* Soviet Archives after 1991 ORGANISATION, ACCESS, and DECLASSIFICATION. Theodore Karasik National Defense Research Institute, RAND Corporation (Published 1993) * INTRODUCTION The post-Soviet archives examined in this monograph are organized into six separate groups: (1) the Russian State archival system; (2) the Russian foreign ministry archives; (3) the Russian Presidential Archive; (4) the Committee for … Continue reading Karasik, Soviet Archives post-1991
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 Soviet Archives opened — and shut
* Vladimir K. Bukovsky (1942-2019) << A selection >> * "Punitive Psychiatry" (Bloch & Reddaway, Russia's Political Hospitals), 1977. * TO BUILD A CASTLE: My Life as a Dissenter, André Deutsch: London, 1978 (345 pp). Translation, Michael Scammell. * "The Peace Movement and the USSR", Commentary, 5 January 1982. "Support the Nicaraguan Resistance", New York … Continue reading Bukovsky: Essays, Articles and Books (1977-2019)
RF PRESIDENTIAL ARCHIVE. List of eight documents reflecting Politburo discussion and action in relation to Poland, between August 1980 and September 1982 [R: Jul 92]. One page. For translations of these documents see this websiteand section 9.4 The USSR and Poland. * Politburo documents about Poland ================= [page one of one] LIST documents from the … Continue reading Politburo about Poland (Jul ’92*)
* "The Past on Trial" ('92): CPSU hearings Russia one year later * Richard PIPES [1] «The Washington Post» (16 Aug 1992) In the morning hours of 7 July 1992 an unusual spectacle unfolded in the center of Moscow, off Staraya Ploshchad, where until recently the all-powerful Central Committee of the Communist Party of the … Continue reading CPSU on Trial (’92)
* CPSU CC documents about Afghanistan Letter to Chairman of the RF Constitutional Court. Request for 27 CPSU Central Committee documents about Afghanistan to be added to the case materials for the defence at the CPSU Trial [R 31 Dec 92]. 5 pp. Afghanistan See 9.2 The USSR and Afghanistan for translations of most of … Continue reading Afghanistan (31 Dec ’92*)
The Bukovsky Archives 