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    • 19. January-December 1981
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    • 22. 1987 and 1988
    • 23. January-December 1989
    • 24. 1990 to 1994
  • JUDGEMENT IN MOSCOW
    • online version (2026)
    • PART ONE (bk): the East, 1-6
    • PART TWO (bk): the West, 7-14
  • Articles
    • 5. “Only a Trial” (2013)
    • 4. A Game of Mirrors? (1987)
    • 3. Nicaragua [1985]
    • 2. Peace Movement (1982)
    • 1. Punitive Psychiatry (1977)

Tag: SINYAVSKY, Andrei*

Sinyavsky-Daniel Trial (5 Jan ’66* St)

06/06/201718/10/2026

SECRETARIAT. Preparations for the trial of Andrei SINYAVSKY and Yuly DANIEL. Includes joint memorandum from KGB chairman Semichastny and Procurator-General Rudenko [feature photo] (23 December 1965, 2843-S; pp. 2-7), and February 1966 report, pp. 8-9, on the outcome of the trial [R: 5 January 1966, St 132-11]. 9 pp (excerpts). * Sinyavsky-Daniel Trial preparations (5 … Continue reading Sinyavsky-Daniel Trial (5 Jan ’66* St)

Pardon Sinyavsky (19 May ’71* Pb)

08/07/201618/10/2026

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 Includes draft Edict (not for publication) and undated joint note from KGB Chairman, the Procurator-General and the USSR Minister of Justice proposing this decision [R: 19 May 1971, Pb 4-48]. 4 pp.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)

Sinyavsky, Pardon & Release (14 Jan ’69* Pb)

08/07/201618/10/2026

POLITBURO. Approve KGB measures prompting Andrei Sinyavsky to ask for a pardon. Includes text of 30 September 1968 (2281-A), Request from KGB, p 2. [R: 14 January 1969, Pb 111]. 2 pp. * Sinyavsky, Pardon & Release (14 Jan '69*, Pb 111) * ========================== [page one, on plain paper] Minute 11114 June 1969 MINUTED 2. … Continue reading Sinyavsky, Pardon & Release (14 Jan ’69* Pb)

Send Sinyavsky to France (26 Feb ’73* A)

05/07/201618/10/2026

KGB (Andropov) to CENTRAL COMMITTEE. The need to keep writer Andrei Sinyavsky, released from the camps in 1971, away from "anti-social elements". Offer and permit him the opportunity to work in France for three years [R: 26 February 1973, 409-A]. 2 pp. * Send Sinyavsky to France (26 Feb '73*, 409-A) {The attached Russian original … Continue reading Send Sinyavsky to France (26 Feb ’73* A)

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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