SECRETARIAT. Concern about US intentions at forthcoming CSCE conference [1] in Madrid [R: 25 October 1979, St 182-27]. 3 pp. ======================= [page one of three] Workers of all Lands, Unite! COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION. CENTRAL COMMITTEE [text along left-hand margin] Return to CPSU Central Committee (General Dept, sector 1) within 15 days of … Continue reading US plans for CSCE Conference (25 Oct 1979*, St 182/27)
SECRETARIAT [1.3]. Complaints by the Soviet population about shortages of cooking salt, in shops and elsewhere [R: 17 February 1981, St 250-10]. 8 pp. ======================= [page one of eight] St 250/10, 17 February 1981 Top Secret RESOLUTION of the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee Complaints by working people about disruption in supplies of household … Continue reading Shortages of salt (17 Feb 1981*, St 250/10)
Twenty nine of the 42 Bukovsky Archive documents of the PERESTROIKA period, from June 1985 to December 1991, have been translated into English. To read them, go to "Translations" in this page's right-hand column and select 4. Perestroika. https://bukovsky-archive.com/4-perestroika-1985-1991/ ========================================
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)
KGB MEMORANDUM (Andropov), copy for Chernenko. Confiscation of matzo in parcels sent from abroad [R: 11 March 1975, 547-A]. One page. ============================ For Comrade K.U. Chernenko only [1] [Stamp] The agreement of the CPSU Central Committee has been obtained, reports Comrade Galkin, V.E., 1 Sector of CPSU Central Committee General Department [dated & signed] 12 … Continue reading Confiscation of matzo sent from abroad (11 March 1975*, 547-A)
KGB MEMORANDUM to Politburo describing the 25 August Red Square demonstrators. Signed by Andropov, KGB head; Shcholokov, Minister of Internal Affairs; and Malyarov, USSR Procurator’s Office [R: 5 Sept 1968, 2102-A]. 2 pp. ============================ [page one of two] Secret To the CPSU Central Committee Recently, especially in connection with events in Czechoslovakia, Litvinov, Bogoraz-Brukhman and … Continue reading 5 September 1968* (2102-A) 25 August Red Square demonstrators
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 State Security (KGB) archives; (5) … Continue reading Theodore Karasik, RAND Corporation: Soviet Archives after 1991 (1993)
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 How Soviet Archives were opened — and shut
<< September 1967 to February 1969 >> * HOOVER INSTITUTION annotation [1] Memorandum to the CPSU Central Committee from: V. Stepakov, Chief of the Propaganda Department; S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Research & Educational Institutions; and V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture concerning the manuscript "Under the Judgment of History" by … Continue reading “Let History Judge” (Medvedev) 1967-1969
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