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    • online version (2026)
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Tag: human rights*

Discussion with Vance (18 Feb ’77* Pb)

16/09/201822/10/2026

Instructions to Anatoly DOBRYNIN, Soviet ambassador to the USA, concerning a discussion with Secretary of State Cyrus VANCE about human rights [R: 18 February 1977, Pb 46-X]. 7 pp (excerpt). * Discussion with Cyrus Vance (18 Feb '77*, Pb 46/X) * ================= Proletariats of the World unite! COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION. THE CENTRAL … Continue reading Discussion with Vance (18 Feb ’77* Pb)

On human rights (19 May ’77* Pb)

03/06/201722/10/2026

POLITBURO. Instructions to Soviet ambassadors on human rights issues [R: 19 May 1977, Pb 56-68]. 21 pp (excerpts). * Soviet ambassadors on human rights (19 May '77*, Pb 56/68) * ======================== [page two] Secret To all Soviet ambassadors and representatives Recently a wide and coordinated campaign has unfolded in the West concerning the phoney “violations … Continue reading On human rights (19 May ’77* Pb)

Stop “human rights” seminar (4 Dec ’87* Ch)

REPORT from leading Politburo members (SHEVARDNADZE (feature photo), ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV and CHEBRIKOV). Activists propose to hold seminar on human rights: measures to hinder seminar and participation of guests from abroad and other parts of USSR. File includes 19 December 1987 (2594-Ch) report on the success (pp. 6-9) of these obstructive measures [R: 4 Dec 87]. … Continue reading Stop “human rights” seminar (4 Dec ’87* Ch)

Block activists’ seminar (27 Jul ’88* K)

03/07/201618/10/2026

KGB MEMORANDUM. 'Anti-Soviet elements' intend to hold an international seminar in Moscow, "The KGB and Perestroika", inviting prominent foreigners and former dissidents to attend [R: 27 Jul 88, 1541-K]. 2 pp. Block activists' seminar (27 July '88*, 1541-K) * ========================== [page one of two] Top Secret 27 July 1988, No 1541-K To the CPSU Central … Continue reading Block activists’ seminar (27 Jul ’88* K)

Rebuilding Russia (1990)

"Time has finally run out for communism, but its concrete edifice has not yet crumbled. May we not be crushed beneath its rubble instead of gaining liberty."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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The Source

The classified documents that make up this archive were copied secretly by VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY in 1992 as he prepared to testify at the Trial of the CPSU. (See Night of the Looters, Chapter 2, abridged)

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