POLITBURO MEETING. Situation in Poland; future meeting between ANDROPOV, KANIA and JARUZELSKI; economic reforms & martial law [R 2 April 1981, Politburo], 7 pp (excerpts). ========================================== [page one of seven] Top Secret Single Copy (Draft Minutes) MEETING OF CPSU POLITBURO, 2 April 1981 chaired by Comrade L.I. BREZHNEV Comrades in attendance: Yu.V. Andropov, M.S. Gorbachev, … Continue reading Poland: meet, reform, martial law (2 April ’81* Pb)
POLITBURO decision to pardon Andrei Sinyavsky. Includes draft Edict (not for publication) and undated joint note from KGB Chairman, the Procurator-General and the USSR Minister of Justice proposing this decision [R: 19 May 1971, Pb 4-48]. 4 pp. * Pardon Sinyavsky (19 May '71*, Pb 4/48) * ========================== [page one of four] Workers of all … Continue reading Pardon Sinyavsky (19 May ’71* Pb)
KGB to Politburo: proposal that Soviet bloc boycott International Rostropovich Competition in Paris. Draft CPSU decree attached [R: 12 May 1977, 958-A]. 2 pp. Boycott Rostropovich (12 May '77*, 958-A) * =============================================== [page one of two] Secret 12 May 1977No.958-A To the CPSU Central Committee The international Rostropovich competition for young cellists According to information … Continue reading Boycott Rostropovich (12 May ’77* A)
POLITBURO decision about the mentally ill. ANDROPOV circulates to fellow Politburo members a report from Krasnodar Region KGB suggesting a widespread threat from the mentally ill to public order and the Soviet system. Includes (p. 2) Andropov's note to the Politburo (19 Jan '70, 141-A), and a report (pp. 3-5) to Andropov from Major-General SMORODINSKY … Continue reading Abuse of Psychiatry (22 Jan ’70* Pb)
POLITBURO meeting. What to do with Alexander SOLZHENITSYN: arrest him, put him on trial, imprison or deport him? Russian text first published in Russkaya mysl (Paris), 30 September & 10 October 1993. [Russian text, see below.] ============================================= Top Secret Single Copy (Draft Minutes) MEETING OF CPSU POLITBURO, 7 January 1974 chaired by Comrade L.I. BREZHNEV … Continue reading Imprison or deport Solzhenitsyn (7 Jan ’74*, Pb)
KGB MEMORANDUM. ANDROPOV to BREZHNEV on possibility of using Willy BRANDT to help expel SOLZHENITSYN from USSR to FRG, after his declarations in Solzhenitsyn’s defence [R: 7 February 1974, 350-A-ov]. 2 pp. Deport Solzhenitsyn to West Germany (7 Feb '74*, 350-A/ov) * ================================================ [page one of two] MEMORANDUM FROM USSR COMMITTEE OF STATE SECURITY [KGB] … Continue reading Deport Solzhenitsyn (7 Feb ’74* A)
KGB (Andropov) to Central Committee: the attitude of PCF and PCI (French and Italian Communist Parties) toward human rights issues. Includes information (p. 3) on the conviction of dissenters in the USSR since 1958 [R: 29 December 1975, 3213-A]. 5 pp. * PCF, PCI & human rights (29 Dec '75*, 3213-A) * ================================= [page one … Continue reading PCF, PCI, human rights (29 Dec ’75* A)
POLITBURO decision. Publish a brief report in Moscow evening newspaper about trial of Vladimir Bukovsky (feature photo), Vadim Delaunay and Yevgeny Kushev, arrested after 22 January 1967 protest on Pushkin Square. Contains joint KGB-Central Committee Agitprop Department memorandum (2 September 1967, 2241-A), and draft text of newspaper announcement [R: 4 September 1967, Pb 1393]. 4 … Continue reading About Bukovsky (4 Sept ’67* Pb)
