KGB MEMORANDUM. Soviet support for the “Black Panthers”, both in the USA and through contacts in African countries: a means of distracting the US administration [R: 28 April 1970 – 1128-A]. 2 pp. ================= [page one of two] Top Secret SPECIAL FILE USSR Committee for State Security [KGB] at the USSR Council of Ministers 28 … Continue reading Support Black Panthers in the USA and in Africa (28 April 1970*, 1128-A)
POLITBURO decision. A highly classified Politburo document illustrating financial relations between the PCI (Italian Communist Party) and the Soviet Union. The amount in dollars was added by hand [R: 18 January 1983, Pb 94-52]. One page. ================ [one page] Workers of all Lands, Unite! Must be returned within three days to the CPSU Central Committee … Continue reading PCI funding (18 Jan 1983*, Pb 94/52)
KGB REPORT. Meeting in the Netherlands between a KGB source and Count Georg-Volkmar ZEDTWITZ von ARNIM, a director of the Krupp corporation, on behalf of the West German SPD [R: 9 September 1969, 2273-A]. 2 pp. ====================================== [page one of two] SPECIAL FILE Top Secret USSR Committee for State Security [KGB] at the USSR Council … Continue reading Krupp, KGB and W. German contacts (9 Sept 1969*, No 2273-A)
Intentions of Crimean Tatars to appeal to the United Nations. A memorandum passed to the Central Committee by the KGB concerning Pyotr GRIGORENKO's remarks [R: 10 June 1968, 1342-A]. One page. ============================= [Page one of one] USSR Committee for State Security [KGB] at the USSR Council of Ministers 10 June 1968, No. 1342-AMoscow Secret To … Continue reading Crimean Tatars appeal to UN (10 June 1968*, 1342-A)
«The Stalin Years, 1929-1953» The Bukovsky Archives contain relatively little on the Stalin era. The majority of files focus on the period when Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Union's other long-serving leader (1964-1982), was in power. Yet Brezhnev, too, first came to prominence within the Party during Stalin's time. * STALIN For over twenty years Stalin … Continue reading A QUOTA FOR KILLINGS: The Great Terror and its long-term impact
SECRETARIAT Resolution. Visit to the Soviet Union by Giovanni CERVETTI, a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) leadership, during which financial matters were to be discussed. Includes 4 October 1979 (25-S-1803) memorandum from ZAGLADIN [R: 5 October 1979, St 179-32]. 3 pp. =============================== [page one of three] No St 179/32, 5 October 1979 Top … Continue reading Visit to Moscow by Giovanni Cervetti, PCI (5 Oct 1979*, St 179/32)
NKVD in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic requests an increase of 30,000 people in Ukraine's quota for executions and arrests. Politburo agrees [R 17 February 1938, Pb 58-57]. ============================== [page one of one] Workers of All Lands, Unite! STRICTLY SECRET(Special File) CENTRAL COMMITTEEof the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) Pb 58/57 17 February 1938 To Comrade … Continue reading Great Terror in Ukraine (17 Feb 1938*, Pb 58/57)
Encrypted telegram to STALIN and YEZHOV from YULY KAGANOVICH: a request to increase the quota for executions and arrests in the Gorky Region and extend the deadline until 20 March [R: 4 February 1938, No 95-III]. One page. ============================= [page one of one] TO BE RETURNED WITHIN 48 HOURS [Central Committee Politburo Resolution, 5 May … Continue reading Great Terror in Gorky Region (4 Feb 1938*, No 95/III)
The Bukovsky Archives 