The fifth chapter in the online version of JUDGEMENT IN MOSCOW offers insight into the beliefs of Soviet Party and KGB rulers, the dubious role of the infiltrated NTS and Bukovsky's own experience of the same, and the years of pressure exerted by the KGB on Andrei Sinyavsky and his wife Maria Rozanova. Bukovsky's view … Continue reading What “They” Believed: Chapter 5
One vivid section of JUDGEMENT IN MOSCOW describes two of the three punishments to which Bukovsky was himself subjected as an active opponent of the Soviet regime. He also served time in prison and the camps. After his conviction, he was sent in 1972 to Vladimir Central, the prison where 'serious offenders' were held, and … Continue reading Deportation or the Madhouse: Chapter 4
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 6 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)
(Updated 8 June 2026) Two years ago a revised BOOK version of Bukovsky's last major work was posted on this website. Lengthy chapters (e.g. "Back to the Future", 76,000 words, 182 footnotes) were broken down into shorter form but retained their numerous footnotes and unillustrated texts. Now an ONLINE version is being added. Footnote references … Continue reading Judgement in Moscow (online)
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: 1914-76 Covers the period from the outbreak of World War One up to the exchange of Bukovsky in … Continue reading 04. Chronology (1914-2019)
"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 the complete and final version of events and fully explains … Continue reading “Opinion & Evidence” (update 2)
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 … Continue reading “Judgement” & CC Documents (update 1)
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 (Apr ’79*)
