From 2013 to 2015, I translated Bukovsky’s "Judgement in Moscow" from Russian into English; I also retrieved hundreds of footnotes from the 1995 French edition of the book. Here now, in an ONLINE version (Chapters 1 to 3 thus far), those footnotes are included as links to accessible online translations and some untranslated Russian documents; … Continue reading “Too Few”? (chapters 1-3)
[About the Compiler, Vladimir Bukovsky] Over 700 files, some including several documents, are to be found in this archive. In total, they contain more than 4,500 pages. Over three quarters of the notes in Part One, and more than half of the notes in Part Two, of JUDGEMENT in MOSCOW derive from files in this … Continue reading Using this Archive (June 2026)
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)
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*)
11 January 1976, 81-A [3.2; 2.2] – KGB MEMORANDUM. Measures to prevent an “illegal” commemorative meeting in honour of the 1825 Decembrist Rebellion [R: 11 January 1976, 81-A]. One page. =============================== SUMMARY In an 11 January 1976 memorandum to the Central Committee, Andropov reported how the KGB had prevented a "hostile demonstration in Leningrad" the … Continue reading Decembrist demonstration, 1975*
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)
KGB REPORT (Kryuchkov) to Central Committee [3.4; 4]. "Provocative statements" made at October 1988 Moscow conference organised by the Memorial Society [R: 16 Nov 88, 1979-K]. 5 pp. ============================ [page one of five] 16 November 1988, No 1979-K To the CPSU Central Committee Concerning provocative statements made by certain participants of the All-Union Voluntary Historical … Continue reading Founding “Memorial” (16 Nov 1988*, 1979-K)
The Bukovsky Archives 