POLITBURO decision. Publish a brief report in Moscow evening newspaper about trial of Vladimir Bukovsky, Vadim Delaunay and Yevgeny Kushev, arrested after 22 January 1967 protest on Pushkin Square [R: 4 September 1967, Pb 1393]. Contains joint KGB-Central Committee Agitprop Department memorandum (2 September 1967, 2241-A), and draft text of newspaper announcement, 4 pp. ============================= … Continue reading Report about Bukovsky (4 Sept 1967*, Pb 1393)
KGB MEMORANDUM. Samizdat publication in Obninsk by Zhores MEDVEDEV of Solzhenitsyn’s book The First Circle. KGB plans to detain Pyotr YAKIR with copies of the typescript [R: 31 July 1967, 1931-A]. 3 pp. =============================== [page one of three] Secret USSR Committee for State Security [KGB] at the USSR Council of Ministers 31 July 1967, No.1931-A … Continue reading Solzhenitsyn, “The First Circle”, samizdat publication (31 July 1967*, 1931-A)
INFORMATION DEPARTMENT TO CENTRAL COMMITTEE. Memo critical of preparations for forthcoming trial of GINZBURG, GALANSKOV, Dobrovolsky and Lashkova [R: 25 November 1967]. 5 pp (excerpt). =============================================== [page one of five] MEMORANDUM About the case of the anti-Soviet group of Ginzburg, Galanskov, Dobrovolsky and Lashkova In their present form the charges in the case of Ginzburg, … Continue reading Preparing for Ginzburg-Galanskov trial (25 Nov 1967*, CC Information Dep’t)
POLITBURO. Directions to Soviet ambassadors in the Eastern bloc, and in Western countries, concerning the forthcoming trial of GINZBURG, GALANSKOV, Alexei Dobrovolsky and Vera Lashkova [R: 22 December 1967, Pb 63-122]. 2 pp. ============================= [page one of two] Workers of all Lands, Unite! COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION. CENTRAL COMMITTEE Top Secret Pb 63 … Continue reading Ginzburg-Galanskov trial (22 Dec 1967*, Pb 63/122)
POLITBURO meeting. Request by Molotov and Kaganovich to be re-admitted to the Party; exchange of views about Khrushchov and Stalin [R: 12 Jul 84, Pb]. 6 pp. =========================================================== [page one of six] Top Secret Single Copy (Draft Minutes) MEETING OF CPSU POLITBURO, 12 July 1984 chaired by Comrade K.U. CHERNENKO Comrades in attendance:G.A. Aliyev, V.I. … Continue reading Discussion of Stalin, Khrushchov and others (12 July 1984*, Pb)
KGB REPORT. Physicist Lev LANDAU’s admiration for the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and his comments about Bolshevik fascism [R: 19 December 1957]. 17 pp (Excerpt). ====================== Identifying the rebels with the Hungarian nation and working class, he characterised the events in Hungary as ‘the Hungarian Revolution’, a ‘very good, joyful event’ in which ‘the warrior-nation' was … Continue reading Landau on Hungary and Bolshevik fascism [1] (19 Dec 1957*, KGB)
KGB REPORT (Semichastny). Change in procedures for informing relatives about prisoners’ date of execution in the Stalin era [R: 25 December 1962, 3265-S], 4 pp. =================================== [page one of three] Top Secret USSR Committee for State Security [KGB] of the USSR Council of Ministers 25 December 1962, No. 3265-S Moscow To the CPSU Central Committee … Continue reading Concealing Stalin-era execution dates (25 Dec 1962*, 3265-S)
SECRETARIAT. Creation of the “Mill”, a fake border post in the Soviet Far East (1941-1949), to test the loyalty of individuals who were then arrested and imprisoned; many were shot [R: 4 October 1956, St 1061]. 9 pp (excerpt). ============================ [page one of nine] Top Secret To be returned, after the meeting of the Secretariat, … Continue reading Fake border post in Soviet Far East (4 Oct 1956*, St 1061)
SECRETARIAT gives go-ahead for talks with director Francis Ford COPPOLA about a joint Soviet-American feature film about disarmament. Includes 12 July memorandum from Culture and International Departments, and letter from head of Goskino [R: 17 July 1979, St 167-18]. 5 pp. =============== [page one of five] Workers of all Lands, Unite! COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE … Continue reading Coppola & joint US-Soviet film (17 July 1979*, St 167/18)
The Bukovsky Archives 