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Theodore Karasik, RAND Corporation: Soviet Archives after 1991 (1993)

ORGANISATION, ACCESS, and DECLASSIFICATION. Theodore Karasik National Defense Research Institute, RAND Corporation (Published 1993) * INTRODUCTION The post-Soviet archives examined in this monograph are organized into six separate groups: (1) the Russian State archival system; (2) the Russian foreign ministry archives; (3) the Russian Presidential Archive; (4) the Committee for State Security (KGB) archives; (5) … Continue reading Theodore Karasik, RAND Corporation: Soviet Archives after 1991 (1993)

How the Soviet Archives were opened — and shut (Ledeen)

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Michael Ledeen, FREEDOM BETRAYED Chapter Three (pp. 69-70) [T]he West should have insisted on a proper accounting, if not for the millions of collaborators, certainly for the ruling elites. […] we should have understood the vital importance of making public the historical record of Communist tyranny. […] For a few brief months after the fall … Continue reading How the Soviet Archives were opened — and shut (Ledeen)