Reckoning with Moscow
A Dissident in the Kremlin's Archives
Vladimir Bukovsky(Author)
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Published on 16. March 2000
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-7195-5444-5 (ISBN)
Description
After spending 12 years in Soviet labour camps, prisons and lunatic asylums, the dissident Vladimir Bukovsky was deported from Russia in 1976 in exchange for the leader of the Chilean Communist Party. He continued to campaign tirelessly in defence of the rights of his fellow countrymen and, sticking to his belief that the communist regime was deep in crisis, he urged that no compromise should be offered to the Politburo in trade or diplomacy. After the fall of the communist regime in Moscow in 1991 he returned to do what he could to ensure comprehensive reform. His particular project, which is the heart of this volume, was to examine the secret Kremlin archives so as to expose the nastiness of the regime not only under Stalin but even under Gorbachev. He has brought back from Moscow a cornucopia of high-level political secrets about the events that have shaped our times: "detente", the anti-dissident campaign, the Polish solidarity movement, the Societ invasion of Afghanistan and the origins of "perestroika".
Through his access to the archives - including documents of his own dissident activity - he indicts not only the regime but also its foreign supporters and "fellow travellers".
Through his access to the archives - including documents of his own dissident activity - he indicts not only the regime but also its foreign supporters and "fellow travellers".
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 159 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7195-5444-5 (9780719554445)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Phoney war - who cares?; the night after the battle - back to the Lubyanka; back to the future; treason; turning-point years; revolution that never took place; retribution.