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COMMUNISM ON TRIAL

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  • JUDGEMENT IN MOSCOW
    • online version (2026)
    • ONE: In the East (1-6)
    • 1. A Phoney War
    • 2. Night of the Looters
    • BACK TO THE FUTURE (3-6)
    • — 3. “Too Few”?
    • — 4. Deportation or Madhouse
    • — 5. What “They” Believed
    • — 6. Coming of Gorbachov
    • TWO: In the West (7-14)
    • 7. Betrayal
    • THE TURNING POINT (8-11)
    • REVOLUTION THAT NEVER WAS (12-14)
  • Articles
    • [v] “Only a Trial will do This Time” (2013)
    • [iv] Is Glasnost a Game of Mirrors? (1987)
    • [iii] Support the Nicaraguan Resistance [1985]
    • [ii] The Peace Movement and the USSR (1982)
    • [i] Punitive Psychiatry (1977)

Tag: living standards*

Shortages of salt (17 Feb 1981*, St 250/10)

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)

Price rises (11 June 1979*, St 162/67)

09/07/201628/05/2026

SECRETARIAT. Warning to First Secretaries of Party in Republics and Regions about price rises (from 18% to 95%) for cars, furs, gold, carpets, etc as of 1 July 1979 [R: 11 June 1979, St 162-67] 8 pp (excerpt). ================================= [page two] Top Secret TO THE FIRST SECRETARIES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEES OF UNION … Continue reading Price rises (11 June 1979*, St 162/67)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"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." Rebuilding Russia (1990)

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".)

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