* Soviet Archives after 1991 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 … Continue reading Karasik, Soviet Archives post-1991
Michael Ledeen, FREEDOM BETRAYED (1996) 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 … Continue reading Soviet Archives opened — and shut
* "The Past on Trial" ('92): CPSU hearings Russia one year later * Richard PIPES [1] «The Washington Post» (16 Aug 1992) In the morning hours of 7 July 1992 an unusual spectacle unfolded in the center of Moscow, off Staraya Ploshchad, where until recently the all-powerful Central Committee of the Communist Party of the … Continue reading CPSU on Trial (’92)
Selected by a prominent Soviet-era dissident and veteran opponent of the regime, this archive is a unique source of information on the post-Stalin years of the USSR. In 1992, Vladimir Bukovsky was given access to the archives of the CPSU Central Committee in Moscow for a period of five months. The new Russian government of … Continue reading 02. The Status of these Archives
The Bukovsky Archives 