CPSU
Moldovan authorities releasing secret Soviet-era archival documents
February 10, 2010The Government released over 1,500 archival files of the Communist Party (CP) of the Soviet Union, as well as logs from meetings of the CP's Central Committee. Information from 1974-1984 is now available. Authorities plan to release every pre-1991 file...
How Gorbachev contributed to the ‘Karabakhization’ of Azerbaijani politics
January 19, 2010By Paul Goble Twenty years ago this week, Mikhail Gorbachev sent troops into Azerbaijan to crush the popular front there, but what the Soviet president achieved by his actions was the further radicalization of Azerbaijan and the “Karabakhization...
Why More Russian Archives are Likely to Close
June 01, 2009By Paul Goble A quirk in Russian law means that an official President Dmitry Medvedev has charged with combating historical falsifications has a decisive voice in determining whether the archives of the CPSU are open or not – an arrangement...
Could United Russia Go the Way of the CPSU?
May 27, 2009By Paul Goble Twenty years to the day after the Congress of Peoples Deputies opened the way to the end of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, a leader of the United Russia Party says his group “does not want to repeat [that] path...