander YAKOVLEV reports on the Eighth Congress of the Writers' Union. Ways to manage changes in the union's bureaucracy discussed [R: 26 Jun 86, Pb]. 5 pp. ========================================== [page one of five] Top Secret Single Copy (Draft Minutes) MEETING OF CPSU POLITBURO, 26 June 1986 In the chair Comrade M.S. GORBACHOV In attendance: … Continue reading Yakovlev on Congress of USSR Writers’ Union (26 June 1986*, Pb)
SECRETARIAT decision. Terms for inviting "communist, workers’ and national democratic" party officials to the USSR in 1971: organization of their accommodation, healthcare and other related expenditure [R: 28 July 1971 – St 123-30]. 2 pp. =========================================================== [page one of two] Workers of all lands, unite! COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION, CENTRAL COMMITTEE Top secret … Continue reading Hosting foreign Communists in the USSR (28 July 1971*, St 123/30)
INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT memorandum to Central Committee (25 October 1976, 25-S-2025). Text attached to Soviet ambassadors in various countries, concerning the Western "anti-Soviet" campaign about dissidents and involvement of French Communist Party (PCF) in that campaign [R: 25 October 1976, No 25-S-2025]. 3 pp. ======================================= [page one of three] Secret 2nd sector To the CPSU Central … Continue reading PCF and dissidents (25 Oct 1976*, Int’l Dept)
The Bukovsky Archives 