Two additions to the website outline events taking place at three levels and on three different TIMESCALES: A Wider World (1914-2014); Russia and the USSR (1917-2015); the Life and Work of Vladimir Bukovsky (1942-2019). * Chronology One: 1914-1976 Covers the period from the outbreak of World War One up to the exchange of Bukovsky in … Continue reading 04. Chronology (1914-2019): The World, Russia/USSR, V.K. Bukovsky

Website UPDATE (two) [See added Postscript, 31 March 2025] * "So many fantastic lies have been created about Gorbachov and his 'reforms',” wrote Bukovsky in the opening words of Chapter 12, "that we can trust only the documents." Can we? The documents tell a different story, of that we can be sure. Whether it is … Continue reading OPINION AND EVIDENCE

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; … Continue reading “Judgement in Moscow” and classified Central Committee documents

24 April 1979, Pb 150/129 [3.2] – POLITBURO DECISION. Deprivation of citizenship for Eduard KUZNETSOV, Mark DYMSHITS, Valentyn MOROZ, Georgy VINS and Alexander GINZBURG, and their exchange for two US spies [R: 24 April 1979, Pb 150-129]. 10 pp. =========================== SUMMARY In late April members of the Politburo approved the draft decrees of the Presidium … Continue reading Political releases, April 1979*

In 2013, a year before the annexation of CRIMEA and the invasion of eastern UKRAINE, Vladimir BUKOVSKY set out the conditions under which Russia could regain the path to true liberty and democracy. In late 1991 the Soviet Union fell apart but as Bukovsky described in his last major work "Judgement in Moscow" (2016) fragments … Continue reading “Only a Trial will do this time” (2013)