File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re measures to be taken to secure the safety of Soviet institutions and Soviet citizens abroad; copy of the extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1980 June

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the People's Party of Iran to pay the airfare of ten party activists from Iran to the Soviet Union; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 May-June

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re publishing activity and personnel of the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo pechati Novosti - APN) in Kampuchea; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re publishing activity, financing, APN staff charts, and the appointment of a KGB officer as Deputy Chief of the APN Bureau in Kampuchea; the same extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, without item 3 of the agenda (re appointment of a KGB officer) to be stored in a special secret file; the same extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat containing only item 3 of the agenda; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Tolkunov, Chairman of the APN Board; resolution of the TsK KPSS; brief handwritten instruction to E. Tiazhelnikov; resolution of the TsK KPSS re appointment of a KGB officer as Deputy Chief of the APN Bureau in Kampuchea; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, 1980 April-June

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the USSR Council of Ministers re bilateral negotiations between the Ministry of Communications of the USSR and the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Romania on establishing telephone, telegraph, radio, and postal communication for a specific period; three draft decrees (differently formatted) of the USSR Council of Ministers; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Simonov, Chief of the Department of Transport and Communications; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Talyzin, Minister of Communications; resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to V. A. Shamshin, First Deputy Minister of the Post Office and Electrical Communication of the USSR, from G. Airinei(?), Deputy Minister of Transport and Telecommunications of Romania, 1980 March 1980 June

Files are unavailable, 1818-1992

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a request of A. Muhammad, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party, to exchange 60,000 rubles for US dollars; two identical extracts from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the request of A. Muhammad; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1979 November

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a request of the leadership of the Communist Party of India to exchange 17,000 rubles for Indian rupees; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the request; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 April-May

Memorandum to M. Gorbachev from O. Shenin, O. Baklanov, and A. V. Vlasov re a TsK KPSS conference to be held with the USSR Ministers on the political and economic situation in the USSR, 1991 January

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the editorial board of Agitator magazine to dismiss N. Zhelnin from the editorial board and approve V. IA. Pavlov and A. Volskii as members of the editorial board; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Dmitriuk, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and I. Kirichenko, Sector Head of the same department; personal data of Pavlov and Volskii, 1968 November-December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the appointment of A. Volskii as Head of the Sector of Automobile Industry of the Machine-Building Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Frolov, Chief of the Machine-Building Department; personal data of Volskii, 1969 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the appointment of A. Volskii as Deputy Chief of the Machine-Building Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Frolov, Chief of the Machine-Building Department; personal data of Volskii, 1977 July

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the appointment of A. Volskii as First Deputy Chief of the Machine-Building Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Frolov, Chief of the Machine-Building Department; personal data of Volskii, 1981 March

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re awarding the Red Banner Order for Labor to A. Volskii for his service to the KPSS and the Soviet state; draft decree (not to be published in the press) of the USSR Supreme Soviet; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1982 May

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the appointment of A. Volskii as Assistant to the General Secretary of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Bogoliubov, Chief of the General Department; personal data of Volskii, 1983 June

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the appointment of A. Volskii as First Deputy Chief of the Machine-Building Department and his dismissal from the position of Assistant to the General Secretary, and allowing him to keep health benefits, 1985 March

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re financial security of the officials of the Committee for Special Administration in the Nagorno-Karabakh Region; distribution list of the resolution; two identical memoranda (differently formatted) to the TsK KPSS from N. Kruchina and IE. Razumov; list of top KPSS and government authorities the resolution should be sent to, 1989 February

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat dismissing A. Volskii from his position as Chief of the TsK KPSS department owing to his election as President of the Scientific-Industrial Union of the USSR (Nauchno-Promyshlennyi Soiuz - NPS); distribution list for the resolution; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Zolotarev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Party Work and Cadres, 1990 November-December

Eight identical memoranda to the TsK KPSS from V. Terebilov, A. Sukharev, and B. Kravtsov re inappropriateness of the USSR Supreme Court investigating events [massacre] in the city of Sumgait (Nagorno-Karabakh Region), each with the signature of IE. Ligachev and another TsK secretary approving the conclusions of the memorandum; brief handwritten note from Startsev confirming that TsK secretaries voted; brief handwritten note from IE. Ligachev to A. Lukianov inquiring about Lukianov's opinion; brief handwritten note from A. Lukianov to IE. Ligachev confirming Lukianov's consent to the conclusions of the memorandum, 1988 June

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Belik, Deputy Chief of the Economic Department of the TsK KPSS, re delivery of prompt information to the TsK KPSS departments by the Main Directorate for Information (Glavinform) under the USSR Council of Ministers; two brief handwritten notes; brief instructions to V. Mozhin from L. Zaikov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Kossov, Chief of Glavinform, 1986 December 1987 April

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Slobodianiuk, Deputy Chief of the Department of Interethnic Relations, re territories in dispute between the Tadzhik and Kirghiz republics; brief instructions from A. Girenko; report on territories in dispute between the Tadzhik and Kirghiz republics compiled by E. Ivanov, Chief of the Directorate of the Committee for State Security (KGB), with cover letter to A. Girenko from V. Kriuchkov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), 1990 June-July

Memorandum to the Administration of TsK KPSS Affairs from Dzh. Amanbaev, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Kirghiz Communist Party, requesting allocation of 7,500,000 rubles to the Bereke commercial association, founded by the KPSS Committee of Chuyskaia oblast; table reflecting expected profit from the commercial activity of the association Bereke; statement to the TsK KPSS from V. Grishin confirming the deposit of 4,900,000 rubles to the account of the Central Committee of the Kirghiz Communist Party, 1991 June-August

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re amendments and comments to a letter to be sent to the French Communist Party (PCF); memorandum to the TsK KPSS (signature illegible) re criticism by the PCF of the KPSS re violation of human rights in the USSR; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the text of the memorandum to the PCF; the memorandum to the PCF, with handwritten amendments, 1977 February

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a memorandum from the Department of Science and Educational Institutions on psychiatric practice in the country; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with handwritten amendments, 1972 February

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a press release on the scheduled reception of V. Bukovskii [Soviet dissident] by J. Carter; two identical draft press releases (differently formatted); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin submitting a TASS request to release the information without additional approval by the TsK KPSS immediately after the reception of Bukovskii, 1977 March

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a hostile anti-Soviet film being produced in the Federal Republic of Germany; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, containing information about the film, 1977 March

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing transportation by Aeroflot [Soviet state airline] of 106 activists of progressive organizations of compatriots abroad, invited to the Soviet Union by the Association for Cultural Relations with Compatriots Abroad (Rodina (Motherland) Association); two extracts from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Stoletov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Rodina (Motherland) Association; statement on the expected distribution of Aeroflot tickets by the Rodina Association and its committees in republics and krais; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1979 March

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re financial assistance to the World Peace Council; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re allocation of $150,000 to the 1978 budget of the World Peace Council, and re providing the Soviet Peace Committee with 100 Aeroflot tickets for transportation of participants in international events (with a distribution list of the minutes); identical extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat (without a distribution list); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Academician IE. Fedorov, Deputy Chief of the Soviet Peace Committee, 1978 August-September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re actions of the SOS Group (American Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov, and Shcharanskii); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the proposal of the USSR Academy of Sciences to publish in Pravda (Truth) newspaper an article by Soviet scholars on the prospects for Soviet-American scientific cooperation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS (unsigned) re the pledge by 2,400 American scientists (SOS Group - American Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov, and Shcharanskii) to refrain from cooperation with Soviet scientists because of violation of human rights in the USSR; text of the statement of Soviet Academicians IU. Ovchinnikov, Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, IE. Velikhov, Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, G. Skriabin, Chief Academic Secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, L. Brekhovskikh, and N. Emanuel to be published in Pravda (Truth) newspaper; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Fedoseev, Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and Skriabin, 1979 March-April

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving proposals presented in the speech of L. Brezhnev re the international situation; text of the speech, 1978 June

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving draft instructions to Soviet ambassadors to the countries participating in the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe with regard to new Soviet initiatives put forward by L. Brezhnev in his speech addressed to the electorate; the instructions; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko, 1979 March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures for safeguarding the state interests of the USSR with respect to events in Afghanistan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko, IU. Andropov, D. Ustinov, and B. Ponomarev, 1980 January

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving transmission of information on the Soviet position toward the international situation (re arms race, NATO expansion, ratification of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty - SALT-2) to W. Brandt and K. Sorsa, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to West Germany; attachment with identical material for K. Sorsa, 1980 February

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving Soviet foreign policy toward Afghanistan and response to the appeal of F. Castro; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko, IU. Andropov, D. Ustinov, B. Ponomarev, and O. Rakhmanin re political settlement of relations between Afghanistan and neighboring countries and Castro's proposals to mediate in the settlement process; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Cuba (a copy of the instructions to be sent to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan); instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan (a copy to be sent to the Soviet ambassador to Cuba), 1980 March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures to encourage the international community to strongly oppose American actions in the Persian Gulf; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen; list of the measures, 1980 March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re opposition to US military expansion in the countries of the Near and Middle East and the Indian Ocean; instructions to Soviet ambassadors in Middle Eastern and Near Eastern countries, with information to be passed on to the ministers of internal affairs of those countries (copies to be sent to the Soviet ambassadors to East Germany, Poland, Laos, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Mongolia, North Vietnam, Romania, Yugoslavia, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Australia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Somalia, Kenya, Burma, and Tunisia, and to the Soviet representative [to the UN?] in New York); instructions to the Soviet ambassadors to Somalia and Kenya; instructions to the Soviet ambassadors to Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, West Germany, Belgium, the United States, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Spain, Cyprus, Norway, Canada, France, Iceland, Italy, Sweden, and Finland, and to the Soviet representatives [to the UN?] in New York and Geneva; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko, IU. Andropov, and D. Ustinov, 1980 April

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving proposals for political settlement of the situation in Afghanistan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko,IU. Andropov, D. Ustinov, and B. Ponomarev; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan re his meeting with B. Karmal; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Cuba re his meeting with F. Castro, 1980 May

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving draft instructions to Soviet ambassadors in the developing countries re measures to reveal the pro-imperialist policy of China; the instructions (copies to be sent to the Soviet ambassadors to West Germany, the United States, Great Britain, France, and China and to Soviet representatives in Vienna, Geneva, New York, and Paris), 1980 May

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving draft instructions to the Soviet ambassadors and representatives re measures to oppose US-China military cooperation; the draft instructions to all Soviet ambassadors and representatives, 1980 October

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a joint draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers re measures for ensuring protection and rational use of the water resources of Lake Baikal in 1987-1995; the draft resolution, with amendments; list of districts of the Buriat Autonomous Republic and Irkutskaia and Chitinskaia oblasts located in the area with secured water resources; assignment for constructing, reconstructing, and increasing the number of structures and equipment for purification of sewage water and of poisonous exhausts into the atmosphere, and other measures preventing pollution of the environment in the Baikal area; assignments to the Ministry of Chemical Industry and the Ministry of Power Machine Building Industry to develop, manufacture, and supply the Ministry of Timber and Paper Industry with equipment required to reduce poisonous exhausts into the atmosphere by the Baikal Integrated Pulp and Paper Mill and by the Selenginsk Integrated Pulp and Cardboard Mill; list of automobiles and other equipment to be allocated to the State Committee for Forestry (Goskomles) to provide monitoring from the air of both forests and fire-chemical stations located in the Baikal regions designated as having secured water protection; list of institutions and officials the resolution should be sent to; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov, 1987 March-April

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on a memorandum from the KPSS committees of Sverdlovskaia, Cheliabinskaia, Orenburgskaia, and Kurganskaia oblasts re change of flow of some rivers in Sverdlovskaia oblast in order to establish a zone of guaranteed grain harvesting and to improve water supply to the industrial centers of the Ural economic district; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Karlov, Chief of the Agricultural Department; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IA. Riabov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Sverdlovskaia oblast (obkom), M. Voropaev, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Cheliabinskaia oblast (obkom), A. Kovalenko, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Orenburgskaia oblast (obkom), and F. Kniazev, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Kurganskaia oblast (obkom), 1976 June

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on a memorandum from the KPSS committees of Krasnodarskii and Stavropolskii krais and of Rostovskaia oblast re partial change of the flow of the Volga and the Don for the sake of the irrigation system in the Northern Caucasus; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Kruchina, Deputy Chief of the Agricultural Department; memorandum to L. Brezhnev from S. Medunov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Krasnodarskii krai (kraikom), V. Murakhovskii, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Stavropolskiii krai (kraikom), and I. Bondarenko, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Rostovskaia oblast (obkom); brief instructions to N. Kruchina from M. Gorbachev; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from M. Solomentsev, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers; brief directive to familiarize TsK KPSS secretaries with the documents; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Baibakov, Chairman of the State Committee for Planning (Gosplan), 1979 June-August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS (item 3 only) re protection of water resources from wastes of industrial enterprises in the Lake Ladoga area; two identical extracts from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, differently formatted, 1986 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on a memorandum from Uzbek scholars re diverting the flow of some Siberian rivers to Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Karlov, Chief of the Agricultural Department; memorandum to L. Brezhnev from Academicians A. Sadykov, President of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, S. Iuldashev, Vice President of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VASKhNIL), S. Kamalov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Kara-Kalpak branch of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, S. Ryzhov, Corresponding Member of VASKhNIL, K. Lapkin, Academician-Secretary of the Department of Philosophy, Law, and Economy of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, and others, 1980 February-March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re the article How Can We Help the Aral Sea? in Pravda (Truth) newspaper of February 4, 1975; photocopy of the article; statement of I. Makarov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, on providing the authors of the article with information about the measures taken to improve the situation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Yefremov, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology, 1975 February-April

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re memoranda from the Central Committee of the Uzbek Communist Party and the Uzbek Council of Ministers and from the KPSS Committee of Krasnodarskii krai requesting approval of change of the flow of Siberian and northern rivers to the southern regions of the country; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Karlov, Chief of the Agricultural Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from SH. Rashidov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Uzbek Communist Party, N. Khudaiberdyev, Chairman of the Uzbek Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Medunov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Krasnodarskii krai, 1975 February-March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re fulfillment of the resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers On Measures for Ensuring Protection and Rational Use of the Water Resources of Lake Baikal ; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Party Control Committee, the Department of Light and Food Industries, the Department of Chemical Industry, and the USSR People's Control Committee, 1979 August

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re reduction in lumbering in the Lake Baikal region on the territory of the Buriat Autonomous Republic designated as having secured water protection; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Modogoev, Secretary of the Buriat KPSS Committee (kraikom), and V. Saganov, Chairman of the Buriat Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Karlov, Chief of the Agricultural Department, and I. Dmitriev, Chief of the Construction Department, 1981 June-August

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re measures to improve air and water conditions in the area of the Iasnaia Poliana museum-estate [of the writer L. Tolstoi]; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Semenov, Deputy Chief of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, 1982 July

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat establishing a commission to work out proposals for protection of the Lake Baikal environment; list of the members of the commission, 1986 February

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re desirable change in modes of operation of the Baikal Integrated Pulp and Paper Mill and the Selenginsk Integrated Pulp and Cardboard Mill in to improve the Baikal environment, 1986 July

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re measures for protection and rational use of natural resources of the Lake Baikal area; resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Melnikov, Chief of the Construction Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Talyzin; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers; assignment for constructing, reconstructing, and increasing structures and equipment for purification of sewage water and of poisonous exhausts into the atmosphere, and other measures to prevent environmental pollution in the Lake Baikal area; 1988-1991 assignments to the Ministry of Chemical Industry and the Ministry of Power Machine Building Industry to develop, manufacture, and supply the Ministry of Timber and Paper Industry with equipment required to reduce poisonous exhausts into the atmosphere by the Baikal Integrated Pulp and Paper Mill and the Selenginsk Integrated Pulp and Cardboard Mill; list of automotive vehicles and other equipment to be allocated in 1988-1991 to the State Committee for Forestry (Goskomles) to provide monitoring from the air of both forests and fire-chemical stations in the Baikal areas designated as having secured water protection; list of authorities who approved the resolution, 1987 January

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re inadequate enforcement of the TsK KPSS resolution of January 19, 1984, On Collective Letters from the City of Kemerovo Residents re Air Pollution and Demand for Intensification of Works Designed to Improve the Air in Cities, 1987 March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re liability of officials guilty of neglecting the decisions adopted to preserve the environment in the Lake Baikal area; resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1987 May

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a memorandum from the TsK KPSS departments On the Ecological Situation in a Number of Areas and Industrial Centers of the Country ; the memorandum from the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, the Department of Chemical Industry, the Construction Department, and the Department of Organizational and Party Work, 1987 July

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re building a system for directing the purified sewage of the Baikal Integrated Pulp and Paper Mill to the Irkut River; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Sitnikov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Irkutskaia oblast; conclusion drawn by the working team for evaluation of the possible aftermath of directing sewage of the Baikal Integrated Pulp and Paper Mill to the Irkut River and the expediency of doing so, 1987 August-December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Semenov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Chemical Industry, re measures to improve air and water conditions in the area of the Iasnaia Poliana museum-estate [of the writer L. Tolstoi]; brief instruction to familiarize the TsK KPSS secretaries with the memorandum, 1983 January

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Karlov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Agriculture and Food Industry, and S. Shcherbakov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, re an article by F. Kuznetsov, Deputy of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet and writer, on diverting the flow of several northern rivers to the Volga basin, with a brief note to the TsK KPSS from S. Zasukhin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Agriculture and Food Industry, stating that the editor in chief of Pravda (Truth) newspaper was informed of the decision made on the issue; brief note to A. Aleksandrov, N. Baibakov, and N. Vasiliev from M. Gorbachev asking for their considerations re Kuznetsov's article; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from V. Afanasiev, Editor in Chief of Pravda, presenting the article; the article; three handwritten brief instructions to V. Karlov from M. Gorbachev; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Vasiliev, Minister of Reclamation and Water Economy; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Voronin, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Planning (Gosplan); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Aleksandrov, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1983 June-August

Resolution of the KPSS Committee and the Buriat Council of Ministers criticizing the design of the Zabaikalskii Apatite Plant; memorandum to the Bureau of the KPSS Committee of Buriatskaia oblast (obkom) from the Department of Industry and the Department of Science and Educational Institutions (both of the Buriat obkom); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Olshanskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Chemical Industry, 1984 December - 1985 January

Report to the TsK KPSS from IU. Litvintsev, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Tulskaia oblast (obkom), on measures to be taken to improve the environment in the area of the Iasnaia Poliana museum-estate [of L. Tolstoi], 1986 January

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), re measures taken by the Goskomgidromet to improve air quality in the area of the Iasnaia Poliana museum-estate [of L. Tolstoi], 1986 January

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Kolpakov, Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy, re measures facilitating protection of the environment in the area of the Iasnaia Poliana museum-estate [of L. Tolstoi]; list of measures to reduce poisonous exhaust into the air and water in the Iasnaia Poliana area, 1986 January

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), re measures by the Goskomgidromet to intensify control over air pollution and to protect air quality in the area of the Iasnaia Poliana museum-estate [of L. Tolstoi], 1986 January

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Talyzin, Chairman of the State Committee for Planning (Gosplan), re measures to ensure significant reduction in poisonous exhaust in the area of the Iasnaia Poliana museum-estate [of L. Tolstoi]; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Afonin, Chief of the Department of Chemical Industry, 1986 February

Cover letter to the TsK secretaries and D. Yazov, V. Ivashko, and I. Polozkov submitting a report on the unfavorable radioactive environment in the area of Lake Ladoga; brief instructions; report to President M. Gorbachev from V. Kriuchkov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), 1990 August-September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a memorandum of March 13, 1978, from the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia (K. Demirchian) re protection and rational use of the natural resources of Lake Sevan, with the voting record of TsK secretaries; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to L. Brezhnev from K. Demirchian, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia, 1978 March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re the TsK KPSS resolution On Inadequate Implementation of the TsK KPSS Resolution of January 19, 1984, On Collective Letters from the City of Kemerovo Residents re Air Pollution and Demand for Intensification of Works Designed to Improve the Air in Cities, 1989 March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re restoration of the ecological balance in the area of the Aral Sea; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Socio-Economic Department, 1989 November

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from O. Shenin and A. V. Vlasov re a memorandum on ecological problems submitted to President M. Gorbachev by V. Reviakin, Chairman of the Committee (of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet) for Environment and Rational Use of Natural Resources; list of members of the working team for preparation of the materials to be submitted to the TsK KPSS Commission, formed to discuss the State Program for Environmental Protection and Rational Use of Natural Resources and to develop the chapter on ecology of the KPSS Draft Program; memorandum to V. Ivashko, Deputy General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from V. Reviakin; brief handwritten note; brief note to V. S. Pavlov and O. Shenin from M. Gorbachev; memorandum to M. Gorbachev from V. Reviakin, 1991 February-May

Brief note to V. Frolov and V. Bushuev from D. Ustinov; brief note to V. Dymshits and N. Tikhonov from D. Ustinov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. A. Smirnov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belorussia, re insufficient supply of equipment for the Polotsk Chemical Complex, 1973 July-August

Brief instruction to V. Bushuev from D. Ustinov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. A. Smirnov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belorussia, re setting into operation a unit for manufacturing ethylene and propylene at the Polotsk Chemical Complex; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Bushuev, Chief of the Department of Chemical Industry, 1974 January and May

Brief instruction to N. Baibakov, V. Dymshits, L. Kostandov, and V. Bushuev from D. Ustinov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. A. Smirnov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belorussia, re inadequate supply of raw materials to chemical enterprises in Belorussia; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Bushuev, Chief of the Department of Chemical Industry, 1974 August

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Sadykov, President of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, S. Ryzhov, Vice President of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences and Corresponding Member of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VASKhNIL), K. Lapkin, Academician-Secretary of the Department of Philosophy, Law, and Economy of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, S. Kamalov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Kara-Kalpak branch of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, and B. Korzhavin, Corresponding Member of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, requesting acceleration in diverting the flow of some Siberian rivers to Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan, 1980 January

Memorandum to L. Brezhnev from N. Kamalov, Secretary of the Kara-Kalpak obkom of the Uzbek Communist Party, and E. Aitmuratov, Chairman of the Kara-Kalpak Council of Ministers, re diverting the flow of some Siberian rivers to Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan, 1980 November

Memorandum to L. Brezhnev from S. Ziiadullaev, Chairman of the Council for the Study of Productive Forces, B. Korzhavin, Corresponding Member of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, A. Pugachev, Honored Irrigator of Uzbekistan, and A. Bostanzhoglo, Honored Irrigator of Uzbekistan, re diverting the flow of some Siberian rivers to Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan, 1981 January

Two brief handwritten notes; brief note to N. Talyzin, V. Dolgikh, V. Nikonov, and V. Murakhovskii from IE. Ligachev; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Usmankhodzhaev, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Uzbek Communist Party, K. Makhkamov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tadzhikistan, and O. Niiazov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan, re urgent problems of water supply to Soviet Central Asia; table of basic work required for each year to accelerate the construction of Rogun Hydroelectric Power Station; table of capital investments required for each year for the same construction; table of the required building devices, auto vehicles, and other equipment for the same construction; brief instructions to B. Shcherbina, A. Reut, N. Vasiliev, A. Maiorets, I. Yastrebov, and V. Karlov from V. Dolgikh; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, and V. Karlov, Chief of the Department of Agriculture and Food Industry; brief note from V. Sharkov re E. Ligachev's request; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Talyzin, V. Dolgikh, V. Nikonov, and V. Murakhovskii, with a statement from I. Kapustian, 1986 June-September

Brief instruction to N. Talyzin, V. Gusev, and V. Afonin from L. Zaikov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Reut, Deputy Chief of the State Committee for Planning (Gosplan), and A. Kochetkov, First Deputy Minister for the Manufacture of Mineral Fertilizers, re assembling a unit for carbamide production at the Azot Association in the city of Kemerovo; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Gusev; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Afonin, Chief of the Department of Chemical Industry; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Yermakov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Kemerovskaia oblast (obkom), requesting the exclusion of carbamide production from the work of the Azot Association because it would worsen the ecological situation in the city, 1986 June-October 1987 March

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Yermakov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Kemerovskaia oblast (obkom), re measures to protect the environment in the city of Kemerovo; instructions to G. Razumovskii, V. Afonin, and I. Yastrebov from IE. Ligachev; brief instructions to G. Kabasin and S. Karnaukhov from G. Razumovskii; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Koval, Deputy Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Department of Organizational and Party Work (G. Kharchenko), the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering (I. Yastrebov), and the Department of Chemical Industry (V. Afonin), 1986 October 1987 January 1987 March 1987 June

Documented report to the TsK KPSS from V. Martynov, Senior Consultant of the Historical-Diplomatic Directorate (IDU) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, re the incident of a South Korean plane brought down by Soviet air defense troops, after, 1983 September

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Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Zasukhin, Deputy Chief of the Agricultural Department, re diverting the flow of some northern and Siberian rivers to southern regions of the country; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), re comments and amendments submitted by delegates to the 26th KPSS Congress re redistribution of water resources; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Izrael re research on diverting the flow ofsome northern and Siberian rivers to southern regions of the country, 1981 August-September

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re development of irrigated agriculture in the Northern Caucasus; memorandum to L. Brezhnev from V. Vorotnikov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Krasnodarskii krai, V. Murakhovskii, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Stavropolskii krai, L. Kulichenko, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Volgogradskaia oblast, and I. Bondarenko, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Rostovskaia oblast; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Karlov, Chief of the Agricultural Department, re building the Volga-Don and the Rostov-Krasnodar canals to facilitate irrigation in the Northern Caucasus, 1982 October

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a memorandum from the Central Committee of the Uzbek Communist Party and the Uzbek Council of Ministers about the water level in the basins of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers; the memorandum from SH. Rashidov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Uzbek Communist Party, and N. Khudaiberdyev, Chairman of the Uzbek Council of Ministers, 1982 October-November

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re works to be undertaken in 1983 with regard to insufficient water supply to the republics of Soviet Central Asia and to Kazakhstan; the draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers; table reflecting the increase of state capital investment to balance insufficient water supply and of capital assets to be attracted in 1983, 1982 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a memorandum from IU. Andropov about the development of a long-term program of soil reclamation; the memorandum from IU. Andropov; memorandum to IU. Andropov, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from V. Mesiats, Minister of Agriculture, N. Vasiliev, Minister of Reclamation and Water Economy, and A. Nikonov, First Vice President of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VASKhNIL), 1983 September

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re measures to be taken to supply the textile industry with cotton fiber in 1984; the draft resolution; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Tikhonov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1984 January

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Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a memorandum to M. Gorbachev from A. Yanshin, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, V. Kovda, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and V. Tikhonov, Academician of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VASKhNIL); the memorandum denouncing state reclamation programs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Nikonov and Z. Nuriev, 1985 July-August

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet); the memorandum re the unfavorable ecological situation in the country owing to a high level of environmental pollution, 1986 February-March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the conclusions of a memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Talyzin and V. Murakhovskii re soil reclamation; the memorandum; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Vorotnikov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, re redistribution of the water resources of the northern rivers to the Volga basin; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Nikonov and V. Karlov, 1985 December - 1986 April

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers re change in the flow of some northern and Siberian rivers; the draft resolution; memorandum to A. Gromyko, Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, from S. Mikhalkov and IU. Bondarev [writers], Deputies of the USSR Supreme Soviet and Heroes of Socialist Labor, with sharp criticism of the project of changing the flow of northern and Siberian rivers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov, 1986 June-August

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re severe shortcomings in cotton cultivation in Uzbekistan, 1987 August

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Nikonov and V. Murakhovskii re severe shortcomings in the measures taken to prevent pollution of natural water reservoirs and to preserve their biological resources; memorandum to M. Gorbachev from the Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences D. Pavlov, L. Sushchenia, and A. Yablokov, 1988 March 1988 August

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re construction issues, restoration of V. Molotov to membership in the KPSS, and criticism of N. Khrushchev, 1984 July

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re death and funeral of K. Chernenko, election of the TsK KPSS General Secretary, and convocation of the TsK KPSS Plenum, 1985 March

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of the conference held in the TsK KPSS in the State Plans for Economic and Social Development of the USSR for 1986 and through the 12th Five-Year Plan, 1985 August

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re international relations (Afghanistan, East Germany, and Yemen), re renaming the ice breaker L. Brezhnev, and re a letter from S. Allilueva, 1986 March

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re cooperation with socialist countries, re the Congress of Writers and election of the leadership of the Union of Soviet Writers, and re heart transplants in the Soviet Union, 1986 June

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a trip of M. Gorbachev to Krasnodarskii and Stavropolskii krais, and re gradual release of prisoners detained for political activity, 1986 September

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re Soviet countermeasures to the expulsion of Soviet officials from the United States and measures in connection with the death of S. Machel, President of Mozambique, 1986 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re spreading of foreign videos (hostile to the Soviet state or pornographic) in the Soviet Union; brief instruction requesting familiarizing the TsK secretaries with the memorandum, 1982 April

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re transferring to the museums of the Kremlin works of art confiscated from foreign and Soviet citizens during customs clearance, 1982 February

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, with information about employees of educational institutions who had been penalized for their previous anti-Soviet activity, collaboration with the Hitler regime, or participation in nationalistic groups, 1970 May

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re hostile activity of the Group for Assistance in Implementation of the Helsinki Treaty in the USSR, 1976 November

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re evaluation by the US Embassy in the Soviet Union of speeches of representatives of European communist parties at the 25th Congress of the KPSS, 1976 March

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, analyzing conclusions made by a group of American experts from the US Embassy on American propaganda activity in the Soviet Union, 1976 July

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re gathering of secret information about the Councilon Mutual Economic Assistance by intelligence services of Western countries, 1976 September

Memorandum to M. Suslov from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re foreign citizens bringing into the Soviet Union pornographic literature and illustrated magazines, 1970 February

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re prosecution by the KGB of a group of foreign citizens charged with smuggling gold and other valuables and with profiteering, 1970 June

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the intention of the writer V. Voinovich to establish in Moscow a branch of PEN (International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists), 1975 April

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, and R. Rudenko, USSR Prosecutor General, re the prosecution of A. Tverdokhlebov, one of the founders of the Human Rights Committee and of the Soviet Section of Amnesty International, for his activity discrediting the Soviet state and social system, 1975 April

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, listing anti-Soviet actions during the May Day celebration, 1975 May

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re attempts of some extremists to inspire Soviet citizens of German origin to abstain from participating in the elections to republican supreme soviets and to local soviets, and re other anti-Soviet activity of those extremists, 1975 June

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re a meeting of "anti-social elements" silently protesting violations of human rights in the Soviet Union (held in Pushkin Square in Moscow), 1975 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re documents from the archives of Academician T. Lysenko (some of them with Stalin's annotations), 1976 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the artist I. Glazunov and the attitude toward him of the artistic community in the Soviet Union and abroad, 1976 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the anti-Soviet group of students called The Youngest Organization of Geniuses (Samaia molodaia organizatsiia geniev - SMOG), 1970 June

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re responses of foreign diplomats and of guests who visited Moscow on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Lenins birth to the speech delivered by L. Brezhnev in honor of the anniversary, 1970 April

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, with information about talks between officials of the US Department of State and the Foreign Office of Great Britain (held in London, October-November 1970) that shaped mutual policy on the limitation of Soviet and Chinese military and political influence in the Indian Ocean, 1970 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re attempts of a coalition of rightist parties in Finland to isolate politically the Finnish Communist Party, 1970 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re exposure of a Zionist organization in Leningrad and of its leadership, activity, and aims, 1970 April

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, accompanying a typed text of the parody (presumably composed by Z. Papernyi) of the novel Chego zhe ty khochesh? (What Do You Want?) by Kochetov; the parody, 1970 April

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, accompanying a copy of a letter to A. Tvardovskii from A. Solzhenitsyn; the letter containing information re the novel August of 1914, just finished by Solzhenitsyn, 1970 July

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the reaction of Soviet writers to the 3rd Congress of Writers of the Russian Federation, 1970 April

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the frame of mind of the poet A. Tvardovskii, 1970 September

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re exposure in the city of Tuapse (Krasnodarskii krai) of the anti-Soviet underground Club of Struggle for Democracy (Klub borby za democratiiu) and re proposed punishments of its members, 1970 March

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re politically harmful anti-Soviet actions during the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth, 1970 April

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re exposure in Sverdlovskaia oblast of an antiSoviet underground youth group that called itself the Party of Free Russia or Revolutionary Workers' Party, and re criminal prosecution of its members, 1970 June

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re distribution in the city of Riazan of seven handwritten leaflets by high school students, 1970 August

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re possible political and military consequences of the development of precise tactical weapons and their deployment by NATO, 1975 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a telegram to be sent to the Soviet ambassador to Norway; the telegram with information to be passed on to R. Steen, Chairman of the Norwegian Labor Party (NLP), and I. Leveraas, General Secretary of the NLP, questioning the fair investigation and court trial of Professor IU. Orlov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, presenting the telegram from R. Steen and I. Leveraas; the telegram (translated into Russian); the telegram in English, 1978 May 1978 June 1978 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving proposals of the Committee for State Security (KGB) re I. Korchnaia and I. Korchnoi [wife and son of the chess player V. Korchnoi]; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, objecting to the departure of family members of the defector Korchnoi; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov re anti-social actions of family members of the defector Korchnoi, 1978 June 1978 October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the text of a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Belgium and the text of a memorandum to the Central Committee of the Belgian Communist Party (BCP), with the voting record of TsK secretaries; the telegram with instructions to the Soviet ambassador re the statement of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the BCP on the investigation and court trial of IU. Orlov; excepts from the articles in the newspapers Pravda (Truth) of May 23, 1978, Izvestiia (News) of May 22, 1978, Vecherniaia Moskva (Evening Moscow) of May 18, 1978, and Moskovskaia pravda (Moscow Truth) of May 19, 1978; memorandum to the TsK KPSS (from unidentified author) re a statement made by the Central Committee of the BCP denouncing the indictment brought against IU. Orlov, 1978 May

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re measures to oppose the anti-Soviet campaign waged in Italy; instructions tothe Soviet ambassador to Italy re possible anti-Soviet demonstrations in Italy (to be passed on to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy); instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Italy re possible anti-Soviet demonstrations in Italy (to be passed on to the leadership of the Italian Communist Party); instructions to the Soviet ambassadors to Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Cuba; list of information and propaganda measures to oppose anti-Soviet actions in Italy; memorandum to the TsK KPSS (from unidentified authors), 1977 September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a response to E. Berlinguer, General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party; the response (to the letter from E. Berlinguer of August 6, 1976) re formal charges brought against V. Bukovskii [human rights activist]; copy of the extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents to be sent to the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1976 August

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Medvedev, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, re an open letter sent by members of the French Academy of Sciences to A. Aleksandrov, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, concerned with the fate of Soviet scholars charged with criminal activities or expelled from the USSR and with the fate of Soviet citizens not allowed to leave the USSR ("otkazniki"), and re Soviet policy toward the letter; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to France advising him to continue propaganda work with French scholars; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Aleksandrov; appeal to A. Aleksandrov signed by 65 members and 53 corresponding members of the French Academy of Sciences, 1985 September

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, re an appeal to IU. Andropov from US congressmen with a list of Soviet Jews (more than 2,000) not allowed to leave the Soviet Union; brief statement from D. Muraviev, Adviser of the International Department, with his brief summary of the appeal; the appeal in English, signed by 376 US congressmen; six brief notes from TsK officers related to the issue, 1983 June-July

Appeal (translated into Russian) to IU. Andropov from B. Kreisky, Chairman of the Socialist Party of Austria, requesting that IU. Orlov [Soviet human rights activist] imprisoned since 1977, be pardoned; the same appeal in German; three brief notes, 1983 July-August

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re a demonstration scheduled by members of the Democracy and Humanity seminar, names of the participants, and their slogans and objectives, 1987 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Romanov, Chief of the Main Directorate for Safeguarding State Secrets in the Press (Glavlit), re scheduled publication in Iunost (Youth) magazine of a poem by IE. Yevtushenko, containing ideologically incorrect statements distorting Soviet reality, with Romamov's brief handwritten note addressing the poem to M. Zimianin personally; brief handwritten note to the Propaganda Department from an unidentified author; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Sevruk, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and A. A. Beliaev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Culture, re follow-up measures concerning the publication of the poem, 1977 May

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re anti-Soviet statements and propaganda spread abroad by the writer S. Iurienen (defected to France), 1978 July

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Romanov, Chief of the Main Directorate for Safeguarding State Secrets in the Press, re the anti-Soviet campaign waged by the Western press with regard to the publication abroad of the essay Progress, Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom by Academician A. Sakharov, 1969 March

Article No. 526 from the TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) official bulletin of foreign information re publication in a Dutch newspaper of the article Cry from the Soul of a Russian Scholar by Academician A. Sakharov; article No. 526 from the TASS official bulletin of foreign information re publications in the New York Times related to Sakharov's article, with a summary of Sakharov's article, comments to the article, and some personal data of Sakharov; brief handwritten instruction, 1968 July-August

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Romanov, Chief of the Main Directorate for Safeguarding State Secrets in the Press (Glavlit), re detained foreign mail addressed to Academician A. Sakharov with a letter from R. Hutson(?), Editor in Chief of Problems of War and Peace magazine, where Sakharov's article For a Universal Political Party was published; the letter (translated into Russian) to Sakharov from Hutson; excerpts (translated into Russian) from the article in Time magazine (New York) about Sakharov's essay Progress, Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom ; editorial (translated into Russian) from Problems of War and Peace magazine, 1968 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a review of A. Sakharov's book; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and A. N. Yakovlev, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, requesting permission to reprint a shortened version of the review of the Sakharov essay Progress, Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom from Political Affairs magazine (edited by the Communist Party USA) in Soviet Literaturnaia gazeta (Literary Newspaper); brief instructions, 1972 March-April

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from B. Petrovskii, Minister of Health, to a telegram from Academician A. Sakharov; the telegram re compulsory treatment of political prisoners with medications hazardous to human intelligence at the Leningrad Psychiatric Prison; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Petrovskii denouncing Sakharov's allegations; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Baltiiskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, 1971 March 1971 June

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Shchelokov, Minister of Internal Affairs, re the attempt of a group of Soviet citizens of Jewish origin (A. Sakharov among them) gathered at the Dutch Embassy in the Soviet Union to express sympathy for the athletes from Israel murdered in Munich Olympic Village and the attempt by the same group gathered at the Lebanese Embassy to protest against the incident, 1972 September

Cover letter from P. Abrasimov, Soviet Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic, to the text of an interview (translated into Russian) given by Academician A. Sakharov on television in the Federal Republic of Germany and obtained by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany as a result of radio surveillance; the text of the interview, 1975 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), requesting approval of the publication in Krokodil (Crocodile) magazine of a satirical essay about Solzhenitsyn revealing his attachment to monarchy; statement from M. Gramov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, reporting that the essay was published on March 17, 1976, 1976 February-March

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the anti-Soviet campaign waged in the West against the "Soviet use of psychiatry for political aims"; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Burenkov, Deputy Minister of Health, re proposed measures to oppose the campaign; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and M. Nenashev, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Zhukov, People's Deputy of the USSR Supreme Soviet, re information supplied to him by A. Fernandez da Fonseca, Deputy of the Portuguese Parliament, about possible attempts by American scholars to denounce the USSR for implementation of psychiatry to suppress dissidents at the World Congress of Psychiatrists in Honolulu in 1977, with a cover letter to the TsK KPSS from V. Ruben, Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities of the USSR Supreme Soviet; memorandum to A. Shitikov (USSR Supreme Soviet) from IU. Zhukov (identical to the one addressed to the TsK KPSS);memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Petrovskii, Minister of Health, re the proposal of A. F. da Fonseca to distribute information favorable to Soviet psychiatry; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Shcherbakov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, 1976 September-December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions for 1958 ($7,128,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1958 and establishing the trust for 1959, with indication of the contribution to be made by each participating party; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1958 (totaling $6,968,000), 1958 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ($9,268,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1959; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS indicating the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1960; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1959 (totaling $8,759,700), 1959 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ($9,848,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1960 and establishing the trust for 1961; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS indicating the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1961; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1960 (totaling $9,639,000), 1960 November

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ($10,640,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1961 and establishing the trust for 1962; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1961 (totaling $10,440,100), 1961 November

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ($11,795,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1962 and establishing the trust for 1963; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS indicating the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1963; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1962 (totaling $11,998,670); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, naming communist and national-democratic parties that applied for assistance in 1963, with the amount of money to be granted to each party; resolution of the TsK KPSS re appropriations for assistance in 1963; table of parties that applied for assistance in 1963, with indication of the amount of money requested in 1963 and granted to each party in 1962 and 1963, 1963 January

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ($15,550,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1963 and establishing the trust for 1964; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS indicating the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1964; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1963, 1963 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ($15,750,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1964, and establishing the trust for 1965; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS indicating the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1965, 1964 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ($15,750,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1965 and establishing the trust for 1966; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS indicating the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1966; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1965 (totaling $15,721,000), 1965 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations ($15,750,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1966 and establishing the trust for 1967; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS indicating the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1967; report on the assistance granted to each of 69 communist or leftist parties and organizations in 1966, 1966 December

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1968 (totaling $16,550,000); memorandum to the TsK KPSS indicating the total amount of money raised for the trust ($16,650,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1967, 1967 December

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1969 (totaling $16,550,000); memorandum to the TsK KPSS re the total amount of money raised for the trust ($16,550,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1968, 1968 December

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1970 (totaling $16,550,000); memorandum to the TsK KPSS re amount of money raised for the trust and the contribution made by each participating party in 1969, with cover letter to L. Brezhnev proposing to reduce assistance to the Italian Communist Party; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1969, 1969 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and the contribution made by each participating party in 1970 (totaling $16,550,000) and establishing the trust for 1971; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1970 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions and setting the KPSS contribution and the contribution of each participating party for 1962 (totaling $11,050,000), 1961 November

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving an increase in the KPSS contribution to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions; memorandum to the TsK KPSS Presidium from M. Suslov, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, indicating the amount of money raised for the trust in 1953 and the amount of money required to meet requests for assistance from fraternal parties, 1953 May

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving an increase in the KPSS contribution to be deposited in the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions for 1953 and naming the parties that applied for assistance and the grants awarded to them, cautioning secrecy in transferring the grants; memorandum to the TsK KPSS Presidium from M. Suslov, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties; report on applications for assistance filed by each party, with indication of the amount of money requested, 1953 May

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1967 (totaling $16,550,000), 1967 January

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($2,900) and the contribution of each participating party for 1953 (totaling $5,000); secret letter to P. Iudin requesting that he visit Mao Zedong and pass on an oral message from the TsK KPSS re the trust; memorandum to the TsK KPSS Presidium (to G. Malenkov and N. Khrushchev) indicating the amount of money raised for the trust, the contribution of each participating party, and the assistance granted to each fraternal party in 1953, and establishing the trust for 1954, 1954 January

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium setting the KPSS contribution to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions for 1957 ($3,150,000), approving grants to the Belgian Communist Party, the People's Party of Iran, and the Communist Party of the Netherlands, and establishing the procedure for money transfer; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, indicating grants awarded to each fraternal party in 1956 (totaling $5,679,000) and establishing the trust and the contribution from each participating party for 1957, 1956 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1968 (totaling $16,550,000), 1967 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium requesting that the USSR State Bank (Gosbank) accept hard currency from the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties and pay the deposited money back at the request of the department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Stepanov, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, 1954 May

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo establishing the Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions (VTsSPS) and appointing K. Kuznetsova as Chair of the Board; cover letter to J. Stalin from V. Kuznetsov and V. Grigorian presenting a draft decree on establishing the Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations (not included); copy of the extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo (see above), 1950 January

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo re the resolution of July 19, 1950, On Establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to the Leftist Workers' Organizations Under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ; draft resolution indicating the amount of money to be raised and the contribution of each participating party, establishing the procedure for granting the assistance, and appointing the Trust Board; resolution of the TsK KPSS accompanied by a cover letter to J. Stalin from V. Grigorian, Chairman of the Commission for Foreign Political Affairs; memorandum to Stalin from Grigorian summarizing the negotiations concerning the Assistance Trust led by B. Ponomarev, Deputy Chairman of the Commission for Foreign Affairs, with the leaders of participating parties, 1950 June-August

Memorandum to J. Stalin from V. Grigorian, Chairman of the Commission for Foreign Political Affairs, indicating the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party in 1950, the contributions from each participating party, and additional requests for assistance and establishing the trust for 1951; extract from the meeting of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions, setting the KPSS contribution and the contribution of each participating party to the trust in 1951 (totaling ($1,500,000), and appointing the Trust Board for 1951, 1951 January-February

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, setting the KPSS contribution ($9,600,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1963 (totaling $14,650,000) and the grant awarded to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1963, 1963 January

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions, setting the VKP(b) share and the contribution from each participating party (totaling $2,500,000) for 1952, appointing the Trust Board, with V. Kuznetsov as TsK representative in the Board, sending B. Ponomarev and A. A. Smirnov on a business trip abroad, and approving a telegram to China; instructions to Roshchin (in Beijing) from A. Gromyko to meet with Mao Zedong and pass on to him an oral message re the Assistance Trust for 1952; memorandum to J. Stalin from V. Grigorian, Chairman of the Commission for Foreign Political Affairs, indicating the grant awarded by the trust to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1951, 1951 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organization, setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $16,550,000) in 1969, 1969 January

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions and the contribution from each participating party (totaling $5,000,000) for 1955; instructions to P. Iudin (in Beijing) to see Mao Zedong and pass on to him an oral message re the Assistance Trust for 1955; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Stepanov, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, indicating the contributions to the Assistance Trust from each participating party and the grants awarded to communist and leftist parties in 1954, 1955 February-March

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions and the contribution from each participating party (totaling $6,450,000) in 1957 and establishing the trust and shares of each participating party for 1958 (totaling $6,800,000); resolution of the TsK KPSS; report indicating the grant awarded to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1957; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium setting the KPSS contribution to the trust and the contribution of each participating party for 1958, 1957 October

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $16,550,000) in 1970, 1969 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($13,200,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $15,750,000) in 1965, 1965 January

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $16,550,000) in 1971, 1970 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo assigning the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties (B. Ponomarev) to inform the parties participating in the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions of the distribution of the trust funds in 1955 and to discuss with them the trust for 1956 and the expediency of increasing the trust for 1956, and setting the KPSS contribution in the 1956 trust; the text of the said conversation between Ponomarev and the leaders of the communist and workers' parties participating in the trust; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Ponomarev, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, proposing to establish the trust for 1956 ($5,500,000), to discuss the 1956 trust fund with the leaders of the participating parties during their visit to the 20th KPSS Congress, and to maintain secrecy in transferring grants, 1956 January-February

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($4,750,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $9,000,000) in 1959, and approving additional financial assistance to be granted to the Communist Party of Luxembourg, 1958 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, setting the KPSS contribution ($13,200,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $15,750,000) in 1966, 1966 January

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, setting the KPSS contribution ($4,750,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $9,050,000) in 1960, and approving financial assistance to the opposition faction within the Social Democratic Party of Finland, 1959 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, setting the KPSS contribution ($5,500,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $10,500,000) in 1961, 1960 November

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the amount of money invested in the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, the grants awarded to communist and leftist parties or organizations, and the contributions made by each participating party in 1971 (totaling $16,550,000) and proposals concerning the trust fund and the contributions of each participating party to be made in 1972 (totaling $16,550,000); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1971 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the amount of money invested in the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and the contributions made by each participating party in 1972 (totaling $16,550,000), and proposing the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust in 1973 (totaling $16,550,000); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1972 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposal from the International Department re an increase (as of 1974) in the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, in the KPSS contribution (to $15,000,000) and in contributions of participating parties; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contributions made to the trust by each participating party and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 69 parties and national-democratic organizations in 1973 (totaling $16,550,000) and proposing to establish the Assistance Trust for 1974 ($18,400,000); report on grants awarded to each of 69 parties and national-democratic organizations in 1973, 1973 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations by each participating party in 1974 (totaling $18,400,000) and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 76 parties and national-democratic organizations and establishing the trust fund and setting the contribution of each participating party to the trust to be made in 1975 (totaling $18,400,000); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1974 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations by each participating party in 1975 (totaling $18,400,000) and thetotal amount of money spent on assistance to 84 parties and national-democratic organizations, and proposing to establish the trust fund and to set the contribution of each participating party to the trust in 1976 (totaling $18,400,000); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1975 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations by each participating party in 1976 (totaling $18,400,000) and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 82 parties and national-democratic organizations, and proposing to establish the trust fund and to set the contribution of each participating party to the trust in 1977 (totaling $18,700,000); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1976 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations by each participating party in 1977 (totaling $18,700,000) and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 81 parties and national-democratic organizations, and proposing to establish the trust fund and to set the contribution of each participating party to the trust in 1978 at the level of the 1977 trust fund; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum; brief note stating that the Romanian Communist Party refused to pay its share in 1977, 1977 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations by each participating party in 1978 (totaling $18,700, 000) and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 76 parties and national-democratic organizations, and proposing to establish the trust fund and to set the contribution of each participating party to the trust in 1979 on the level of the 1978 trust fund; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1978 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations by each participating party in 1979 (totaling $18,700,000) and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 75 parties and national-democratic organizations and proposing to establish the trust fund and to set the contribution of each participating party to the trust in 1980 (totaling $19,000,000); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1979 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations by eachparticipating party in 1980 (totaling $19,000,000) and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 78 parties and national-democratic organizations, and proposing to establish the trust fund and to set the contribution of each participating party to the trust in 1981 (totaling $18,350,000); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1980 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the proposal of the International Department to establish the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and to set the KPSS contribution ($15,500,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1982 (totaling $18,350,000); resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made by each participating party to the trust in 1981 and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 76 parties and organizations, and proposing to establish the trust for 1982, 1981 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the proposal of the International Department to establish the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations ($18,350,000) and to set the KPSS contribution ($15,500,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1983; resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made by each participating party to the trust in 1982, the total amount of money spent on assistance to 80 parties and organizations, and proposing to establish the trust for 1983, 1982 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the proposal of the International Department to establish the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations (totaling $18,350,000), to set the KPSS contribution ($15,500,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1984; resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made by each participating party to the trust in 1983, the total amount of money spent on assistance to 81 parties and organizations, and proposing to establish the trust for 1984, 1983 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the proposal of the International Department to establish the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations ($18,350,000), to set the KPSS contribution ($15,500,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1985; resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made by each participating party to the trust in 1984 and proposing to establish the trust for 1985, 1984 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the proposal of the International Department to establish the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations ($20,350,000), to set the KPSS contribution ($17,000,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1986; resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made by each participating party to the trust in 1985, mentioning insistent requests from a number of parties to increase the assistance granted to them, and proposing to establish the trust for 1986, 1985 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the proposal of the International Department to establish the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations ($20,350,000), to set the KPSS contribution ($17,000,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1987; resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the International Department and assigning the department to develop new forms of financial assistance; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Dobrynin indicating the contribution made by each participating party to the trust in 1986 and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 79 parties and organizations, and proposing to establish the trust for 1987, 1987 February

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the proposal of the International Department to set the KPSS contribution to be invested to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations in artificial Soviet "hard" currency (invaliutnyi ruble); resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Dobrynin summarizing research of new methods of rendering financial assistance and proposing to set the KPSS contribution in artificial currency to keep pace with US dollar inflation, 1987 November

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the KPSS contribution to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations for 1989 (13,500,000 invaliutnyi rubles - artificial Soviet "hard" currency); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Falin describing all forms of assistance granted to fraternal parties and proposing to establish the Assistance Trust for 1989, 1988 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations for 1989 ($22,000,000); resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Falin, Chief of the International Department, re refusal of the communist parties of socialist countries to participate in the Assistance Trust, and the necessity of financing the trust solely by the KPSS, and establishing the trust for 1990 ($22,000,000), 1989 December

Stenographic record of talks of L. Brezhnev, A. Kosygin, and N. Podgornyi with L. Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia, and also with Klusák, G. Husák, and V. Bilák considering possible ways of declaring the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (CPC) and its decisions unlawful, ways of overcoming the political crisis, and measures to oppose anti-Soviet and anti-Communist forces in Czechoslovakia; stenographic record of the talks between L. Brezhnev, A. Kosygin, and N. Podgornyi with A. DubČek and I. Cerník about the situation in Czechoslovakia and in the CPC and possible ways of declaring the 14th Congress of the CPC and its decisions unlawful, 1968 August 23

Stenographic record of talks of L. Brezhnev, A. Kosygin, and N. Podgornyi with J. Smrkovský, J. Spacek, and B. Simon re normalization of the internal political situation in Czechoslovakia and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (CPC) and possible ways of declaring the 14th Congress of the CPC and its decisions unlawful, 1968 August 24

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a statement to be issued by the TsK KPSS Politburo for TsK KPSS members, candidate members, members of the Central Control Commission (TsKK KPSS), secretaries of communist parties of union republics, and first secretaries of KPSS committees in krais and oblasts re the decision to bring troops of the USSR, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, and Poland into Czechoslovakia; the statement, 1968 August 19

Stenographic record of a conference of delegations of the KPSS and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia re adoption of a Protocol and a Soviet-Czech Declaration as a result of a discussion on normalization of the situation in Czechoslovakia; corrected text of Brezhnev's speech at the conference; the protocol, 1968 August 26

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving draft instructions to V. Kuznetsov and S. Chervonenko [at the Soviet Embassy in Czechoslovakia]; the draft instructions containing comments, corrections, and amendments to the draft resolution to be adopted at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 1968 November

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS Politburo and L. Brezhnev from A. A. Dubcek requesting a stop to the activity of the Vltava radio station located outside Czechoslovakia and of Sprava newspaper published by the editorial board of the Warsaw Treaty Powers, and requesting changes in comments and judgments pertaining to Czechoslovakia made in the press of the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria, 1968 November

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a draft memorandum on the International Security Organization and draft directives to the Soviet delegation at the conference on establishing the International Security Organization; the said draft memorandum; the draft directives, 1944 August

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving directives to the Soviet delegation appointed for participation in the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations; the directives, 1945 November

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving draft directives to the Soviet delegation to the 1st Session of the United Nations General Assembly; the draft directives, 1946 January

Ciphered telegram to V. Molotov from A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) re Soviet amendments to the Declaration on Human Rights to be adopted by the UN, 1948 December

Ciphered telegram to V. Molotov from A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) requesting Molotov's instructions re a draft statement of the Soviet delegation to be released at the conference of the UN 3rd Committee re the Declaration on Human Rights with respect to Soviet policy on issues pertaining to freedom of information, refugees, and a complaint by Chile, 1948 December

Ciphered telegram from V. Molotov to A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) requesting that the Soviet delegation abstain from voting on the Declaration on Human Rights at the conference of the UN 3rd Committee, 1948 December

Ciphered telegram to V. Molotov from A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) proposing that the Soviet delegation try to postpone the adoption of the Declaration on Human Rights until the next session of the UN General Assembly or offer Soviet amendments to the Declaration, and that in case the amendments should not be accepted the Soviet delegation abstain from voting on grounds of the Declaration's false principles, 1948 November

Ciphered telegram to V. Molotov from A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) urgently requesting instructions from Molotov re policy of the Soviet delegation toward adoption of the Declaration on Human Rights at the Plenum of the UN General Assembly, 1948 December

Ciphered telegram from V. Molotov to A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) requesting that the Soviet delegation try to postpone the adoption of the Declaration on Human Rights until the next UN General Assembly (on grounds that the text of the declaration was unsatisfactory), then propose Soviet amendments to the text of the declaration, and if the amendments should be rejected, the Soviet delegation should abstain from voting, 1948 December

Ciphered telegram from V. Molotov to A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) with the text of Soviet amendments to articles of the Declaration on Human Rights to be proposed by the Soviet delegation, 1948 December

Ciphered telegram to V. Molotov from A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) proposing that the Soviet delegation drag out the adoption process of the Declaration on Human Rights in order to upset discussion of the Korean problem at the UN General Assembly, 1948 December

Ciphered telegram to V. Molotov from A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) reporting that the Declaration on Human Rights has been adopted at the UN General Assembly, that the Soviet amendments to its draft have been rejected as well as the Soviet proposal to postpone the adoption of the declaration until the 4th Session of the General Assembly, 1948 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on measures to stimulate public actions against the NATO decision to manufacture and place new American missiles in Western Europe, with the voting record of TsK KPSS secretaries; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents sent to the Politburo, 1980 April

Two resolutions (differently formatted, with different issuing dates, one with the voting record of TsK KPSS secretaries) of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving measures to attract foreign national Olympic committees to participate in the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; draft list of the measures (with handwritten corrections); information for Soviet ambassadors and representatives (with handwritten amendments) re refusal of a number of countries to participate in the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Northern Ireland re his meeting with M. Killanin, President of the International Olympic Committee (with handwritten amendments); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a distribution list; final version of the list of measures; final version of the instructions to Soviet ambassadors and representatives; two memoranda to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of International Information, differently formatted; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Novikov, Chairman of the Olimpiada-80 Organizational Committee, proposing to withdraw some Soviet troops from Afghanistan in order to attract more national Olympic committees to participate in the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; additional list of the measures; proposed information to be sent to Soviet ambassadors; original version of the list of measures, 1980 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re production of and artistic assistance to the Granada television company (Great Britain) to produce a series of documentaries on the history of Soviet cinematography, with the voting record of TsK KPSS secretaries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture, and A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Yermash, Chairman of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on the measures to be taken with regard to the visit of A.-M. M'Bow, General Director of UNESCO, to the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Zemskov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Commission for UNESCO, 1980 June

Resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a draft decree of the USSR Council of Ministers re the procedure for considering appeals of some countries pertaining to the visit of their delegations to the 22nd Olympic Summer Games; the draft decree; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, re the request of some national Olympic committees to pay with the national currency of their countries (not with hard currency as demanded) for the transportation and services afforded to their delegations during the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; information re the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS on spending Soviet rubles deposited in the account of the International Olympic Committee; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Novikov, Chairman of the Olimpiada-80 Organizing Committee; two different draft resolutions of the TsK KPSS; three draft decrees of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat (with handwritten and typewritten amendments), with the voting record of TsK secretaries, re intensification of information and propaganda addressed to Iran; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, P. Luchinskii, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, G. Smirnov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, re carrying out the resolution of the TsK KPSS On Intensification of Information and Propaganda Addressed to Iran, 1980 June-July 1981 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re administering and increasing the effectiveness of relations between Sovietcities and cities of capitalist and developing countries; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Pegov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Business Trips and Cadres Abroad; brief note re B. Ponomarev's request to discuss the issue at the meeting of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Z. Kruglova, Chairperson of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, 1980 March 1980 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving financial assistance to the Women's International Democratic Federation to secure participation of representatives from Asian and African women's organizations in the Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations in Copenhagen (July 14-24, 1980); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, Chairwoman of the Soviet Women's Committee, 1980 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re administering and improving relations between Soviet cities and cities of capitalist and developing countries; list of measures to be taken with regard to the resolution, 1980 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving relations between the KPSS and the Socialist Party of Japan in 1980, with the voting record of TsK secretaries; list of scheduled exchanges between delegations of the parties; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and P. Smolskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; brief statement by A. Senatorov reporting a reduction in the number of guests from Japan and in the duration of their stay in the Soviet Union, 1980 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK secretaries, awarding Lord M. Killanin, President of the International Olympic Committee, the Soviet Order of Friendship of Peoples for preparation and conduct of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents sent to the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1980 July

Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re change in status of the Secretariat of the Committee for State Security; two draft resolutions of the USSR Council of Ministers; resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB; brief handwritten note re General Department's support of Andropov's proposal; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1980 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a business trip of the Soviet Peace Committee delegation to the International Conference on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Japan; list of the delegates; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; four tables with each delegate's personal data; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, 1980 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK secretaries, re financial assistance to the Peoples for Peace World Parliament (Sofia, September 23-27, 1980); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from O. Kharkhardin, Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 July-August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK secretaries and handwritten amendments, summarizing the results of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents directed to the Politburo, 1980 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK secretaries, authorizing awarding Soviet orders and medals to 5,000 people for their service during the preparation and conduct of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; table depicting distribution of state awards among ministries and organizations; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents directed to the Politburo; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK secretaries authorizing awarding Soviet orders and medals to military and civilian personnel of the Ministry of Defense, the Committee for State Security (KGB), and the Ministry of Internal Affairs for their service in preparing and conducting the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents directed to the Politburo, 1980 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK secretaries, re information submitted by central committees of communist and workers' parties of socialist countries on the results of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; brief note directing materials to the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, andM. Gramov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the text of instructions to Soviet ambassadors; instructions to Soviet ambassadors, with information to be passed on to secretaries of central committee of fraternal parties, 1980 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK secretaries, authorizing award of Soviet orders and medals to citizens of the German Democratic Republic for fulfillment of special tasks; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents directed to the Politburo, 1979 November

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Workers' Party of Jamaica (WPJ) to admit two WPJ activists for training in clandestine work; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department; first page of an incomplete (unsigned) memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from the WJP, 1980 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from R. Arismendi, Secretary of the Communist Party of Uruguay (CPU), to admit two members of the CPU Central Committee for training in clandestine work (transportation, housing, food, and clothing to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the request from N. Kianuri, First Secretary of the People's Party of Iran (PPI), to admit three PPI members for training in clandestine work (training, transportation, housing, and food to be paid for by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from N. Kianuri, 1980 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers re introduction of additional positions in some institutions and organizations; voting record of TsK KPSS secretaries; draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers introducing additional positions (to be occupied by KGB officers) in a number of institutions and organizations; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; copy of the resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat (differently formatted); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), proposing the introduction of additional positions to be occupied by KGB officers; list of organizations and institutions that approved Andropov's proposal, 1980 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK KPSS secretaries, authorizing financial assistance to communist and progressive youth organizations in Latin America; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents,Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Pastukhov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Young Communists League (TsK VLKSM), 1980 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Communist Party of Argentina (CPA) to admit a CPA representative for training in party work (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 July-August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the exchange of 50,000 rubles for US dollars for the Administration of TsK KPSS Affairs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department, re a request from A. Muhammad, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party, to exchange 50,000 rubles (collected as membership fees from Iraqi students in the Soviet Union) for US dollars; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Muhammad, 1980 July-August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re engineering assistance to Benin in building an airfield; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents directed to the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1980 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Communist Party of El Salvador (CPES) to admit thirty communists from El Salvador for military training (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. J. Handal, Secretary General of the CPES, 1980 July-August

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS on the necessity of considering legal aspects of KPSS activity with respect to the results of the February 1990 Plenum of the TsK KPSS; voting record of the TsK KPSS secretaries; brief note addressing documents to the TsK secretaries for voting; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Kruchina, Administrator of the Administration of TsK KPSS Affairs, and A. S. Pavlov, Chief of the State and Legal Department; distribution list; copy of the first page of the memorandum from N. Kruchina and Pavlov; copy of the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1990 February-March

Decree of People's Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria on establishing special [concentration] camps for former servicemen of the Red Army who were taken prisoner by the enemy or stayed on in territories occupied by the enemy, 1941 December

Cover page of a file containing reports and surveys of Department "F" of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) pertaining to the repatriation of Soviet citizens in June-July 1944; survey of repatriation of Soviet citizens from territories liberated from German occupation by the Red Army as of August 1, 1945, signed by General F. Sudoplatov, Chief of Department "F"; table of data on repatriation of Soviet citizens from territories liberated from German occupation by the Red Army, signed by General Zapevalin, Deputy Chief of the Department "F", 1945 July

Cover page of a file containing documents pertaining to the transfer of authority over camps for inspection and filtering (proverochno-filtratsionnye lageria) from the Department for Inspection and Filtering Camps of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) to the Main Directorate for Camps (GULAG); act of transfer, 1946 January

Surveys Nos. 2-8 submitted to V. Chernyshev, Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, by the Administrator (Upolnomochennyi) of the Council of People's Commissars for Repatriation of Soviet Citizens presenting data on the number of foreign prisoners of war and Soviet citizens subject to repatriation as of October 31, 1944 (by country of citizenship), November 10, 19, 30, 1944 December 10, 20, 30, 1944

Cover page of a draft report on carrying out the decisions of the Soviet government re repatriation of Soviet and foreign citizens displaced during World War II, 1941-1945; chapter 9 of the report (survey of repatriation), 1946

Cover page of the report on scientific research Prognosis of Social and Economic Development of the Economy of Aral Sea Area Through the Years 2000-2020 ; chapter 2 of the report ("Essence of the Problem"); chapter 6 of the report ("Conclusions and Recommendations"), 1983 July

Cover page of the report General Scheme of Allocation of Productive Forces of the USSR Through the Year 2000 (Volume 1, General Economic and Social Problems of Allocation of Productive Forces - Main Principles ); extract from the report (eleven pages), 1983

Cover page of the report General Scheme of Allocation of Productive Forces of the USSR Through the Year 2000 ( Consolidated Report); extract from the report (two pages), 1984

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers and draft instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan; the directives of the USSR Council of Ministers re a request of Afghanistan to the Soviet government to pay part of the expenses of Soviet specialists assigned to the Armed Forces of Afghanistan; the instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan, 1979 January

Memorandum of a conversation between L. Brezhnev and N. M. Taraki [leader of the Khalq (Masses) wing of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan], with participation of A. Kosygin, A. Gromyko, D. Ustinov, and B. Ponomarev, re political, military, and economic cooperation between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan and re the negative answer of the Soviet leadership to multiple requests of the Afghan leadership to bring Soviet troops into Afghanistan, 1979 March 20

Memorandum of a conversation between A. Kosygin, A. Gromyko, D. Ustinov, and B. Ponomarev and N. M. Taraki re political and economic cooperation between the USSR and Afghanistan and re the negative answer of the Soviet leadership to multiple requests of the Afghan leadership to bring Soviet troops, tanks, and aviators into Afghanistan, 1979 March 20

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko, IU. Andropov, D. Ustinov, and B. Ponomarev re Soviet policy toward Afghanistan; the memorandum, 1979 April 1 1979 April 12

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Ministry of Defense of April 18, 1979 (about the inexpediency of participation of Soviet helicopter crews in the suppression of counterrevolutionary uprisings in Afghanistan), and approving instructions to the Soviet main military adviser in Afghanistan; the instructions, 1979 April 21

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers re additional military assistance and supply of 1,500 automobiles to Afghanistan and approving instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan re inexpediency of sending Soviet helicopters, transport planes, and airborne forces to Kabul; the instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan, 1979 May 24

Brief record of a meeting of the Commission of the TsK KPSS Politburo (L. Brezhnev, D. Ustinov, A. Gromyko, and K. Chernenko) held in a country house re execution of the decision to invade Afghanistan; handwritten resolution of the TsK KPSS, with the voting record of the TsK secretaries, On the Situation in "A" [Afghanistan]; two identical copies of the cover page of the file containing these documents, 1979 December 26

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re Soviet policy toward Afghanistan; instructions to the Soviet ambassadors to East Germany, Poland, Hungary, BulgariaCzechoslovakia, Cuba, and Mongolia; instructions to all Soviet ambassadors (except those mentioned above); instructions to the Soviet representative in the UN; TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) press release; congratulatory message to B. Karmal, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and Prime Minister of Afghanistan, upon his election as General Secretary of the PDPA Central Committee and to the top government posts; instructions to the media demanding propaganda support for Soviet actions in Afghanistan; memorandum to TsK KPSS members and candidate-members, TsKK (Central Control Commission) KPSS members, republican central committees, KPSS committees in krais (kraikoms) and oblasts (obkoms), the Moscow City KPSS Committee, the Leningrad City KPSS committee, and the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Armed Forces and Navy from the TsK KPSS; instructions from the TsK KPSS to Soviet ambassadors to non-socialist countries; list of the communist and workers' parties of non-socialist countries to which the TsK KPSS memorandum should be sent; two identical copies of the cover page of the file containing these documents, 1979 December 27

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the draft response of L. Brezhnev to President Carter's telephone appeal; draft text of the response, 1979 December 29

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, A. Gromyko, D. Ustinov, and B. Ponomarev re the December 27-28, 1979, events in Afghanistan, 1979 December 31

Digest of the conversation between A. Gromyko and SH. Dost, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, re the situation in Afghanistan and the forthcoming session of the UN Security Council on Afghanistan, 1980 January 4

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a procedure for assigning servicemen and civilian employees to the Soviet forces temporarily located in Afghanistan, 1980 January 23

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re negotiations for an agreement between the Soviet and Afghan governments on quartering Soviet troops in Afghanistan; the draft agreement; draft Protocol to the agreement; list of settlements and garrisons with houses and barracks, airfields and warehouses for Soviet troops temporarily quartered in Afghanistan, and of testing and firing fields to be shared with the Armed Forces of Afghanistan; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan, 1980 January 25

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures to be taken in anticipation of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E.Shevardnadze, V. Chebrikov, A. N. Yakovlev, D. Yazov, V. Murakhovskii, and V. Kriuchkov, 1989 January

Agenda of the June 23, 1980, session of the TsK KPSS Plenum re convocation of the 26th KPSS Congress (report presented by L. Brezhnev), the international situation, and foreign policy of the Soviet Union (report presented by A. Gromyko); stenographic record of the meeting; resolution of the TsK KPSS Plenum on convocation of the 26th KPSS Congress; resolution of the TsK KPSS Plenum on the international situation and the foreign policy of the Soviet Union, 1980 June

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of the Working Conference of the Leaders of Fraternal Parties of Socialist Countries of the Council on Mutual Economic Assistance, which took place in Moscow on November 10-11, 1986, and re measures to be taken to end the war in Afghanistan, 1986 November

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a list of the main issues scheduled for consideration by the TsK KPSS Politburo and Secretariat during the second half of 1987 with respect to the directives of the July 1987 Plenum of the TsK KPSS, re measures to carry out Soviet obligations under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Manufacture, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxic Weapons and on their Destruction [record is not available], re expansion of telephone communications with capitalist and developing countries, and re a request of Crimean Tatars for a meeting with M. Gorbachev, 1987 July

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures to be taken in connection with the events in Azerbaijan and Armenia (item 1 of the agenda) and re changes in the distribution of responsibilities among the TsK KPSS secretaries (item 7 of the agenda), 1988 February

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re urgent measures to be taken to settle the crisis in Azerbaijan and Armenia caused by the events in Nagornyi Karabakh, 1988 March

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of the 4th All-Union Congress of Collective Farmers, 1988 March

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a report to be presented by M. Gorbachev at the July 1988 Plenum of the TsK KPSS, re improvement in the procedure for making state awards, and transforming the Union-Republican Ministry of Fishing Industry into the All-Union Ministry of Fishing Industry, 1988 July

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re discussion of the memorandum by M. Gorbachev On Reorganization of the Party Apparatus and re reorganization of local party organs, 1988 September

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a draft of the report to be presented by M. Gorbachev at the November 1988 Plenum of the TsK KPSS, re measures opposing the activity of the Memorial Society, and re events in Armenia, 1988 November

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re world reaction to Gorbachev's proposals to the UN on disarmament, reduction in personnel of the Soviet Armed Forces, and withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern Europe put forward during his visit to the UN, re practical measures to be taken to reduce the Soviet Armed Forces and military budget, re the possibility of excusing students from mandatory military service (chapter 1), and addressing the aftermath of the earthquake in Armenia (chapter 2, incomplete), 1988 December

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo with the following agenda: I. On procedure for conducting the March 1990 Plenum of the TsK KPSS; II. On the resolution of the TsK KPSS Plenum On the Draft Law on Amendments to the USSR Constitution (Main Law) Regarding the Political System (Articles 6 and 7) ; III. On the resolution of the TsK KPSS about the convocation date for the 28th Congress of the KPSS, about the election campaign in the party, and about quotas and procedures for the election of delegates; IV. On a draft entitled Regulations for the Central Control Commission of the KPSS , 1990 March

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re elections to the 1st Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation and preparation for the Congress, and re policy toward the Demokraticheskaia platforma (Democratic Platform) KPSS faction, 1990 March

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo with the following agenda: I. Discussion of the form and content of the letter to be sent by the TsK KPSS to all communists in the country, convocation of the TsK KPSS Plenum, delimitation between the Demokraticheskaia platforma (Democratic Platform) faction and the KPSS in order to retain the integrity of the KPSS, and the situation in some local party organizations (Moscow, Leningrad, Ukraine, Baltic states); II. On establishing the Krestianskii Soiuz SSSR (Peasants' Union) (incomplete), 1990 Apri

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re preparation for the 28th Congress of the KPSS and the Russian Party Conference, 1990 May

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re violation of regulations on industrial supplies (incomplete), improvement in the structure of the TsK KPSS apparatus, and the political situation in Azerbaijan, 1990 September

Stenographic report of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re stabilization of the political and economic situation in the country, preservation of the leading role of the KPSS, reorganization and reform of the union power structures, signing of the Union Agreement, and proposals for the draft speech to be presented by President M. Gorbachev at the Session of the USSR Supreme Soviet, 1990 November

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo with the following agenda: I. On the draft report to be presented at the joint Plenum of the TsK and Central Control Commission (TsKK) of the KPSS On the Current Situation and Party Task ; II. On the draft report and resolutions of the Plenum On Preparation for the Registration of the KPSS Code and On Organizational and Political Strengthening of Party Organizations, 1991 January

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo with the following agenda: I. Approval of the draft report On the International Situation and Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union to be presented by A. Gromyko at the TsK KPSS Plenum and of the draft resolution adopted by the TsK KPSS on Gromyko's report; II. Approval of the draft decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet and draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers pertaining to the use of labor of pardoned or paroled criminals; III. Gifts to be made to Chancellor H. Schmidt and other members of the German delegation; IV. Excessive commercial construction in Moscow as compared with housing (incomplete), 1980 June

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re development of the nuclear power industry in the USSR through 1990, inviting leaders of fraternal communist parties of socialist countries to the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow, and a possible meeting with them in Yalta, and a report by A. Pelshe on the results of the visit of a Soviet delegation to German Democratic Republic and on the free supply of Niva automobiles to Afghanistan, 1980 June

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re materials prepared for the business visit of a delegation of Polish leaders to the Soviet Union (to discuss publications in the Polish media about "anti-Soviet and counterrevolutionary elements," including Solidarity (Solidarnosc), possible declaration of a state of emergency in Poland, and financial assistance to Poland by the Soviet Union, 1980 October

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re talks with Mengistu Haile Mariam, Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council and Chairman of the Commission for Formation of the Ethiopian Workers' Party, and results of the visit to the USSR of S. Kania, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, and I. Pinikowski, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Poland, 1980 October

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re preparation for the 26th Congress of the KPSS (including work with delegations of communist, workers', national-democratic, and left social-democratic parties), approving the results of the visit to Poland of a delegation of party officials, headed by M. Zimianin, to investigate the situation in the country (the Polish United Workers' Party, Solidarity (Solidarnosc), activity of the Polish media, etc.), and re a request that TsK departments, the Committee for State Security (KGB), the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Ministry of Defense prepare proposals on Poland to be discussed by the Commission for Poland, 1981 January

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re conversations between L. Brezhnev and F. Castro, L. Brezhnev and T. Zhivkov, and L. Brezhnev and E. Honecker during the 26th Congress of the KPSS, 1981 March

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures to facilitate the construction and reconstruction of machine-building enterprises for agriculture and re the results of talks (of I. Arkhipov, V. Alkhimov, N. Baibakov, and V. Garbuzov) with the Polish delegation on supply of raw materials for Polish light industry and also of oil, metal, cellulose, etc., and re Poland's financial situation, 1981 March

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures for more effective use of fuel and energy resources in the Soviet economy in 1981-1985 and through the year 1990, re the 23rd (ordinary) meeting of the Military Council of the Joint Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Powers and re the situation in Poland (worsening political and economic conditions in the country and within the leadership of the Polish United Workers' Party and of the army, strengthening of the influence of Solidarity (Solidarnosc), highlighting of the Polish situation by Western media, etc.), 1981 April

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re approval of appeals of the TsK KPSS to the 1981 May Day demonstration by representatives of working people in Moscow, results of a meeting of IU. Andropov and D. Ustinov with Polish friends (S. Kania and W. Jaruzelski) on the situation in Poland and possible ways of improving it, re results of conversations between L. Brezhnev and H.-D. Genscher, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, and between A. Gromyko and G. Genscher, and re participation of the Soviet delegation in the 12th Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party, 1981 April

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re participation of the Soviet delegation in the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (incomplete) and re a telephone conversation between L. Brezhnev and S. Kania, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, 1981 April

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re talks with M. Qadhafi, leader of the Libyan revolution, and re results of talks between the delegation of the TsK KPSS and the leadership of the Polish United Workers' Party, 1981 April

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re talks with K. Waldheim, Secretary General of the UN; re cooperation between the USSR and North Korea in timber stockpiling on Soviet territory, and re signing an agreement on the boundary with Afghanistan in the Lake Zorkul area and Mt. Povalo-Shveikovskii (incomplete), 1981 May

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of a conversation between L. Brezhnev and O. Palme, Chairman of the International Commission on Disarmament and Security, re a report of L. Brezhnev about his conversation with S. Kania, and re the situation in Finland (possible election of a new president because of U. Kekkonen's retirement), 1981 June

Personal letter to L. Brezhnev from M. Gorbachev expressing his concern about the situation in agriculture, and possible necessity of importing grain; brief handwritten note, requesting that the letter be included in the working record of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo of July 16, 1981, 1981 July

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of a meeting between L. Brezhnev and Le Duan, Secretary General of the Vietnamese Communist Party, and re a discussion of Politburo members on the situation in Poland, 1981 September

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of a meeting between L. Brezhnev and K. Phomvihane, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and Prime Minister, re a telegram from P. Abrasimov, Soviet Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic, reflecting approval of Brezhnev's telephone conversation with S. Kania of September 11, 1981, by the leaders of fraternal parties (E. Honecker, J. Kádár, T. Zhivkov, and G. Husák), and re a telegram from Montreal about the hockey cup match between the Soviet Union and Canada, 1981 September

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of talks with A. A. Salih, President of the Yemen Arab Republic, re results of the business trip of K. Rusakov to East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Bulgaria to provide information about Soviet policy toward Poland, and re results of the visit of a Soviet delegation to Bulgaria to participate in the celebration of the 1,300th anniversary of the establishment of the Bulgarian state, 1981 October

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures to improve domestic trade and consumer services to be rendered to the Soviet population in the course of the 11th Five-Year Plan, re a letter from W. Jaruzelski requesting assistance to Poland, and re results of the Soviet-Cuban conference on South Africa, 1982 January

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures in connection with the official friendly visit to the USSR of the party-governmental delegation from Czechoslovakia headed by G. Husák, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President, re measures in connection with the official friendly visit to the USSR of R. Kirchschlåger, Federal President of Austria, re the report by K. Rusakov about his conversation with W. Jaruzelski during his visit to Poland, re a regular meeting of the Committee of Ministers of Defense of the Warsaw Treaty Powers, and re talks with the delegation of the Finnish Communist Party, 1982 May

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of talks with S. Machel, Chairman of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) and President, re the situation in Afghanistan and measures to improve it, re negotiations on the political settlement between Pakistan and Afghanistan, re Soviet policy toward Bolivia (the resolution adopted without discussion), and re a request from Shaliapin's children for reinterment of Shaliapin's body in the Soviet Union, 1983 March

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re fulfillment of plans for fodder protein supply and creation of facilities for its manufacture (in accordance with the Food Program of the USSR), re negotiations with the United States, North Korea, and Japan on demarcation of territorial waters, re trends in the development of the private sector in socialist countries (not included), and re development of individual and collective activity of the Soviet population in manufacturing consumer goods and delivering services to consumers (not included), 1983 May

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re international and domestic affairs: convocation of a conference of seven leaders of Europeansocialist states to work out measures in response to the placement of American rockets and Pershing-2 missiles in Western Europe, Soviet policy toward settlement of the Kampuchean problem, relations with China, conflict between Israel and Arab countries, relations with Japan, and the funeral of A. Pelshe, 1983 May

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re improvement in socialist competition, re approval of the conversation between G. Aliev and J. Block, US Secretary of Agriculture, about Soviet-American relations and the importance of a new agreement on grain, re a press conference for Soviet and foreign journalists about the intrusion of a South Korean plane into Soviet air space; and about the appointment of A. Babenko as Minister of Construction for Dalnevostochnyi (Far East) and Zabaikalskii (Transbaikal) krais, 1983 September

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re delay in adoption of the State Plan of Economic and Social Development for 1984 (the first page only), re violation of the work schedule (established by health care providers) by a number of Politburo members and TsK secretaries, and re a decision not to bring down the American civilian plane presumably hired by "American psychopath Flynt" to follow the route of the South Korean plane [brought down by Soviet air defense troops on September 1, 1983], 1983 November

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re approval of an open letter addressed to the district election commission for elections to the USSR Supreme Soviet of the eleventh convocation, re supply of cotton fiber to cotton-processing enterprises in 1984 (incomplete), and re Soviet policy in the Middle East (with regard to aggression committed by the United States and Israel against Lebanon), 1984 January

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of the development of the national economy in the first quarter of 1984 and putting additional efforts into fulfilling the plan for 1984 (incomplete), re results of the conversation of A. Gromyko and D. Ustinov with W. Jaruzelski, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP), about the situation in Poland and in the PUWP, Solidarity (Solidarnosc), etc., and re results of the conversation between D. Ustinov and F. Siwicki, Candidate Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the PUWP and Minister of National Defense of Poland, 1984 April

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re development of the nuclear power industry in the USSR through the year 1990, re invitation of leaders of fraternal communist parties of socialist countries to the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow and possible meetings with them in Yalta, report by A. Pelshe about results of the visit of a Soviet delegation to East Germany, and free supply of Niva automobiles to Afghanistan, 1980 June

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of the conference of leaders of the Warsaw Treaty Powers held in Moscow on December 5, 1980, and re results of the 13th Session of the Committee of the Ministers of Defense of the Warsaw Treaty Powers, 1980 December

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures to increase the manufacture of consumer goods in 1981-1985 and to respond more fully to the population's demand for those goods (incomplete), re a conversation of IU. Andropov and A. Gromyko with B. Karmal about a political settlement of Afghan problems and about measures to strengthen the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, and re the audience given by President R. Reagan to the wife of A. Shcharanskii [Soviet dissident, Zionist, and human rights activist, serving a sentence in prison] and telegrams from various countries demanding the release of Jews in prison, 1981 June

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re the agenda and date of the next Plenum of the TsK KPSS (incomplete) and re a draft project for the increase of timber transportation from the outer regions of the Soviet Union utilizing inmates of correction labor camps administered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1982 March

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re approval of draft appeals of the TsK KPSS for May Day 1982, re participation of the KPSS delegation in the 5th Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party, and re bringing to light by the Committee for State Security (KGB) of an anti-Soviet clandestine group in the Institute of World Economy, its activities and plans, and its members and their possible prosecution, 1982 April

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of the visit of D. Ustinov, Minister of Defense, to Hungary (the first page only), re adoption of a resolution demanding strict adherence by Politburo members and candidate members and by the TsK KPSS secretaries to work schedule established by health care providers, 1983 March

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of negotiation with a delegation from the Federal Republic of Germany, headed by Counselor H. Kohl, re the international communist movement in the non-socialist part of the world, participation of the KPSS in the movement, and expansion of the international role ofthe KPSS in world policy, re Soviet policy toward Lebanon (incomplete), re change in distribution of responsibilities among the TsK KPSS secretaries owing to the election of G. Romanov as TsK KPSS Secretary, and re abuse of regulations and violation of the law by top party and government officials in building private country houses (dachas), 1983 July

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re delay in adoption of the State Plan of Economic and Social Development for 1984 (the first page only), re violation of the work schedule [established by health providers] by a number of Politburo members and TsK secretaries, and re the decision not to bring down the American civilian plane presumably hired by "American psychopath Flynt" to follow the route of the South Korean plane [brought down by Soviet air defense troops on September 1, 1983], 1983 November

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re adoption of a long-term program for development of soil reclamation and utilization of irrigated and drained soils to guarantee food supplies (the first page only), re delivery in 1986-1990 of oil and oil products to the European countries of the Council on Mutual Economic Assistance (CMA), and re regulations for setting up contract prices in trade with the countries of the CMA in 1986-1990 (incomplete), 1984 May

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re the appointment of D. Ustinov as Minister of Defense to replace the deceased Marshal A. Grechko, re awarding L. Brezhnev the rank of Marshal (without publication in the press), re awarding D. Ustinov the rank of General of the Army in connection with his appointment as Minister of Defense, and re release of the Declaration of the Soviet Government on the Middle East, 1976 April

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a draft resolution to be adopted at the Plenum of the TsK KPSS on the State Plan of Economic and Social Development of the USSR and on the State Budget of the USSR for 1979, re discussion at the Plenum election of N. Tikhonov and E. Shevardnadze as candidate members of the TsK KPSS Politburo, and re recommendation (to be made at Plenum) to elect M. Gorbachev as Secretary of the TsK KPSS for Agriculture, 1978 November

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the Appeal to the Peoples, Parliaments, and Governments on the 30th anniversary of victory in World War II and a May Day greeting to the Soviet people issued by the TsK KPSS, Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, and the Soviet Government, awarding the Order of the Patriotic War to the city of Voronezh for heroism and courage duringthe war and achievements in the development of the national economy, approving draft decrees and resolutions of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet pardoning some categories of convicts in honor of the 30th anniversary of victory in World War II, and approving a meeting of the Council of Joint Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Powers in connection with the 20th anniversary of the Warsaw Treaty, 1975 April

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of talks with US Secretary of State C. Vance and re approval of proposals presented by L. Brezhnev about the procedure and terms for developing the draft Constitution of the USSR, 1977 April

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS government delegation to Czechoslovakia (the first page only), re the inappropriate practice of some departmental leaders of blaming the Committee for State Security (KGB) for submitting adverse information to the TsK KPSS, and re a proposal to be submitted to the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences to discuss the behavior of Academician A. Sakharov at the court trial of IU. Orlov [human rights activist], 1978 June

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re the draft Law on the Council of Ministers of the USSR (the first page only), re a visit of S. Gorshkov, Commander in Chief of the USSR Navy, to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, re authorization of A. Gromyko to sign a Soviet-Turkish agreement on demarcation of the Black Sea continental shelf, and re information and proposals submitted by IU. Andropov about the court trial of N. (A.) Shcharanskii [human rights activist and Zionist] charged with espionage and treason and about the request of President Carter not to mention Shcharanskii's connections with the CIA, 1978 June

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the leadership of the Communist Party of El Salvador (CPES), assigning the Ministry of Civil Aviation to transport rifles and ammunition (made in Western countries) from Hanoi to Havana to be then transferred to friends in El Salvador, and directing that expenses be compensated by the USSR state budget; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Cuba to be passed on to S. J. Handal, General Secretary of the CPES; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to North Vietnam; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the leadership of the People's Party of Iran to pay travel expenses of Iranian party activists from Iran to the USSR (to be provided by the KGB); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft decree of the USSR Council of Ministers re an increase in personnel of the KGB mission at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Hungary; two similar copies of the said draft decree; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Shchelokov, Minister of Internal Affairs, requesting the introduction of a position of assistant chief of the KGB mission to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Hungary, and assignment of an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to occupy the position, 1980 July-August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the KPSS Committee of Dagestan (obkom) to establish a Dagestan Branch of the Association for Cultural Relations with Compatriots Abroad (Rodina (Motherland) Association); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from M-S. Umakhov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Dagestan; personnel charts for the Dagestan branch of the Motherland Society; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Gorshkov, Deputy Chairman of the Motherland Society Presidium, 1980 May 1980 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from G. Hall, Secretary General of the Communist Party USA, to admit his personal representative for special training (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS (personally to B. Ponomarev) from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, 1980 August-September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re increase in foreign currency wages to be paid to officers of the KGB mission to the Ministry of State Security of the German Democratic Republic; two draft resolutions of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Drugov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB; resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft decree of the USSR Council of Ministers re an increase in personnel of the KGB mission to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Vietnam; the said draft decree adding the position of assistant chairman of the KGB mission at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Vietnam; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Drugov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Shchelokov, Minister of Internal Affairs, 1980 September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the USSR State Bank (Gosbank) exchange 5,000 rubles for Indian rupees; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, re a request from the leadership of the Communist Party of India to exchange Soviet currency, collected as membership fees, by Indian communists residing in the Soviet Union, 1980 October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the Communist Party of Chile (CPC) to admit to the Soviet Union fifteen representatives of the CPC for special training in mining, explosives, and sabotage (expenses to be paid by the Ministry of Defense); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from L. Corvalán, 1980 October-November

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of J. Faría, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Venezuela (CPV), to admit a party activist to the Soviet Union for special training (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from J. Faría requesting that his nephew K. J. M. Faría be admitted to the Soviet Union for special training, 1980 October-November

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the leadership of the South African Communist Party (SACP) to admit to the Soviet Union one representative of the SACP for special training in party work (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 November-December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Ministry of Defense to send a Soviet military delegation to Syria; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Drugov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, re the trip, members of the delegation, its financing and aims; four tables with personal data of each member of the delegation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Marshal N. Ogarkov, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces, 1980 November-December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving proposals of the Committee for State Security (KGB) presented to the TsK KPSS in a memorandum to the TsK KPSS and giving instructions to the State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio) re production of a special television film exposing agents of Chinese secret services; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, 1980 December

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Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the leadership of the Communist Party of Uruguay (CPU) to admit to the Soviet Union two members of the CPU for training in methods of clandestine work (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from R. Arismendi, First Secretary General of the CPU, 1980 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) to admit D. Vilner, activist of the CPI, to the Soviet Union for training (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department; extract from the memorandum of a conversation with M. Vilner, Secretary General of the CPI, recorded by N. Slepov, Reference Adviser of the International Department, 1980 August 1980 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to award Soviet orders and medals to a group of employees of the organs of internal affairs and servicemen of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for assistance to Afghanistan; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1980 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the proposal of the Committee for State Security (KGB) and the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo Pechati Novosti - APN) to establish an APN station in the city of Gdansk (Poland) (position of assistant chief to be occupied by a KGB officer, and his KGB benefit to be retained); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov (KGB) and L. Tolkunov (APN), 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers on adding the position of first secretary - assistant ambassador for administrative and legal matters - to the personnel of the Soviet Embassy in Nicaragua; the draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, and N. Pegov, Chief of the Department of Business Trips and Cadres Abroad; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, proposing that the position be occupied by a KGB officer; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; copy of the draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers; directives of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Minister of Defense to send to Cuba a group of specialists from the Ministry of Defense; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, naming the members of the delegation; nine tables with personal data of each member of the delegation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Marshal N. Ogarkov, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces; two memoranda to the TsK KPSS from N. Ogarkov requesting authorization to include additional members to the delegation, 1981 January-February

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Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re pensions to wives and children of officers who were killed or who died while doing intelligence or counterintelligence work abroad; the draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; extract from the April 1961 resolution of the TsK KPSS; resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1981 January-February

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a memorandum, submitted by TsK KPSS departments, authorizing implementation of instructions on mobilization for trade union and VLKSM (All-Union Young Communists League) organs in case of war; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, and N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; the instructions for trade union organs; the instructions to the VLKSM organs, 1981 February-March

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the Communist Party of Chile (CPC) to admit to the Soviet Union in 1981 twenty CPC activists and eight CPC leaders for special training in clandestine work; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from L. Corvalán, Secretary General of the CPC, 1980 November 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDPF) to organize an exchange of party delegations between the KPSS and SDPF (expenses of both delegations to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and P. Smolskii, Deputy Chief of Organizational and Party Work, 1980 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re supply by the KPSS of paper for L'Humanité newspaper and re measures for increased economic and trade relations with companies run by the French Communist Party; distribution list, 1980 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving measures for strengthening relations between the KPSS and the Italian Communist Party; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; list of authorities who approved the draft resolution; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Z. Kruglova, Chairwoman of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, re fulfillment of the resolution of the TsK KPSS [Secretariat], 1980 August-September 1981 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat with assignments to the International Department, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and to the Ministry of Defense; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, re proposals of A. de Smaele, Belgian public leader, on strengthening the status of European non-nuclear states; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving instructions to Soviet ambassadors to Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Belgium; the instructions asking for use of the Smaele proposals in the struggle against the placement of new American missiles in Western Europe; copy of the last page of the instructions, 1980 August-September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers authorizing payment for the round trip of A. M. M'Bow, General Director of UNESCO, with his wife, from Yugoslavia to the Soviet Union; draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. A. Kotelnikov, Acting President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and A. Fokin, Acting Chief Academic Secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences; resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 August-September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the TsK KPSS re financial assistance to the great-grandson of K. Marx, M. Longuet; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, proposing to pay 20,000 francs to M. Longuet to give K. Marx's documents over to the Institute of Marxism-Leninism; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Yegorov, Director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism; statement re the history of payments made to M. Longuet for Marx's documents, 1980 July 1980 September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan re measures to oppose discussion on the draft resolution, containing anti-Soviet and anti-Afghan issues, at the 67th Conference of the Interparliamentary Union; the instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the Soviet Peace Committee to invite 600 foreign delegates of the Peoples for Peace World Parliament to stay in the Soviet Union on their way to Sofia or on their way back (expenses to be paid by the Soviet Peace Fund); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, 1980 September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re participation of the Olimpiada-80 Organizing Committee in the General Assembly of the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee; draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers to be signed by A. Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Novikov, Chairman of the Olimpiada-80 Organizing Committee; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; draft directives of the TsK KPSS, unsigned; instructions to the delegation of the Olimpiada-80 Organizing Committee; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers signed by N. Tikhonov, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers; brief instructions to familiarize TsK secretaries with the documents; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Novikov with information about the agenda and course of the Assembly; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Pavlov, Chairman of the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports (Goskomsport) of the USSR Council of Ministers, re results of the General Assembly; report (unsigned) on the participation of representatives of the Goskomsport in the General Assembly of the General Association of International Sports Federations; brief notes directing TsK secretaries to familiarize themselves with the documents; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Novikov re results of the participation of the Olimpiada-80 delegation in the meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee, 1980 August-November

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat appointing V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, as a member of the KPSS delegation to talks with the delegation of the French Communist Party on the international trade union movement; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat giving assignments to the State Committee for Planning, the Ministry of Geology, the USSR Academy of Sciences, the State Committee for Prices, the Ministry of Trade, and the Ministry of Foreign Trade to work out regulations on output, utilization, and export of minerals, taking into consideration a memorandum from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Baskakov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry; brief handwritten note to S. Baksakov (from unidentified author); the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov; report on shortfalls in output, processing, and export of minerals signed by G. Grigorenko, Chief of the 2nd Main Directorate of the Committee for State Security (KGB); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Yastrebov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry, 1980 August-October 1981 March

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers leasing Soviet trawlers to the Soviet-Swedish joint stock fishing company Skarus(?) to work in Canadian territorial waters; the draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Mochalin, Chief of the Department of Light and Food Industries, and V. Shaposhnikov, Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Kamentsev, Minister of the Fishing Industry; resolution of the TsK KPSS; copy of the draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers; calculation of economic efficiency of Soviet fishing ships in Canadian waters; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 September-October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re measures to improve management in industrial and construction enterprises and increase wages of the employees; distribution list; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Kapitonov and V. Dolgikh re conflicts between the workers and the administration of some enterprises that resulted in work stoppages and in other workers' actions; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1980 October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Greece; the instructions to the Ambassador re payment by the KPSS of pensions to political émigrés who repatriated to Greece; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, 1980 August and October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re paper supply for Barricade newspaper published by the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua; the draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the InternationalDepartment, and P. Luchinskii, Chief of the Propaganda Department; statement re paper stocks reserved for fraternal parties; appeal to the TsK KPSS from the Nicaraguan Embassy; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat appointing a KPSS delegation to the funeral of L. Longo, Secretary General of the Italian Communist Party; personal data of the members of the delegation, 1980 October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a telegram to be sent to the Soviet ambassador to Denmark; the instructions to be passed on to A. Jorgensen, Prime Minister and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Denmark, re his appeal to the Soviet government to allow the family of V. Brailovskii to leave the Soviet Union; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; telegram (translated into Russian) to the International Department from A. Jorgensen, 1980 November-December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a plan for cultural relations of the Soviet Union with foreign countries in 1981-1982 (submitted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and the draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers issuing related orders and assignments; two similar draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers (differently formatted, one with handwritten annotations); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, S. Trapeznikov, E. Tiazhelnikov, I. Dmitriev, N. Savinkin, B. Gostev, V. Zagladin, O. Rakhmanin, V. Falin, V. Bazovskii, and P. Luchinskii; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Maltsev (Ministry of Foreign Affairs); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; two identical directives of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 December - 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Central Committee of the Young Communists League (TsK VLKSM) re participation of a Soviet youth delegation in the World Youth and Students Forum for Peace, Détente, and Disarmament in Finland; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Pastukhov, Secretary of the TsK VLKSM; brief notes; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Pastukhov summarizing the results of the World Youth and Students Forum for Peace, Détente, and Disarmament, 1980 December - 1981 February

Two identical resolutions of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers on establishing trade missions of foreign companies in Moscow; two draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Bazovskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Business Trips and Cadres Abroad, and V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Semichastnov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade; resolution of the TsK KPSS; protocol no. 7 on the decision adopted by the Interdepartmental Commission for Establishing Foreign Companies, Banks, and Organizations under the Ministry of Foreign Trade; six reports containing information about the companies Thomesto OY and Neste OY (Finland), Chilewich Corporation (United States), Société Générale de Surveillance S.A. (Switzerland), Prodag S.A. (Spain), Sytco S.p.A (Italy); directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 November - 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the editorial board of Novoe vremia (New Times) magazine to establish an office for Central America in Nicaragua and to shut down the office in Peru; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Sevruk, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from M. Fedorov, Editor in Chief of the New Times, 1980 December - 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the 1981 plan for contacts between Soviet social organizations and social organizations of capitalist and liberated countries; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; two similar memoranda (differently formatted, one with handwritten annotations) to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; copy of the said resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with handwritten annotations; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from L. Tolkunov, Chairman of the Board of the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo Pechati Novosti - APN), accompanying the APN proposals on contacts with foreign media and publishing houses (not included), with handwritten statement of V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 December - 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Nicaragua; the instructions requesting that the ambassador transmit to B. A. Castano, Member of the National Directorate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua, L. Brezhnev's thanks for his New Year's greetings and Brezhnev's best wishes to Castano, 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on preparation for the Medical Research Scientists for Prevention of Nuclear War Soviet-American Conference (Washington, United States); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Foreign Political Information, and V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Academicians IE. Chazov, L. Ilyin, and M. Kuzin re preparation for the Physicians for Nuclear Disarmament Conference, 1980 December - 1981 January

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Italy (copy to be passed on to the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party); the instructions requesting that the Ambassador transmit to E. Berlinguer or his deputy the TsK KPSS considerations re the L. Walesa visit to Italy; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a message to be sent at the request of the French Communist Party (FCP) to a meeting of French democratic intelligentsia from writers IU. Bondarev, V. Kataev, and IU. Trifonov and film directors S. Iutkevich and A. Tarkovskii, and a message to G. Marchais, Secretary General of the FCP, from space pilot L. Leonov; the messages; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat requesting that the State Committee for Planning (Gosplan) study Main Trends in the Economic Reform in Poland and submit the conclusions and proposals resulting from the study; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and IU. Belik, Chief of the Department of Planning and Financial Organs, 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing participation of the Soviet Peace Committee delegation in the session of the Bureau of the World Peace Council in the city of Antananarivo (Madagascar); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; tables with personal data of the members of the delegation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Primakov, Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the establishment of contacts between Kommunist (Communist) magazine and Neue Gesellschaft magazine, a theoretical publication of the Social Democratic Party of Germany; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to West Germany; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and E. Tiazhelnikov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat requesting that the Ministry of Civil Aviation provide for the Soviet Peace Committee round-trip transportation for 500 delegates from foreign countries to different cities of the Soviet Union and one-way transportation for 300 delegates; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; brief note stating that the Soviet Peace Committee was provided with 400 air tickets; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee; resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 December - 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal from the State Committee for Cinematography to deliver production and creative assistance (to be paid for in convertible currency) to the Europe Film Company (France) to make a six-part television film about the French diplomat Talleyrand; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture, and V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Yermash, Chairman of the State Committee for Cinematography; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 December - 1981 February

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Soviet Peace Committee to send G. Arbatov, Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, to Austria (February 1981) to participate in the International Commission on Disarmament and Security (the Palme Commission); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, 1981 January-February

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re transportation of the delegations of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan and the Yemen Socialist Party to the 26th KPSS Congress; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1981 February

Extract from the meeting of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a letter from workers re bread supply to the population and re conservation of bread resources (according to the Chernenko memorandum); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; the Chernenko memorandum, 1981 February

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re transportation by Aeroflot planes, for the Soviet Women's Committee, of representatives of foreign women's organizations to the Soviet Union and to international events; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries; brief note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, Chairwoman of the Soviet Women's Committee; table reflecting the distribution of special permits (obmennyi order), given to the Soviet Women's Committee, in accordance with destinations, 1981 February

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving participation of the Soviet delegation in the session of the Council of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and payment for the transportation of foreign delegates and their stay in the Soviet Union, and suggestions about Soviet media coverage of the session; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Dzasokhov, Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Committee of Solidarity with the Countries of Africa and Asia, 1981 January-February

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat requesting that the Ministry of Civil Aviation provide transportation for 300 foreigners invited to the Soviet Union by the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Z. Kruglova, Chairwoman of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1981 January-February

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the Ministry of Finance allocate 6,000 pounds sterling to the Institute of Marxism-Leninism to be transferred to the leadership of the Karl Marx Memorial House in London; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum of a conversation between N. Lunkov, Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain, and A. Rothstein, President of the Karl Marx Memorial Library in London, re employment of a new librarian, Rothstein's vacations in the Soviet Union, and the situation in the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1974 July-August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on introduction of three positions of full-time party workers within the KPSS organization of the Committee for State Security (KGB) and on establishing an Office of Political Education under the KPSS Committee of the 15th Main Directorate of the KGB; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, and G. Ageev, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of the KGB, 1974 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on selection of KPSS, Soviet, and VLKSM (All-Union Young Communists League) workers to be trained to occupy leading positions in KGB organs; two lists of republics and krais designated to send KPSS, Soviet, and VLKSM workers (with number of workers to be sent from each republic or krai) to a two-year course for training leading specialists in the KGB Higher Schoolin 1975-1977; draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, and N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB); two draft resolutions of the TsK KPSS; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1974 December - 1975 January 1974 December - 1975 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a report on the implementation of the 1974 KPSS budget; report to the TsK KPSS from G. Pavlov, Administrator of the Administration of TsK KPSS Affairs, on the implementation of the 1974 KPSS budget; account for the implementation of the 1974 budget; table of the 1974 KPSS budget receipts; table of expenditures for the TsK KPSS apparatus in 1974; table of expenditures for local KPSS organs in 1974; table of expenditures for propaganda in 1974; table of expenditures for training and retraining of KPSS and Soviet cadres in 1974; table of expenditures for structuring and restructuring of party organs, party enterprises, and party press headquarters; economic expenses of local KPSS organs; statement on appropriations from the KPSS budget conducted by decisions of KPSS committees in krais and oblasts and by central committees of union republics; statement on the balance of the 1974 budget as of January 1, 1975, 1975 May

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re memoranda from the Committee for State Security (IU. Andropov) of May 19, 1975, and from V. Grishin, Secretary of the Moscow City KPSS Committee, of May 20, 1976; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, re undesirable trends in the activity of Soviet artistic young people owing to weaknesses in the work of the Union of Soviet Theater Workers and the Union of Soviet Artists; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Grishin re unauthorized art exhibitions organized by avant-garde artists in Moscow; two distribution lists, 1975 May-June

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a visit of Japanese scholars to a camp for Japanese war criminals and authorizing the meeting of the scholars with inmates there; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Vinogradov, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, and I. Shcherbakov, Head of a Sector of the same department; reference containing personal data of the Japanese scholars; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Perevertkin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1955 March and May

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on early release of Japanese war criminals, convicted by Soviet courts; list of the Japanese war criminals to be released, with their personal data; copy of the resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat (differently formatted); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium, 1956 April, June-July

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re a telegram from IU. Andropov, Soviet Ambassador to Hungary; the telegram re information provided by M. Rákosi, First Secretary of the Hungarian Workers' Party (HWP), and A. Hegedüs, Prime Minister of Hungary, re the situation in the country and in the party after the 22nd Congress of the KPSS, with a distribution list, 1956 April

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Voroshilov summarizing his conversation with M. Rákosi re the situation in Hungary and in the Hungarian Workers' Party, 1956 June

Memorandum (made by IU. Andropov) of a conversation of A. Mikoian with M. Rákosi, A. Hegedüs, E. Gerö, and B. Veg re the situation in the Hungarian Workers' Party (HWP); memorandum (made by IU. Andropov) re speeches given at a meeting of the Central Committee of the HWP Politburo by members of the HWP Politburo and by A. Mikoian, and re the election of J. Kádár as First Secretary of the HWP instead of M. Rákosi; memorandum of a conversation between A. Mikoian and J. Kádár; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from A. Mikoian, accompanying the documents, 1956 July

Report to the TsK KPSS from I. Serov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re reaction of the Hungarian opposition (writers and journalists) to the situation in the country and in the Hungarian Worker's Party after M. Rákosi's forced resignation, 1976 July

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re a message from IU. Andropov, Soviet Ambassador to Hungary; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko re Andropov's reports about the situation in Hungary and in the Hungarian Workers' Party and about anti-Soviet publications in the Hungarian press, 1956 September

Report to the TsK KPSS from G. K. Zhukov, Minister of Defense, and V. Sokolovskii, Chief of the General Staff, re measures taken by the USSR Ministry of Defense to assist the Government of Hungary in suppressing political disturbances, 1956 October 24

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Perevertkin, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, re invasion of Hungary by Soviet troops; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Perevertkin re the situation on the Soviet-Hungarian border, 1956 October 24

Extract from the diary of A. Gromyko, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, re his conversation with J. Boldoczky, Hungarian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, about the urgent departure of Hungarian communists (currently staying in Moscow) for Hungary in connection with the events there and re the inquiry of Western journalists into the invasion of Hungary by Soviet troops, 1956 October 26

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Serov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), and A. Mikoian, Member of the TsK KPSS Presidium and Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, re their participation in a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Workers' Party about a new government to be headed by I. Nagy and about the current situation in the country, and re a request from J. Kádár to increase the number of Soviet troops in Hungary, 1956 October 27

Memorandum to A. Mikoian, Member of the TsK KPSS Presidium and Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, from I. Serov, Chairman of the KGB, re the situation in Hungary as of October 28, 1956, 1956 October 28

Memorandum to A. Mikoian, Member of the TsK KPSS Presidium and Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, and M. Suslov from I. Serov, Chairman of the KGB, re the situation in Hungary as of October 29, 1956, 1956 October 29

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Mikoian, Member of the TsK KPSS Presidium and Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, and M. Suslov reporting the worsening situation in Hungary and urgently requesting that Marshal I. Konev come to Hungary, 1956 October 30

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving the Declaration of the USSR Government on the Principles of Development and Further Strengthening of Friendship and Cooperation Between the Soviet Union and Socialist Countries , with amendments made at the meeting; the declaration, including a statement of the Soviet government re the situation in Hungary, 1956 October 30

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a telegram to be sent to P. Togliatti, Secretary General of the Italian Communist Party, re the situation in Hungary; telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Italy to be transmitted to P. Togliatti, 1956 October 31

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re the situation in Hungary; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Yugoslavia to meet with J. Tito and transmit to him a request from N. Khrushchev to arrange an incognito meeting between J. Tito and the Soviet delegation to discuss the situation in Hungary, 1956 October 31

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium appointing G. K. Zhukov, M. Suslov, I. Konev, I. Serov, and L. Brezhnev to develop measures for improving the situation in Hungary, 1956 November 1

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS Presidium accompanying a statement from Colonel Starovoitov, Chief of the 2nd Department of the MVD (Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del - Ministry of Internal Affairs) Directorate of Border Troops of the South-West Territory, about his conversation with Colonel Vigh, Chief of the Szabolcs Provincial Directorate of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and his colleagues who defected to the Soviet Union; the said statement, 1956 October-November

Extract from the diary of V. Zorin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, about his meeting with Lewikowski(?), Polish Ambassador to the Soviet Union, re the I. Nagy protest against the invasion of Hungary by additional troops from Romania and other countries and re the Nagy appeal to the UN to defend Hungary, 1956 November 2

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving measures to be taken with regard to the events in Hungary (not included), 1956 November 2

Extract from the diary of V. Zorin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, about his meeting with Lewikowski(?), Polish Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Zorin's answer to Lewikowski's inquiry about the legitimacy of the invasion of Hungary by Soviet troops, 1956 November 2

Extract from the diary of V. Zorin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, re his meeting with N. Bischoff, Austrian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Bischoff's refutation of radio broadcasts of Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania, and some other countries that stated that Austria allowed Horthy gangs and other hostile elements to enter Hungary from Austria, and Bischoff's assertion that the Austrian government allowed only planes with medical supplies, food, and clothing to fly to Hungary from Austria, and that Austria observed its neutrality, 1956 November 3

Draft appeal (with handwritten amendments) to the Hungarian people and program of the Hungarian revolutionary workers' and peasants' government (in Hungarian), 1956 November 4

Report on the situation in Hungary as of noon, November 4, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 4

Report on the situation in Hungary as of 9 p.m., November 4, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 4

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Yugoslavia re I. Nagy and his group; the telegram confirming the inexpediency of I. Nagy's public statement; ciphered telegram from N. Firiubin, Soviet Ambassador to Yugoslavia, re negotiations between E. Kardelj, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, and I. Nagy, about the expression of Nagy's support to the J. Kádár government in Szolnok and re Kardelj's request for defense of the Yugoslav Embassy from possible attacks, 1956 November 4

Report on the situation in Hungary as of 9 a.m., November 5, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 5

Report on the situation in Hungary as of 9 p.m., November 5, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 5

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers on urgent delivery of goods to Hungary; the resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers on urgent delivery of food and construction material, with cover letter to the TsK KPSS from N. Bulganin, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to J. Kádár, Prime Minister of the Hungarian revolutionary workers' and peasants' government, from Bulganin, with a list of food and construction supplies to be delivered to Hungary; appeal for assistance to the governments of fraternal parties from J. Kádár, 1956 November 5

Extract from the diary of D. Shepilov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, re his conversation with V. Micunovic, Yugoslav Ambassador to the Soviet Union, about the statement of K. Popovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia, on firing by Soviet tanks near the Yugoslav Mission in Budapest and about the Soviet protest against the Yugoslav Embassy's giving refuge to I. Nagy and his group, 1956 November 7

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium directing that Soviet representatives to the World Peace Council not approve publication of any document denouncing the actions of Soviet troops in Hungary, instructing the Soviet Peace Committee about their possible statements re Hungary, and containing instructions for the Soviet ambassador to France; instructions for the Soviet ambassador to France with explanations to be given to F. Joliot-Curie on the situation in Hungary; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, and V. Tereshkin, Deputy Chief of the same department, re ways of improving relations with the peace supporters critical of the events in Hungary; directives for the Soviet ambassador to France to ask Joliot-Curie to speak in favor of the Soviet actions in Hungary; directives to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary to oppose the criticism of Soviet troops in Hungary; letter to N. Khrushchev from I. Erenburg [Soviet writer] re possible reaction of the World Peace Council to the events in Hungary and offering a draft statement of the World Peace Council; the draft statement, 1956 October-November

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a draft of N. Bulganin's response to the letter from US President D. Eisenhower re the events in Hungary and requesting that the letter be delivered to the American ambassador to the Soviet Union on November 7, 1956, that it be broadcast on the same day by Soviet radio and publishedin the press on November 8; the letter; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko, submitting draft letters from Bulganin to Eisenhower, A. Eden, Prime Minister of Great Britain, and Guy Mollet, Premier of France, explaining Soviet policy toward Hungary and denouncing the situation in the Middle East (Israeli-Egyptian conflict); the letter (translated into Russian) to Bulganin from Eisenhower, 1956 November 5-7

Report on the situation in Hungary as of 9 a.m., November 7, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 7

Report on the situation in Hungary as of 9 a.m., November 8, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 8

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary; the telegram, with a message (to be transmitted to J. Kádár) approving establishment of two regiments of the Hungarian army, approving Kádár's decision to deny I. Nagy the right to stay in the Yugoslav Embassy in Hungary, and directing that Nagy issue a statement renouncing political activity, and that Kádár adhere to his position in his conflict with the Yugoslav Embassy in Hungary related to Nagy's refuge there; ciphered telegram to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov re his conversation with Kádár, 1956 November 8-9

Ciphered telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Yugoslavia from A. Gromyko responding to J. Kádár's considerations on measures to intensify struggle with insurgents, denying I. Nagy and his group permission to go to Yugoslavia, and denouncing the position of Yugoslavia toward Nagy and his group, 1956 November 9

Report on the situation in Hungary as of 9 a.m., November 9, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 9

Extract from the diary of N. Patolichev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, re his conversation with J. Boldoczky, Hungarian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, about putting I. Kovács in charge of food and drug supply in Hungary and about sending two or three employees of the Hungarian Embassy in the Soviet Union to Hungary to clarify the fate of the children of the employees of the Embassy, of the trade mission, and of other Hungarian enterprises in Moscow, 1956 November 9

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a letter to the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the TsK KPSS re I. Nagy and his group; two copies of the letter to J. Tito from N. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the TsK KPSS; message from IU. Andropov, sent from Budapest via high frequency line, with comments of J. Kádár on the draft letter to Tito from Khrushchev; message from Yepishev, sent from Bucharest via high frequency line, with comments of the leaders of the Romanian Communist Party on Khrushchev's letter to Tito; letter to Khrushchev, from Tito, re Nagy and his group, the policy of Yugoslavia toward those issues, and protection of the international reputation of Yugoslavia, 1956 November 8 1956 November 10

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a business trip to Hungary of M. Suslov and A. Aristov, Secretaries of the TsK KPSS, with a group of specialists in economics and approving a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary; the telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary, with a message to be transmitted to J. Kádár; memorandum to N. Khrushchev, Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from I. Serov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re results of his conversation with F. Münnich, Minister of Public Security of Hungary, re Münnich's order to cease establishing local organs of state security, and re his conversation with J. Kádár about arrests of ordinary insurgents pardoned by the declaration of the government, and re the situation in the organs of state security of Hungary, 1956 November 9-10

Report on the situation in Hungary as of 9 a.m., November 10, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 10

Report to the TsK KPSS from I. Serov, Chairman of the KGB, re arrest of counterrevolutionary elements, confiscation of weapons, and secret activity of foreign journalists in Hungary, 1956 November 11

Report to the TsK KPSS from I. Serov, Chairman of the KGB, re arrests of active counterrevolutionaries, confiscation of weapons, the program of the students' conference in Budapest and measures to destroy student counter-revolutionary organizations, and release of Professor T. Nagy at the request of J. Kádár and F. Münnich, 1956 November 13

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a draft telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary; the draft telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary, with a message to be transmitted to J. Kádár that the TsK KPSS approved his proposal to hold a conference and that G. Malenkov, M. Suslov, and A. Aristov would discuss with him the problems resulting from his proposal; ciphered telegram to the TsK KPSS from Suslov and Aristov about their conversation with Kádár re I. Nagy and his group and the decision to be made about their future place of residence, re the situation in the country, and re groundless arrests of people in Hungarian provinces by military and security organs; ciphered telegram to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov transmitting the letter to N. Khrushchev from J. Kádár proposing to hold a conference of representatives of the KPSS and of other fraternal parties to discuss their national policy and the relations between the countries; holograph letter to Khrushchev from J. Kádár, 1956 November 12-13

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov and I. Serov re the protest of J. Kádár and F. Münnich against taking Hungarian students to Siberia and the explanation given by the Soviet authorities, 1956 November 14

Brief note submitting a memorandum sent by M. Suslov and A. Aristov to the members and candidate members of the TsK KPSS Presidium and to the TsK KPSS secretaries; the memorandum re transition of the Hungarian opposition from armed to political resistance, the greater strength of the opposition in Budapest than in rural areas, and the J. Kádár proposal to appoint representatives of parties other than the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party as members of the Hungarian government, 1956 November 14

Report to N. Dudorov, Minister of Internal Affairs, from M. Kholodkov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, re the procedure for placement and maintenance of Hungarian counterrevolutionaries (totaling 4,000-5,000 people) in Ukrainian prisons and demanding speedy investigation of their cases to eliminate mistakes made during mass arrests; appeal (translated into Russian) to Soviet authorities from Hungarian communists M. Szepesi and L. Szelõsi claiming to have been arrested by mistake, 1956 November 11 1956 November 15-16

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Gerö, A. Hegedüs, and I. Kovács criticizing the policy of the Hungarian government and of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party toward leaders and participants in the armed insurgency, toward I. Nagy and his group, and discussing practical measures to deal with the aftermath of the upheaval, 1956 November 18

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS and to N. Khrushchev from I. Serov containing a report on the activity of Soviet state security organs in Hungary, 1956 November 19

Memorandum to N. Khrushchev from G. Malenkov, M. Suslov, and A. Aristov (sent via high frequency communication line) re the situation in Hungary as of November 22, 1956: agreement with Yugoslavia on I. Nagy and his group, stabilization of political and social life in the country, the situation in the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (HSWP), and a discussion with J. Kádár and the Executive Committee of the HSWP about the scheduled Conference of Representatives of Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries; brief note submitting the memorandum to the members and candidate members of the TsK KPSS Presidium and to the TsK KPSS secretaries, 1956 November 22

Memorandum to N. Khrushchev from G. Malenkov, M. Suslov, and A. Aristov (sent via high frequency communication line) re the situation in Hungary as of November 24, 1956: restoration of order in the radio and press, the firing of L. Fehér, Editor in Chief of Népszabadság (People's Freedom) newspaper, and changes in the editorial board of the newspaper, directives on procedures for registrationof former members of the Hungarian Workers' Party and for admission to the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, struggle with pro-Yugoslav elements re expulsion of I. Nagy and his group, and the work done in Hungary by Romanian leaders G. Gheorghiu-Dej, C. Stoica, and E. Bodnâras; brief note submitting the memorandum to the members and candidate members of the TsK KPSS Presidium and to the TsK KPSS secretaries, 1956 November 24

Memorandum to N. Khrushchev from I. Serov, Chairman of the KGB, re arrest of leaders of the armed uprising and re a silent demonstration in Budapest meant to protest the Kádár government and Soviet troops and to attract the attention of the UN to the situation in Hungary, 1956 November 24

Memorandum to N. Khrushchev from G. Malenkov, M. Suslov, and A. Aristov (sent via high frequency communication line) re the situation in Hungary as of November 26, 1956 (worsening of the situation in connection with the expulsion of I. Nagy and his group, change in the position of the All-Hungarian Workers' Council, transition of Kádár's government and the Executive Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party to more active actions against the counterrevolution), demanding a court trial of arrested counterrevolutionaries and sentencing five or seven of them to death; extracts from the unedited verbatim record of a speech delivered by J. Kádár to party and government activists and representatives of workers councils, 1956 November 25 1956 November 26-27

Memorandum to N. Khrushchev from I. Serov, Chairman of the KGB, reporting the investigation of previously arrested counterrevolutionaries and new arrests, the resumption of work in industrial enterprises, plans to withdraw Cardinal Mindszenty from the American Embassy and his subsequent arrest, and the number of Hungarians seeking refuge in Austria (700 daily), 1956 November 27

Extract from the diary of I. Zamchevskii, Chief of the 5th European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, re his conversation with J. Boldoczky, Hungarian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on November 28 re the situation in Hungary, reasons for the events there and for the negative attitude of Hungarians toward the Soviet Union, 1956 November 30

Handwritten memorandum of a conversation of M. Suslov and A. Aristov with J. Kádár on December 1, 1956, about the outline of his report to the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, to be held on December 2, 1956, 1956 December 2

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re a response to the note of the Yugoslav government about I. Nagy and his group; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from D. Shepilov, Minister of Foreign Affairs; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; draft note to the State Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia from the Soviet Embassy in Yugoslavia; note to the Soviet Embassy in Yugoslavia from the State Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia; ciphered telegram to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from N. Firiubin, Soviet Ambassador to Yugoslavia, with the text of the note sent by the State Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia to the Hungarian Embassy in Yugoslavia re I. Nagy and his group, 1956 November 24 1956 December 4 1956 December 6

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving the activity of G. Malenkov, A. Aristov, and M. Suslov in Hungary and appointing M. Saburov, A. Aristov, and N. Nikitin to consider sending a group of Soviet specialists to Hungary for assistance in economic affairs, 1956 December 8

Report signed by S. Ivanov, Chief of the Economic Department for European Countries (of the State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations), on free assistance provided to Hungary by the Soviet Union and other countries, 1956 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re sending to Hungary a group of Soviet specialists in the coal industry, economics, and finance, and a group of party workers, 1956 December 14

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium directing that the Committee for State Security (KGB) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, at the request of J. Kádár and F. Münnich, send Soviet specialists to work as advisers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Malenkov and A. Aristov re their conversation with J. Kádár about Kádár' report to be delivered at the Plenum of the Hungarian Socialist Workers'Party; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from J. Kádár and F. Münnich requesting that 23 Soviet advisers be sent to Hungarian organs of state security, militia, and border troops, with cover letter from Malenkov and Aristov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Serov, Chairman of the KGB, confirming the dispatch of 23 advisers to Hungary, 1956 December 3 1956 December 12 1956 December 14

Memorandum (translated into Russian) to N. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from M. Rákosi, with his considerations and proposals re the situation in Hungary, 1956 December 15

Memorandum to N. Khrushchev from IU. Andropov, Soviet Ambassador to Hungary, re his conversation with J. Kádár about strengthening state power in Hungary and the leadership of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, 1956 December 18

Memorandum (translated into Russian) to N. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from M. Rákosi, with M. Rákosi's considerations re the situation in Hungary in response to the statement of the Hungarian government of January 7, 1957, 1957 January 9

Memorandum (translated into Russian) to the Presidium of the TsK KPSS and to N. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from I. Kovács analyzing the course of events that led to the counterrevolution in Hungary, denouncing the policy of the current leadership of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, and requesting KPSS assistance in returning to Hungary Hungarian communists forced to stay in the Soviet Union by J. Kádár, 1957 January 10

Message (sent via high frequency line) to I. Zamchevskii, Chief of the 5th European Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from IU. Andropov, Soviet Ambassador to Hungary, submitting the text of a declaration on the main principles of the state, on the social and economic system of Hungary, and prospects for its political development, delivered to the Soviet Embassy by I. Bibo, member of the Executive Committee of the Petöfi Party, and approved by the Petöfi Party (National Peasant Party), the Social Democratic Party, the Peasants' Union, the Revolutionary Council of Hungarian Professionals, and the Union of Hungarian Writers, 1957 January 11

Extract from the diary of I. Zamchevskii, Chief of the 5th European Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, re his conversation with J. Boldoczky, Hungarian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on February 16, 1957, about Boldoczky's impressions after a ten-day trip to Hungary, 1957 February 22

Memorandum (translated into Russian) to N. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from M. Rákosi noting some improvement in the economic and political situation in Hungary, the slow increase in number and influence of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (HSWP), denouncing some of the leaders of the Hungarian government, criticizing the promotion of specialists of Jewish origin to the apparatus of the HSWP, and recommending efforts to attract to the HSWP old party cadres from internal and external exile, 1957 February 15

Memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS Presidium from E. Gerö, J. Revai, A. Hegedüs, and I. Kovács criticizing the leadership of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party for its position in 1944-1956, for determining erroneous reasons for the counterrevolutionary events of 1956, for allowing the spread of revisionist opinions in the media and social and educational institutions, and for their cadres' policy; first page of the memorandum (in Hungarian), 1957 February 22 1957 February 25

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re a ciphered telegram [to the TsK KPSS] from A. Yepishev; the ciphered telegram re the visit of E. Bodnarôs to the Soviet Embassy in Romania with a proposal to the Hungarian government to prepare the trial of I. Nagy and his group while they are in Romania, 1957 February-March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving resolutions of the TsK KPSS re the request of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party about M. Rákosi, E. Gerö, and other Hungarian comrades staying in the Soviet Union and re Rákosi's letter of March 25, 1957; resolution of the TsK KPSS supporting the decision of the Central Committee of the HSWP banning the return of M. Rákosi and E. Gerö to Hungary for five years and the return of A. Hegedüs and others for one year; resolution of the TsK KPSS denouncing M. Rákosi's position on the situation in Hungary, on KPSS policy in Hungary, and on his own mistakes, and commissioning the TsK KPSS Secretariat to find a place of residence and a job for M. Rákosi in some part of the Soviet Union, 1957 April 18

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium disapproving the dispatch of a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary and requesting that D. Shepilov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, talk with the Soviet ambassador to Hungary; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Shepilov and IU. Andropov submitting the proposal of A. Kethly, leader of the Hungarian social democrats abroad, to legalize the Social Democratic Party and proposing that Hungarian friends contact A. Kethly in order to oppose her actions; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; draft instructions to the Soviet Ambassador to Hungary, 1957 May

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re the arrival of J. Kádár and B. Biszku in Moscow for consultations; two directives to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary (differently formatted); memorandum to N. Khrushchev (from an unidentified official, first page only) re the agenda of Kádár's consultations with the TsK KPSS; statement on the Kádár visit to Moscow; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; comments on the Code of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, signed by IU. Andropov, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, 1957 June

Extract from the diary of L. Ilichev, Chief of the Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, re his conversation with B., Hungarian writer, re the situation in Hungary and re the joint production of the Rhapsody of Carpathia feature film based on the Illyés novel, 1957 July

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, R. Rudenko, and P. Ivashutin re their conversation with B. Biszku, Minister of Internal Affairs of Hungary, about the trial of I. Nagy and his group and about the resolutions of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Worker' Party, 1957 August

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, re his conversation with B. Biszku,Minister of Internal Affairs of Hungary, about rescheduling the court trial of I. Nagy and his group to December 1957 or January 1958, because of the Conference of Representatives of Communist and Workers' Parties, scheduled for November 1957, the 7th Congress of Communists of Yugoslavia, and the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the October revolution, 1957 August

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium charging the TsK KPSS Secretariat with the task of considering the matters raised in a conversation between V. Baikov, Councilor of the Soviet Embassy in Hungary, and S. József, Chief of the Department of Party and Mass Organizations of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Social Workers' Party, on September 16, 1957, about internal events and the economic situation in Hungary; extract from Baikov's diary, re the conversation, 1957 September-October

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving draft instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary with respect to a note from Yugoslavia; the instructions to be transmitted to E. Sik, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, with Soviet views on the response to the note from Yugoslavia; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko re the Yugoslav note that doubted the reliability of published accounts of the court trial of I. Nagy and his group, with the recommendation of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs as to a response; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; draft instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary; message (sent via high frequency line, translated into Russian) from V. Astafiev, Soviet Chargé d'Affaires ad Interim to Hungary, with the text of the verbal note from the Yugoslav Embassy in Hungary denouncing violation of the agreement not to prosecute I. Nagy and his group; ciphered telegram from V. Astafiev reporting the reaction of the Hungarian population to the judicial sentence imposed on I. Nagy and his group, protests from Great Britain and Switzerland, and demonstrations of Hungarian émigrés at Hungarian embassies, 1958 June-July

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving, with amendments, directives to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary; the directives (two copies, differently formatted), directing that the ambassador visit Sik, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, and transmit to him a message that the draft note from Hungarian comrades had been approved by the TsK KPSS Presidium; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Kuznetsov, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a draft directive to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary; directive to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary, with Soviet amendments to the draft note of the Hungarian government to Yugoslavia to be transmitted to Sik; verbal note (translated into Russian) from Hungary to Yugoslavia, 1958 July

Confidentiality agreement signed by I. Nagy as an agent of the 2nd Department of the United Main Political Directorate (OGPU) of the Council of People's Commissars, 1930 September

Statement on the activity of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) agent I. Nagy ("Volodia") resulting in the arrest and trial of a counterrevolutionary group of Hungarian émigrés; two identical reports to V. Karutskii, Deputy Chief of the 4th Department of the NKVD Main Directorate on National Security, from Altman, Chief of the 2nd Division of the 4th Department of the Main Directorate on National Security, re the arrest and release of I. Nagy, 1938 March

Statement on the biography and activity of the NKVD agent "Volodia," with cover letter to G. Malenkov from V. Merkulov, Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, submitting the statement about "Vladimir Iosifovich" Nagy, 1940 June

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Kriuchkov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re release to the Hungarian government (to oppose the campaign for Nagy's rehabilitation) of archival documents revealing the activity of I. Nagy as an NKVD agent, 1989 June

Cover page to the letter of January 10, 1957, to the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (CC LCY) from the TsK KPSS and the letter to the TsK KPSS from the CC LCY of February 7, 1957; resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the letter to the CC LCY from the TsK KPSS; the letter to the CC LCY from the TsK KPSS, criticizing the Yugoslav position toward the events in Hungary and its interference in the internal affairs of other countries and communist parties, its military cooperation with the United States, and Yugoslav opposition to the Soviet socialist system introduced in Yugoslavia, 1957 January-February

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from J. Tito in the name of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (CC LCY), reporting that the letters that the LCY and the KPSS had exchanged were presented at the Plenum of the CC LCY, and submitting a letter to the TsK KPSS from the Plenum of the CC LCY; the letter denouncing Soviet allegations re the Yugoslav position toward I. Nagy and the activity of the Kádár government, criticizing the TsK KPSS position toward the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party and toward Yugoslavia, asserting the rights of the LCY to have its own position toward the development of socialist countries and the Soviet socialist system, and complaining of intelligence and other hostile activity of Albania, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia in Yugoslavia, 1957 February

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Serbin, Chief of the Department of Defense Industry, recommending that V. Yemelianov, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, reject a prize from the Atoms for Peace Rockfeller Foundation (two copies); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Slavskii, Minister of Medium Machine Building Industry; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from M. Keldysh, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and IA. Peive, Chief Academic Secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, requesting that the TsK KPSS authorize Yemelianov to receive the Prize; letter (translated into Russian) to Yemelianov from G. Killian, Jr., Chairman of the Atoms for Peace Foundation; Yemelianov's personal data, 1966 July-August

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from D. Shevliagin, Chief of the Department of Information, proposing measures to oppose the conclusions drawn in New Trends in Soviet Economics, published in five volumes by the Economic Commission of the US Congress, 1966 August

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zaichikov, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo Pechati Novosti - APN), supported by D. Shevliagin, Chief of the Department of Information, requesting that the TsK KPSS approve the creation, in cooperation with the ABC American television network, of a television program about a worker from the Rostov-on-Don plant, 1966 August 1966 September

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Semichastnyi and V. Kuznetsov re the accidental crossing of the Soviet state border by the American citizen T. Dowson(?), member of the Peace Corps in Iran, 1966 September

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Burkov, Chairman of the Board of the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo Pechati Novosti - APN), supported by D. Shevliagin, Chief of the Department of Information, requesting that the TsK KPSS authorize the broadcast by an American company of a program on Vietnam based on Soviet documents, with commentaries by G. Borovik, Chief of the APN station in the United States, 1967 March

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Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and I. Makarov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, supporting the request from G. Hall, Secretary General of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA (N.C. CPUSA), to award the title of Honorable Doctor of Historical Science of Moscow State University (MGU) to J. Jackson, member of the N.C. CPUSA; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from G. Hall; the same memorandum in English, 1969 September-October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), proposing measures to denounce S. Allilueva's book Only One Year (Tolko odin god) containing anti-Lenin and anti-Soviet propaganda, 1969 November

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov and A. Gromyko re measures to use the stay of four US Navy servicemen (who deserted from the Vietnam war) for propaganda purposes; three additional copies of the first page of the memorandum, each signed by a TsK secretary; report signed by G. Shumeiko, Head of a Sector of the International Department, on the discussion that took place in his Department re the servicemen's stay in the Soviet Union, 1967 November

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work, re assisting the Student Union of East Pakistan in celebration of V. Lenin's 100th anniversary; personal data of G. Ptitsyn (head of the delegation to East Pakistan) and of S. Serebrianyi and V. Kozlov (members of the same delegation); recommendation provided for Ptitsyn by A. Danilov, Secretary of the VLKSM (All-Union Young Communists League) Committee of Omskaia oblast; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Secretary of the VLKSM Central Committee; list of supplies to be delivered to the Student Union of East Pakistan; statement signed by G. Shumeiko, Chief of the International Department, about the Student Union of East Pakistan, 1969 September 1970 March

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft letter to be sent to KPSS organizations re distribution of America magazine in the Soviet Union; the draft letter accompanied by a cover letter to the TsK KPSS from F. Konstantinov, Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the Union Republics, 1956 July-August

Copy of the extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the text of a note to the commandant of the US sector of Berlin from the commandant of the Soviet sector re provocative actions of American authorities toward the Soviet writer and defector A. Cheishvili, and directing that the Committee for State Security (KGB) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs take all possible steps to clarify the circumstances of Cheishvili's "kidnapping" and to bring him back from West Germany; the draft note to General Hamlet(?); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Mukhitdinov, A. Gromyko, and K. Lunev, with Cheishvili's biographical data and description of the circumstances under which he defected; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; report about Cheishvili and the officials who recommended him for a business trip to East Germany and authorized his trip, 1958 December

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat appointing B. Ponomarev, L. Ilichev, and G. A. Zhukov to work out proposals with respect to a memorandum from the writer B. Polevoi; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, proposing measures to facilitate rapprochement of the Soviet and American peoples as discussed in the Polevoi memorandum; summary of Polevoi's memorandum, signed by N. Mostovets, Head of a Sector of the International Department; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium; the memorandum to N. Khrushchev from B. Polevoi; resolution and extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Commission for Ideology, Culture, and International Party Relations, 1958 May 1958 November-December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Ilichev, Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the Union Republics, and G. Kazakov, Head of a Sector of the same department, re measures to be taken to actively oppose hostile propaganda broadcasts to the Soviet population; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Sergiichuk, Minister of Communications, proposing an improvement in distribution of broadcasting equipment to oppose hostile radio propaganda; statement from V. Snastin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the Union Republics, and G. Kazakov approving measures proposed by Sergiichuk; report to the TsK KPSS from M. Yegorov, Chief of the Technical Directorate of the State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio), and V. Kuzmin, Chief Engineer of the Main Radio Directorate of the Ministry of Communications, re introduction of special programs for eastern regions of the Soviet Union; report to the TsK KPSS Bureau for the RSFSR from A. Kosulnikov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the RSFSR, re broadcasting to Magadankaia oblast; memorandum to the TsK KPSS Bureau for the RSFSR from P. Afanasiev, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Magadankaia oblast; 14 memoranda to the TsK KPSS: from A. Miglinik, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia, from L. Mokerov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Kirovskaia oblast, from I. Senkin, Secretary of the Karelia KPSS Committee, from I. Kirienko, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Permskaia oblast, from KH. Sairanov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Bashkiria, from the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Uzbek Communist Party (signature is illegible), from P. Tashliev, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan, from V. Agkantsev, Secretary of the North Ossetian KPSS Committee, from L. Lentsman, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia, from N. Rocher, Secretary of the Komi KPSS Committee, from N. Gadzhiev, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, from M. Belenov, Chief of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, from K. Dzharkimbekov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, and from T. Uldzhabaev, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tadzhikistan, re implementation of the TsK KPSS resolution On Measures for Active Opposition to Hostile Radio Propaganda ; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Romanov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the Union Republics, and G. Kazakov; report to the TsK KPSS from A. Kaftanov, Chairman of the State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio); program of Soviet broadcasting to be aired simultaneously with hostile (foreign) radio propaganda; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1960 July - 1961 January

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Rudenko and P. Ivashutin re the arrest of, and possible penalty for M. Kaminskii, American tourist, charged with intelligence activity against the Soviet Union (according to a resolution of the TsK KPSS); decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet on the expulsion from the Soviet Union of M. Kaminskii, sentenced to a seven-year prison term; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1960 September

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from W. Foster, Honorary Chairman of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA, to provide financial assistance to his daughter S. Kolko; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Tereshkin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1961 July

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) that the KPSS arrange the distribution in the Soviet Union of The Worker Midweek newspaper, supplement to The Worker newspaper (CPUSA) in the Soviet Union; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Yegorov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the Union Republics, and V. Korionov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Sazhin, Chief of the Main Directorate for All-Union Publishing (Soiuzpechat); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from D. Robinson (Distribution Department of The Worker; statement signed by A. A. Pavlov, Deputy Chairman of the Mezhdunarodnaia kniga (International Book) All-Union Association, with information about The Worker Midweek and its subscription price; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from Pavlov, accompanying a sample of The Worker Midweek, 1961 October-December

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a memorandum from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Committee for State Security (KGB); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko and IU. Andropov re a petition for pardoning the American citizen McKinnon(?) sentenced to an eight-year prison term for espionage, and re Soviet policy toward this petition; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1962 April-May

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal from TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) to establish the additional position of correspondent of the TASS New York department and to appoint the American journalist A. Shields, member of the Communist Party USA, to this position; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from T. Kuprikov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and IE. Kuskov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from D. Goriunov, General Director of TASS; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1966 July-September

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re Soviet measures to increase exposure of US imperialistic policy toward Latin America; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, V. Kuznetsov, D. Shevliagin, and R. Ulianovskii accompanying the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS on the issue; possible topics of articles to be published in the Soviet press; memorandum to D. Shevliagin from L. Zamiatin with instructions to the media on the issue, 1966 July 1966 September

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Communist Party USA to appoint H. Jaris(?) as permanent correspondent of The Worker newspaper in the Soviet Union (expenses to be paid by the Executive Committee of the Union of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Beliakov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1966 October

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing canceling the debts of American companies selling Soviet books; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Beliakov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and A. Paniushkin, Chief of the Department of Cadres Abroad; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Makarov, Chairman of the Mezhdunarodnaia kniga (International Book) All-Union Association; information on reasons for the economic ineffectiveness of the Soviet book trade in the United States; list of outdated publications not sold by American partners of the International Book Association; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Semichastnov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade; draft resolution (of the TsK KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Cherniakov, Charg d'Affaires in the United States, and S. Shevchenko, Trade Counselor of the Soviet Embassy in the United States; statement on results of import-export activity of the International Book Association in 1967, with cover letter from B. Makarov, Chairman of International Book Association, 1968 January 1968 March-April

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the USSR State Bank (Gosbank) exchange 4,150 rubles for US dollars; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii re a request of F. Nassar, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Jordan (CPJ), to exchange 4,150 rubles (collected from Jordan communists in the USSR as CPJ membership fees) for hard currency; petition (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from F. Nassar; original petition in Arabic, 1969 June-August

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) to accredit M. Davidow as a Moscow correspondent of The Daily World (expenses to be paid by the Executive Committee of the Union of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Kuskov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from G. Hall, General Secretary of the CPUSA; original memorandum (in English) to the TsK KPSS from G. Hall, 1968 November-December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving proposals of the Propaganda Department re transmitting information in the Ukrainian language from the Radio and Telegraph Agency of the Ukraine (RATAU) in New York via TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) communication lines; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Dmitriuk, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Ovcharenko, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, and S. Lapin, Director General of TASS; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1960 October 1960 December 1970 January

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Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re a lump sum of financial assistance ("hard" currency equivalent to 114,000 rubles) to the France-USSR Society; copy of the extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1956 October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on reorganizing the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (Vsesoiuznoe obshchestvo kulturnykh sviazei s zagranitsei - VOKS) into the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (Soiuz sovetskikh obshchestv druzhby i kulturykh sviazei s zarubezhnymi stranami - SSODKS); two memoranda to the TsK KPSS from O. Kuusinen, N. Popova, G. A. Zhukov, V. Moskovskii, IU. Andropov, and V. Tereshkin (one of them signed) submitting the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; two memoranda to the TsK KPSS from M. Suslov (differently formatted); two identical tables reflecting the structure, staff charts, and salary of the SSODKS personnel; two lists of organizations over which the Administration of Affairs of SSODKS has jurisdiction; the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with handwritten amendments; brief handwritten note to M. Tupitsyn from V. Chernukha; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Tereshkin, Deputy Chief of theInternational Department, and B. Miroshnichenko, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Popova, Chairwoman of the Board of VOKS, submitting the VOKS Board's proposals for the consideration of the TsK KPSS; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; draft code of the SSODKS, 1957 August-November

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re assistance in ideological work to the Sudanese Union of the Republic of Mali party; draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re delivery of "mobile clubs," films, printing paper, and typeface material; two lists of typefaces (French) for a newspaper printing office to be delivered to Mali; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Korionov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and A. N. Yakovlev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation, with their views on publishing a newspaper for Africa in the USSR; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Beliakov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and A. Yegorov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation, re increase in Soviet broadcasting to Asia, Africa, and Latin America; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Psurtsev, N. Mesiatsev, and S. Skachkov, with Psurtsev's handwritten notes re broadcast to Africa, 1965 February 1965 May 1965 October

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the text of instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Finland; the instructions directing that he transfer 200,000 Finnish markka to E. Blumquist(?), the owner of the house where V. Lenin was in hiding in August-September 1917; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Snastin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the Union Republics, and V. Tereshkin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, re financial assistance to E. Blumquist; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Obichkin, Director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism; picture of a memorial plaque from the Workers' House in Finland that was established in honor of Lenin's Speech at the 3rd Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1907, 1957 November 1958 February

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the transfer to the Society of British-Soviet Friendship of 5,000 pounds sterling paid to Soviet circus actors for performances in Great Britain; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Mikhailov, Minister of Culture, 1959 July-August

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the exchange of one of Kandinskii's paintings (oil from the holdings of the Tretiakov Gallery) for Lenin's letter to G. Aleksinskii (exchange to be made by the Committee for State Security); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB; statement from A. Soloviev, Deputy Director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, confirming the authenticity of Lenin's holograph copy; the holograph copy, 1974 January-February

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re the main principles of a media propaganda campaign in connection with the visit of L. Brezhnev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, to the United States; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Smirnov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and IE. Kuskov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, submitting a draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, the text of the information for the media, and list of propagandistic and organizational measures; the text of the information for the media; the list of measures; the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; subject matter for publications related to L. Brezhnev's visit to the United States; list of the most important publications related to Brezhnev's visit to the United States; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1973 July

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re the procedure for authorizing private trips of Soviet citizens to socialist countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Organov, Chairman of the Commission for Trips Abroad, N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, S. Tsvigun, First Deputy Chairman of the KGB, and B. Shumilin, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, 1973 January

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving measures to oppose distribution of anti-Soviet and other politically harmful materials; list of the measures, 1971 June

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving in principle a draft resolution on the work performed by the KPSS organization of the Minsk Tractor Plant (MTP) to increase economic, social, and political activity of the plant's workers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Petrovichev, V. Medvedev, V. Shauro, I. Kozlov, and N. Savinkin re evaluation of the KPSS organization by instructors from TsK KPSS departments; memorandum, signed by members of the commission sent to the MTP by the TsK KPSS, containing analyses of the work performed by the KPSS organization of the MTP; resolution of the TsK KPSS; table of technical and economic indexes of several Soviet tractor plants in 1970; the resolution, with handwritten amendments, 1972 January

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat stating that a memorandum from the Committee for State Security (KGB) (not included) was discussed without any resolution being adopted, 1972 July

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re actions to be taken in cooperation with developingcountries and international organizations to enhance mass information in developing countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, and V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Ignatenko, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, re technical support to facilitate cooperation between the Soviet Union and other countries in the area of mass information to oppose influence of the United States, 1978 May 1978 October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re a business trip of Soviet specialists to the 33rd International Airplane and Space Engineering Show; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents submitted to the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1979 May

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re participation in, preparation for, and conduct of the International Conference on Solidarity with the Struggle of the Nicaraguan People; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department; four tables with personal data of members of the delegation to the conference; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee; resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1979 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re creative and productive assistance to PTV Production, Inc. television company (United States), in shooting a ten-part documentary about Soviet architectural and historical memorial sites and museums in the USSR; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture, and V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Yermash, Chairman of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1979 May 1979 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the appointment of Colonel V. Voskoboinikov as Member of the Military Council of the Independent Air Defense Army; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, describing V. Voskoboinikov; Voskoboinikov's personal data, 1979 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino) to start preliminary negotiations with F. Coppola, American producer and film director, re production of a Soviet-American feature film on disarmament; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture, and V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Yermash, Chairman of Goskino, 1979 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the world conference For a Peaceful and Happy Future to All Children in Moscow (September 7-11, 1979); two draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers to organizations and agencies involved in the preparation for and the conduct of the conference; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work, and G. Smirnov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department; statement on financial matters related to the conference, signed by V. Shaposhnikov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, Chairperson of the Soviet Women's Committee, A. Shibaev, Chairperson of the VTsSPS (All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions), and B. Pastukhov, Secretary of the TsK VLKSM (All-Union Young Communists League); attachment to the memorandum specifying that the participants of the conference will be housed in the Ukraine (Ukraina) hotel; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1979 June-August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on an increase in USSR participation in the activities of UNESCO; draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers appointing staff members in the Secretariat of the Soviet Interdepartmental Commission for UNESCO Affairs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Bazovskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Business Trips and Cadres Abroad, V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and I. Zemskov, Chairman of the Soviet Commission for UNESCO Affairs and Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs; directives of the USSR Council of Ministers; distribution list; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Zemskov, 1979 August 1980 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing participation of Soviet representatives in the next Session of the Bureau of the World Peace Council (September 1979, Panama) and approving the members and the head of the delegation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; table of personal data of V. Orel, member of the delegation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from O. Kharkhardin, Deputy Chief of the Soviet Peace Committee, recommending Academician IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee and Vice President of the World Peace Council, as head of the delegation and requesting that four members (one of them a top official from the International Department) and ten interpreters be included in the Soviet delegation, 1979 August-September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat appointing M. Gorbachev, N. Savinkin, and F. Mochalin to consider information presented in the memorandum of December 25, 1979, from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the results of the discussion at the TsK KPSS Secretariat meeting andto work out proposals; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; brief note to V. Karlov and F. Mochalin from A. Kirilenko; the memorandum from N. Shchelokov, Minister of Internal Affairs, re conditions facilitating the embezzlement of raw wool during procurement and processing; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Lakhtin, Minister of Light Industry, re measures taken by the Ministry of Light Industry to regulate and improve the system of state wool procurements, 1979 December-1980 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a reduction in cultural exchanges between the Soviet Union and the United States; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Demichev, Minister of Culture, 1980 January-February

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat putting the International Department, the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad in charge of publishing the secret Informational Bulletin of the TsK KPSS (on International Problems) and establishing a procedure for disseminating, preserving, and making use of the bulletin; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, 1980 March

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a plan for ties between the KPSS and the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua; brief handwritten note re amendments to the resolution; the plan, with a cover letter to the General Department of the TsK KPSS from M. I. Kovalev, Chief of the Secretariat of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and P. Smolskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work, 1980 March-April

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the election of Z. Kamalidenov and IE. Bashmakov as secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS, with personal data of the candidates; table of Bashmakov's personal data, 1980 March

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on the implementation of the TsK KPSS resolution On Organizational and Propaganda Measures in Anticipation of the 1980 Olympic Summer Games ; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, IA. Kabakov, Chief of the Trade and Consumer Service Department, and I. Dmitriev, Chief of the Construction Department, 1980 March-April

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino) re creative and production assistance to the Foreign Transactions Corporation television company (US) in making a series of documentaries about cultural assets of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture, and A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Yermash, Chairman of Goskino; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 March-April

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations give preference in commercial relations to the Greek businessman and publisher G. Bobolas(?), taking into consideration his role in promoting Soviet-Greek relations; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of International Information, and V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, supporting the proposal of the Committee for State Security (KGB) re commercial relations with Bobolas(?); brief note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Tsvigun, Deputy Chairman of the KGB; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 April

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat putting Ponomarev, Zimianin, Zamiatin, and B. Petrovskii in charge of working out a response of Soviet medical scientists to the American scientists who issued the statement Danger: Nuclear War; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat (see also opis31, file 48); resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the text of the response; the response; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of International Information, S. Shcherbakov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Petrovskii, Minister of Health, submitting the draft response compiled with respect to the proposals from the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Committee for State Security (KGB), and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the draft response; note containing information about the American scientists who signed the statement and about the Russian scientists to be appointed to sign the response, 1980 April

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing financial assistance to the All-India Organization for Peace and Solidarity; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 May

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a meeting on international matters of the secretaries of central committees of fraternal parties from socialist countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, TsK KPSS Secretary; brief note recommending that B. Ponomarev and K. Rusakov be included in the delegation to the meeting; brief note, signed by A. Balmashnov, stating that the meeting took place on July 14-16, 1980, in Budapest; memorandum (translated into Russian) to B. Ponomarev from H. Axen, member of the Politburo of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SUPG), proposing the agenda of the meeting, with attachment pertaining to the position of the SUPG leadership toward the mass movement for peace, security, and disarmament, 1980 May-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re the conduct of the 19th Coordinating Conference of the National Commissions of the Socialist Countries for UNESCO Affairs in Moscow in 1981 and participation of representatives from the Afghanistan National Commission in the conference; two versions of the draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re financing of the conference and transportation of the delegates; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Zemskov, Chairman of the Soviet Interdepartmental Commission for UNESCO Affairs and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 June

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on charging M. Suslov and chiefs of related departments with the task of improving the draft resolution on propaganda and counterpropaganda measures to be taken in Poland; copy of the resolution; brief note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, with their proposals for propaganda and counterpropaganda; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the proposals; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1980 September-October

Chapters from the survey Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1963 , prepared by the Historical-Diplomatic Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, undated

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on the publication of an article in response to the anti-Soviet action of the Italian Socialist Party (ISP); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; text of the article denouncing the Lefts for Afghanistan international conference, organized by the ISP, and criticizing the participation of members of the Italian Communist Party in the conference; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that airfare for transportation of foreign journalists to events organized by the International Organization of Journalists be paid by the Union of Soviet Journalists; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Smirnov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, supporting the request from the USSR Union of Journalists for free transportation of Afghan journalists to the session of the General Secretariat of the International Organization of Journalists in Prague; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IA. Lomko, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Union of Soviet Journalists; statement from the Propaganda Department proposing to pay part of the transportation of Afghan journalists, 1980 October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the participation of Soviet representatives in a conference of the International Commission on Disarmament and Security (the Palme Commission); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, describing aims of the commission and presenting information about its members; three reports on the December 13-15, 1980, February 6-9, 1981, and December 3-9, 1981, conferences of the commission, signed by G. Arbatov, with his cover letters to the TsK KPSS; schedule of the sessions of the commission and their agenda; distribution list, 1980 November-December 1981 February 1981 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a text to be sent to the Soviet ambassadors to Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and the Netherlands; the text about the initiative of A. de Smaele, Belgian public leader, re strengthening the status of European non-nuclear states and limiting nuclear weapons in Europe; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and G. Kiselev, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, submitting the text of the information for the ambassadors approved by A. Kovalev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and N. Ogarkov, Deputy Minister of Defense, 1980 November

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat outlining measures to strengthen anti-military trends in major international events, taking into consideration the results of the Peoples for Peace World Parliament; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, G. Kiselev, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, 1980 November

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the appropriation of 14,000 rubles for the Soviet Peace Fund to be spent on souvenirs for foreign organizations participating in the celebration of V-E Day; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Maresiev, Executive Secretary of the Soviet War Veterans Committee; list of souvenirs (with the quantity and price of each item) to be sent to the Soviet Embassy in France; memorandum to the International Department of the TsK KPSS (copies to A. Kovalev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and P. Batov, Chairman of the Soviet War Veterans Committee) from the Soviet Embassy in France, re celebration of the 35th anniversary of V-E Day in France and the role of the French Communist Party in it (incomplete), 1980 July October-November

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Main Directorate for Foreign Tourism of the USSR Council of Ministers to reduce temporarily the exchange of tourists between the Soviet Union and Poland; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Bazovskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Business Trips and Cadres Abroad, N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work, and O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries; brief instructions to Bazovskii, Petrovichev, and Rakhmanin from K. Rusakov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Nikitin, Chief of the Main Directorate for Foreign Tourism of the USSR Council of Ministers, A. Shibaev, Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, and B. Pastukhov, First Secretary of the All-Union Young Communists League, giving the reasons for the reductions, 1980 November

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the establishment of the Directorate for Informational Systems within the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo Pechati Novosti - APN); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Tolkunov, Chairman of the APN, 1980 November-December

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a response to the resolution of the leadership of the Italian Communist Party on the situation in Poland; instructions to the Soviet ambassadors to Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia and instruction to the Soviet ambassador to Poland; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the list of documents directed to the Politburo, 1980 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re requests from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) and from the government of Grenada and re instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Cuba; draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers ordering the dispatch of two Soviet specialists and one interpreter to Cuba to assist in assembling and adjusting a radio broadcasting station to be transferred from Cuba to Grenada and to train Granadian radio station personnel; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Cuba; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to V. A. Shamshin, USSR Minister of Communications, from B. Coard, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Planning, and Trade and Member of the Politburo of the New Jewel Movement of Grenada; memorandum (translated into Russian) to V. Vorotnikov, Soviet Ambassador to Cuba, from J. M. Oropesa, Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPC; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 October-December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on conducting a consultative conference of representatives from the peace movements of socialist countries in Moscow (December 1980) (expenses to be paid by the Soviet Peace Fund); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Kiselev, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, 1980 November-December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re financing of international events in scientific cooperation in which the USSR Academy of Sciences planned to participate in 1981; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Aleksandrov, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences; list of international scientific events in which academies of sciences from union republics and scientific centers and divisions of the USSR Academy of Sciences are scheduled to participate in 1981 (expenses to be paid by participating parties); list of international events in which the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences is scheduled to participate in 1981; three lists of international scientific events in chemical engineering and biology, in earth science, and in social sciences scheduled for 1981 (expenses to be paid by participating parties), 1980 October 1980 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on increasing cooperation between the Soviet State Radio and Television and Italian television and radio stations; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Lapin, Chairman of the State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio), proposing measures to increase cooperation with Italian television and radio stations influenced by the Italian Communist Party; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, V. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, and V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 October-December

Resolution (with handwritten amendments) of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on measures to assist the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan in ideological work; draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re delivery of 16 soundtrucks and special training to four Afghan printing trade workers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, proposing steps to assist Afghanistan in ideological work; statement confirming approval of the steps by the authorities; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the steps proposed by the TsK KPSS departments; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; report to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, P. Luchinskii, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and R. Ulianovskii on implementation of the TsK KPSS resolutions on strengthening informational and propaganda work for Afghanistan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii re implementation of the TsK KPSS decisions on assistance to Afghanistan in ideological work; brief handwritten note to Ulianovskii from B. Ponomarev; brief handwritten note to the General Department from an unidentified author; report to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin and E. Tiazhelnikov on implementation of the TsK KPSS resolutions, 1980 December 1981 February 1981 November-December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving preliminary talks between the USSR Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences as part of the preparation for the Soviet-American conference on international security and arms control; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and. A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Aleksandrov, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and G. Skriabin, Chief Academic Secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1980 November-December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the Soviet Peace Committee invite the Palme Commission to conduct a meeting in Moscow (April-May 1981), dispatch Soviet representatives abroad to participate in the work of the commission, and allocate $10,000 to its budget; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Arbatov, Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, with information about Arbatov's talks with D. Edwards(?), Academic Secretary of the Palme Commission, 1980 November-December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a business trip of M. Zimianin to Finland in December 1980; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, and A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers on a trade settlement with the Magra GmbX company run by the French Communist Party; the draft directive; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, requesting that the TsK KPSS authorize a five-year extension to settle the debts of Magra GmbX; two brief handwritten notes; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Komarov, Minister of Foreign Trade; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 November-December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Finland and directing that the Administration of TsK KPSS Affairs buy an appropriate gift for K. Sorsa, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Finland requesting that he transmit greeting from the KPSS and an appropriate gift for Sorsa's 50th birthday; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet on awarding the Friendship of Peoples Order to the Belarus (Belorussia) publishing house and authorizing the Belorussian State Committee for Publishing to recommend five employees of the publishing house and workers of the printing house for decoration with orders and medals; the draft decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the list of documents directed to the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1980 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re control of the distribution of Polish printed media items in the Soviet Union; list of Polish newspapers and magazines to be banned for retail sale and subscription; list of Polish newspapers and magazines to be controlled by the Main Directorate for Safeguarding State Secrets in the Press (Glavlit); instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Poland; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries; brief handwritten note; two memoranda (of October 1980 and of March 1981) to the TsK KPSS from P. Romanov, Chairman of Glavlit; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; brief handwritten instruction; distribution list; table results of the inspection of Polish newspapers and magazines delivered from October 23, 1980, to March 1, 1981; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov summarizing information from Glavlit, the Ministry of Communications, and the State Committee for Planning (Gosplan) aboutimplementation of the resolution of the TsK KPSS on improvements in material and technical equipment of Glavlit; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Romanov, V. A. Shamshin, Minister of Communications, and V. Biriukov, Deputy Chairman of Gosplan, 1980 October 1980 December 1981 March 1981 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers and instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Australia; draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers authorizing a proposal from the Ministry of the Merchant Marine to write off the debts of the Palanga Travel Company (Australia) and to stop legal proceedings against the company; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Australia; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of related documents, directed to the TsK KPSS, 1980 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Soviet Committee of Solidarity with the Countries of Africa and Asia to provide transportation for representatives of developing countries and of national liberation movements participating in international events in 1981; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Dzasokhov, Deputy Chief of the Soviet Committee of Solidarity with the Countries of Africa and Asia, 1980 December - 1981 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat putting the Party Control Committee in charge of investigating claims from working people re shortfalls in the delivery of table salt to the population; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Yakovlev, Chief of the Department of Letters, summarizing the public's claims re insufficient supplies of salt, its poor quality and the limited number of brands available, 1981 February

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a list of measures designed by the Ministry of Defense and the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Armed Forces and Navy to develop ties between the Soviet army and foreign armies; the plan for 1978-1979; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from D. Ustinov, Minister of Defense, submitting the plan for contacts with foreign armies designed by the Ministry of Defense; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from G. Sredin, Chief of the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Armed Forces and Navy, submitting the plan for contacts with foreign armies designed by the Main Political Directorate; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from D. Ustinov and A. Yepishev and draft resolution of the TsK KPSS re measures to strengthen contacts between the political organs of the Soviet Armed Forces and the political organs of the armies of North Vietnam, Cuba, and Laos; list of the measures, 1978 January-February

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving measures to encourage foreign national Olympic committees to participate in the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; draft list of the measures; instructions to Soviet ambassadors and Soviet representatives [to the UN]; list of capitals to which the instructions should be sent; instruction to the Soviet ambassador to Ireland re his meeting with M. Killanin, President of the International Olympic Committee; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Mexico re his meeting with M. Rania(?), President of the Association of National Olympic Committees; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Switzerland re his meeting with T. Keller, President of the General Association of International Sports Federations; two memoranda (differently formatted) to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of International Information; two identical memoranda to the TsK KPSS from I. Novikov, Chairman of the Olimpiada-80 Organizing Committee; draft list of measures to encourage foreign national Olympic committees to participate in the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; information to be sent to Soviet ambassadors; list of capitals the information should be sent to; memorandum to the Soviet ambassador to Ireland re transmitting the information to M. Killanin; memorandum to the Soviet ambassador to Mexico, re transmitting the information to M. Rania(?); memorandum to the Soviet ambassador to Switzerland re transmitting the information to Keller; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the list of measures to encourage foreign national Olympic committees to participate in the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow, 1980 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino) to lend creative and productive assistance to the Granada television company (Great Britain) in shooting a series of documentaries about the history of Soviet cinematography; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture, and A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Yermash, Chairman of Goskino; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; brief note, 1980 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers establishing a procedure for evaluating requests from other countries re trips to the 22nd Olympic Summer Games; the draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department; note re the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; three directives of the USSR Council of Ministers (differently formatted); resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 June-July

Resolution (with handwritten amendments) of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on strengthening information and propaganda work in Iran; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; two memoranda (differently formatted) to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, P. Luchinskii, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; two identical statements on the propaganda situation in Iran, issued by the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad; two identical lists of the organizations that approved the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; resolution of the TsK KPSS, with handwritten amendments; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, G. Smirnov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and Ulianovskii re implementation of the TsK KPSS resolution, 1980 June-July 1981 July

Two different resolutions of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re establishing and strengthening ties between Soviet and foreign cities; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Pegov, Chief of the Department for Business Trips and Cadres Abroad; information about Soviet and foreign cities; brief note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Z. Kruglova, Chaiwoman of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Kruglova, containing amendments to her previous memorandum; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; list of measures to improve relations between Soviet cities and cities of capitalist and developing countries and, 1980 March-April 1980 June-July

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the establishment of ties between the KPSS and the Socialist Party of Japan (SPJ) in 1980; list the events to take place in 1980 to strengthen relations between the KPSS and the SPJ; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and P. Smolskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; brief statement on the number of Japanese delegations to the USSR and Soviet delegations to Japan and terms of their stay; draft list of events to take place in 1980 to strengthen relations between the KPSS and the SPJ, with a cover letter from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat awarding the Order of Friendship of Peoples to Lord Killanin, President of the International Olympic Committee; draft decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents sent to the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1980 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re establishment and strengthening of ties between Soviet and foreign cities; list of measures to improve relations between Soviet cities and cities of capitalist and developing countries (the documents are identical to those of file 90 of this opis), 1980 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving proposals of IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), and a draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re the proposals; two draft resolutions (differently formatted) of the USSR Council of Ministers granting the Secretariat of the KGB the status of Administration of Affairs with the right to manage the KGB central apparatus independently; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; brief handwritten note from B. Ponomarev (General Department) to N. Savinkin; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 July

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Soviet Peace Committee to send a delegation to the International Conference on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, to be held in Japan; list of the members of the delegation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; four tables with personal data of the delegates; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, 1980 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on the results of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with handwritten amendments (pages out of order); two identical pages of an unidentified related document submitted to M. Zimianin, 1980 August

Two versions of a resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the Soviet Olympic Committee to recommend that 5,000 people who prepared and conducted the 22nd Olympic Games in Moscow be decorated with Soviet orders and banners and approving a proposed distribution of state awards among ministries and departments; table re the distribution of state awards among ministries, departments, and organizations; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents sent to the TsK KPSS Politburo; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, re recommending employees of the Ministry of Civil Aviation for awards; draft resolution and resolution of the TsK KPSS authorizing the Ministry of Civil Aviation to recommend 450 workers of the ministry for awards; draft resolution and resolution of the TsK KPSS authorizing the Ministry of Communications Equipment Industry, the State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio), and the Moscow City KPSS Committee to recommend 750 industrial workers from three enterprises for awards; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Serbin, Chief of the Department of Defense Industry, and E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, 1980 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the Ministry of Defense, the Committee for State Security (KGB), and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to recommend that 2,650 people be decorated with Soviet orders and banners for participation in preparing and conducting the 22nd Olympic Summer Games; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents sent to the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1980 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on a discussion of the results of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games to be delivered to central committees of communist and workers' parties of socialist countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and M. Gramov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department; resolution (not accepted) of the TsK KPSS approving the text of a telegram summarizing the results of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games to be sent to Soviet ambassadors for transmission to the central committees of communist and workers' parties of socialist countries; text of the telegram, 1980 August

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, re unwillingness of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism to accept a book by V. Lenin as a gift from A. Hammer (American businessman); instructions to the Soviet Ambassador to the United States; letter to A. Aleksandrov from A. Dobrynin, Soviet ambassador to the United States, with annotations; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Rodionov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, with a proposed letter to the Soviet ambassador to the United States, 1981 January-February

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Sedykh, Director of the Progress Publishers, and A. Hammer (American businessman) re publication of the book by B. Considine about A. Hammer, 1981 April

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Lebanese Communist Party to admit twelve Lebanese comrades to the Soviet Union for training in military operations (expenses to be paid by the Ministry of Defense); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1973 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the text of an appeal to the leaders of the Parcham (Banner) and Khalq(Masses) wings of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan to be sent to Kabul via KGB channels; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan to transmit the appeal to K. Babrak and N. M. Taraki (separately); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1974 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Zambia re the situation within the leadership of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (PMLA); text of the telegram; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, describing the crisis within the leadership of the PMLA as a result of a struggle for power and intertribal conflicts; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Kulikov, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces, re cessation of the liberation struggle in Angola, 1973 December - 1974 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on including the position of Chief of the 12th Department of the 2nd Main Directorate of the Committee for State Security (KGB) in the list of the TsK KPSS nomenklatura; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, 1973 December - 1974 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet re the question put forward by the Ministry of Chemical and Petroleum Refining Industry and by the Gorkii City KPSS Committee, 1974 January

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving requests from the leaderships of the Communist Party of Argentina (CPA), the People's Party of Panama (PPP), the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (NSP), and the Popular Vanguard Party of Costa Rica (PVP) to admit communists from those countries for military training (expenses to be paid by the Ministry of Defense); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Kuskov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; four memoranda (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from O. Ghioldi, Secretary of the CPA, R. D. Souza, Secretary General of the PPP, L. S. Sancho, First Secretary of the NSP, and H. V. Carbonell, Secretary of the PVP, 1973 November - 1974 January

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re the memorandum of March 28, 1974, from R. Rudenko, USSR Prosecutor General; brief note; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Rudenko describing the crime situation in the country (January 1973-January 1974), 1974 March-April

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a memorandum from the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Health, and theMinistry of Medical Equipment; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Petrovskii, I. Tuzhilkin, and S. Kurkotkin re development of new antibiotics and chemical preparations for protection from weapons of mass destruction; resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, and V. Bushuev, Chief of the Department of Chemical Industry, 1974 March-April

)Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Syrian Communist Party (SCP) to provide Syrian communists with training in secret work (in Damascus) and to admit one representative of the SCP for training in special methods of work with passports (training to be paid by the International Department and the Committee for State Security (KGB), and living expenses by the Administration of TsK KPSS Affairs); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Kuskov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1974 April-May

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Brazilian Communist Party (BCP) to admit L. Leal, executive of the BCP, for special training in party technique (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from L. C. Prestes, Secretary-General of the BCP, 1974 May

Two identical resolutions of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leader of the Parcham (Banner) wing of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan to admit to the USSR the Afghan citizen D. Barlai (his sister-in-law) for treatment (expenses to be paid by the Ministry of Health and by the KPSS); telegram to the KGB resident in Kabul; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1974 May

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the text of a telegram about the visit of M. Daoud, Prime Minister of Afghanistan, to be transmitted by the KGB resident in Afghanistan to B. Karmal and N. M. Taraki, leaders of the Parcham (Banner) and Khalq (Masses) wings of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan; the telegram; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1974 June

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat putting D. Ustinov in charge of considering the facts presented by a memorandum from IU. Andropov; the memorandum containing information about the failed attempt of V. Beletskii to transmit secret information on the location of Soviet missiles to the US Embassy in the Soviet Union and re shortcomings in preserving secrecy by enterprises related to the defense industry; statement on measures taken as a result of Andropov's memorandum, 1974 June

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Syrian Communist Party to admit to the USSR three Syrian communists for training in secret work (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Syria; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1974 June

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re establishing the position of Deputy Commander for Protection of Secrets in Special Aviation Detachment No. 235 under the Ministry of Civil Aviation; two draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Drugov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov (Committee for State Security) and B. Bugaev (Ministry of Civil Aviation); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1974 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat requesting that the Board of the USSR Foreign Trade Bank (Vneshtorgbank) exchange 3,000 rubles for Czech korunas (at the request of A. Muhammad, First Secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1974 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat requesting that the Committee for State Security (KGB) manufacture, at the request of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP), 100 Swaziland passports with necessary seals; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Y. M. Dadoo, Chairman of the SACP, 1974 June-July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Lebanese Communist Party to admit twelve Lebanese comrades to the Soviet Union for training in military operations (expenses to be paid by the Ministry of Defense); copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1974 July

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items I-VI and 1-10 of the agenda), 1990 May 4-8 1990 June 28

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 11-20 of the agenda), 1990 May 10-11

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 21-29 of the agenda), 1990 May 11-12

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 30-42 of the agenda), 1990 May 15-17

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 43-53 of the agenda), 1990 May 17-21

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 54-66 of the agenda), 1990 May 21-24

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 67-79 of the agenda), 1990 May 25

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 89-99 of the agenda), 1990 May 30 - June 1

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 100-113 of the agenda), 1990 June 1-8

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 114-120 of the agenda), 1990 June 8

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 168-173 of the agenda), 1990 June 28

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 188, items 1-10 of the agenda), 1990 June 29

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 188, items 11-20 of the agenda), 1990 June 30-July 5

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 188, items 21-35 of the agenda), 1990 July 5-6

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meetingof the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 188, items 36-50 of the agenda), 1990 July 8-10

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 188, items 51-62 of the agenda), 1990 July 11-13

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 188, items 63-70 of the agenda), 1990 July 13

List of the original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 188, items 71-83 of the agenda), 1990 July 13

Ciphered telegram to S. Kosior and V. Chubar from J. Stalin re the court trial of Yefremov and others, offering Stalin's view of the trial, 1930 January

Ciphered telegram to all members of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo from J. Stalin requesting approval of the expulsion from the VKP(b) and immediate arrest of G. Yagoda, former People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, 1937 March

Ciphered telegram from J. Stalin to the national central committees of the VKP(b) and to VKP(b) committees in krais and oblasts suggesting, on behalf of the TsK VKP(b), that they organize meetings of workers, peasants, and rank and file of the Red Army and adopt resolutions demanding capital punishment for M. Tukhachevskii, I. Yakir, I. Uborevich, and others (top Red Army commanders) and stating that the court trial of these people should end that night and the sentence be published the next day, 1937 June

Brief memorandum to L. Beria from J. Stalin authorizing, on behalf of the TsK VKP(b), the arrest of Z. Lordkipanidze, Secretary of the Executive Committee of Adzharia, 1937 July

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from L. Beria, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) of Georgia, requesting authorization to arrest Z. Lordkipanidze, Secretary of the Executive Committee of Adzharia, with Stalin's signature authorizing the arrest, 1937 July

Ciphered telegram to L. Grishchuk, Secretary of the Lvov City Committee (gorkom) of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, from J. Stalin demanding that Lvov authorities stop abusing the Polish population of the city (copies to N. Khrushchev and M. Burmistenko), 1940 July

Telegram to Anna-Mukhamedov from J. Stalin authorizing, on behalf of the TsK VKP(b), the arrest of all Afghan citizensfound guilty and stating that the situation re the Afghan Consul would be solved through diplomatic channels, 1937 July 25

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from Anna-Mukhamedov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) of Turkmenistan, informing Stalin about a nationalistic insurgent organization involved in espionage on behalf of British intelligence and requesting the arrest of 23 Afghan citizens and of the Afghan consul in Merv associated with the organization (the telegram has Stalin's annotation authorizing the arrest of the Afghan citizens); magnified last page of the telegram, with Stalin's handwritten annotation, 1937 July 23

Ciphered telegram to A. Andreev, Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Saratovskaia oblast, from J. Stalin approving Andreev's proposal re a court trial and execution of former MTS (Machine and Tractor Station) employees, 1937 July

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from L. Mirzoian, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Kazakhstan, requesting authorization to arrest Kulumbetov, former Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of Kazakhstan, with Stalin's handwritten annotation authorizing the arrest, 1937 July

Ciphered telegram to A. Andreev from J. Stalin re a resolution of the TsK VKP(b) authorizing the arrest of leaders of the Betbruder (Brothers in Praying) religious sect of Povolzhie Germans (living in the Volga area), the replacement of native Germans in the personnel of the Povolzhie ChK (Extraordinary Commission) with native Russians, and Andreev's business trip to Moscow, 1937 August

Ciphered telegram to secretaries of VKP(b) committees in krais and oblasts and to secretaries of the central committees of national communist parties from J. Stalin directing that they organize in each oblast two or three show trials of "enemies of the people who work in agriculture"; identical telegram with Stalin's amendments, corrections, and signature, 1937 August

Ciphered telegram to P. Postyshev from J. Stalin and V. Molotov canceling Postyshev's telegram to districts about using milk cows to transport sheaves to grain stacks and about dismantling public buildings for materials to cover the stacks, 1937 August

Ciphered telegram to U. Ashurov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tadzhikistan, from J. Stalin informing Ashurov that the TsK can approve neither the first nor the second candidate to be elected as chairman of the Central Executive Committee Tadzhikistan and suggesting postponement of the elections, 1937 August

Ciphered telegram from J. Stalin and V. Molotov (with handwritten amendments and Stalin's and Molotov's signatures) to the central committees of the national communist parties, to the VKP(b) committees in krais and oblasts, to Councils of People's Commissars of the republics, to the executive committees in krais and oblasts, to the authorized representatives of the Committee for Procurement of the USSR Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) in republics, krais and oblasts, to the chiefs of Zagotzerno (Grain Procurement - Zagotovka zerna) bureaus in republics, krais, and oblasts, informing them of the arrest of I. Kleiner, Chairman of the Committee for Procurements of the USSR Sovnarkom, and directing that all possible measures be taken to ensure successful procurement of grain, to inspect the work of the Committee for Procurement, and to punish severely those attending to interfere with the bread procurement, 1937 August

Ciphered telegram to L. Beria, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, from J. Stalin approving Beria's report, show trials of N. Lakoba and Z. Lordkipanidze, and convocation of an expanded plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, 1937 August

Ciphered telegram to S. Korotchenkov, Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Smolenskaia oblast, from J. Stalin advising him to sentence to death saboteurs from the Andreevskii raion and to publish the news of their execution in the local press, 1937 August

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin and V. Molotov from S. A. Kudriavtsev, Secretary of the Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine in Kievskaia oblast (obkom), re organization of show trials in Kievskaia oblast and re his request to authorize a trial of officials from procurement agencies (with the signatures of Molotov and Kaganovich approving the request), 1937 September

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from P. Postyshev informing Stalin about the "counterrevolutionary conversation" held by Filippov, former Chief of the Penza Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD), and requesting authorization for Filippov's arrest (with Stalin's handwritten authorization), 1937 September

Ciphered telegram (with Stalin's amendments and signature, Molotov's signature, and voting record of top party officials) to all secretaries of VKP(b) committees in oblasts and krais and of central committees of national republics, and to all chairmen of councils of people's commissars and of executive committees in krais and oblasts, directing that every republic, krai, and oblast organize three to six show trials of "enemies of the people" guilty of sabotage in animal husbandry, that the trials be conducted in the presence of the peasant massesand with intensive coverage in the press, and that the defendants be sentenced to death, 1937 October

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from V. Molotov informing him that artillery and money ($100,000) requested by N. Zachariadis, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, were sent to him, and that foreign footwear and clothing requested by Zachariadis were not available, 1947 September

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from V. Molotov suggesting a negative response to the request from the American ambassador that American senators be allowed to visit the US Embassy in the Soviet Union and engage in sightseeing in Moscow, and that the senators be denied entrance visas for the second time (with Stalin's handwritten annotation approving Molotov's proposal), 1947 September

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from V. Molotov informing Stalin that Molotov had to invite KH. Choybalsan for lunch in return for Choybalsan's dinner and that the warning to Choybalsan about "his weak point" would be sent via his physicians, 1947 September

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from V. Molotov suggesting approval of Vyshinskii's proposal to oppose appearance of Greek émigrés at the UN General Assembly because it might establish a precedent for Polish, Yugoslav, Bulgarian, and Hungarian émigrés, 1947 October

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and to J. Stalin from V. Balitskii, Chairman of the Politburo Commission for the Passport System and for Relieving Cities of Unwanted Elements, submitting draft resolutions of the Central Executive Committee (TsIK) of the Soviets of Peoples' Deputies and the Council of People's Commissars related to establishment of the passport system, 1932 November

Extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal of L. Trotsky to agree temporarily to the participation of clergy in Pomgol (Pomoshch golodaiushchim - Famine Relief) in connection with the confiscation of valuables from the church; copy of the protocol of the meeting re the campaign for the confiscation of valuables from the church in order to raise money to help the starving people of Povolzhie, with cover letter to V. Molotov from R. Yezerskaia, Secretary of the Presidium of the State Political Directorate (GPU) of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD); appeal to all believers from Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and of Russia, expressing his disapproval of the confiscation of valuables from churches, with cover letter to V. Molotov from R. Yezerskaia, 1922 March

Protocol no. 1 of the meeting of the Commission for the Confiscation of Church Valuables re the competence of the Commission, transportation, storing, packaging material, instructions to the commissions in gubernias and uezds, personnel, posters, scales to weigh valuables, oral propaganda and publications, payment for valuables, participation of believers in Pomgol (Famine Relief), and housing for clergy (copy very poor, the first page practically illegible), 1922 March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo approving (with amendments) Trotsky's draft directive on the confiscation of valuables from churches; Trotsky's draft directive on secret guiding commissions for confiscation of valuables as well as official commissions of committees for famine relief, on the members of the central commission, and on propaganda and agitation, 1922 March

Ciphered telegram to all RKP(b) committees in gubernias and oblasts and RKP(b) bureaus in oblasts suspending temporarily the confiscation of valuables from churches because of complications and directing that more effort be put into education of the population and into agitation, 1922 March

Report to a secretary of the TsK RKP(b)(name not indicated) from N. Muralov, Commander of the Moscow Military District, re his departure to the city of Shuia, 1922 March

Cover letter to Molotov from an unidentified sender in State Political Directorate (GPU) of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) (document illegible); ciphered telegram to the GPU and to M. Kalinin from Bulatov, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Smolenskaia oblast, re a failed attempt (owing to the resistance of believers) to begin the confiscation of valuables from the Smolensk cathedral; cover letter to Molotov from an unidentified sender in the GPU NKVD accompanying a copy of the report on clerical activity related to the confiscation of valuables; the report; ciphered telegram to the TsK RKP(b) from the Secretary of the RKP(b) Committee of Kaluzhskaia gubernia (gubkom) re a three-day strike of plant workers and unrest among workers in connection with the confiscation of valuables from churches owing to the activities of Patriarch Tikhon, 1922 March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) re clerical activity connected with the confiscation of valuables from churches; attachment to the minutes establishing policy toward the clergy (arrest of the Patriarch and Synod, arrest and trial by the tribunal of clergymen and others responsible for the unrest in Shuia and execution of their leaders, organizing a show trial of priests accused of stealing church valuables, mass publicizing of data on clerical uprisings in Smolensk, Petrograd, and other cities, and starting forced massive confiscation of valuables from churches all over the country); handwritten memorandum to V. Molotov from T. Sapronov requesting thatTrotsky's response to the confiscation of valuables be discussed at a Politburo meeting and that Sapronov himself be called to the Politburo discussion on the GPU (with Molotov's handwritten statement on the date of the Politburo re the GPU); report on clerical activity related to the confiscation of valuables (identical to that of file 6 of this opis), with cover letter to all Politburo members and L. Trotsky from R. Yezerskaia, Secretary of the Presidium of the State Political Directorate (GPU) of the NKVD, 1922 March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving L. Trotsky's proposals on the confiscation of church valuables; list of Trotsky's proposals addressed to all members of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo and to V. Lenin, J. Stalin, L. Kamenev, G. Zinoviev, and V. Molotov, with cover letter from M. Burakova, 1922 March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving practical proposals for the confiscation of church valuables to be presented at the meeting of the secretaries of VKP(b) committees and of chairmen of executive committees in gubernias; minutes of the Don RKP(b) Committee denouncing the work of the Commission for the Confiscation of Church Valuables and demanding that repressive measures be taken against those opposing the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) Decree and inciting counterrevolutionary uprisings and armed insurgents against Soviet power; minutes of the Commission for the Confiscation of Church Valuables in Moscow re shortcomings in propaganda and agitation work and proposals for their improvement, 1922 March

Memorandum to M. Kalinin and V. Molotov, members of the Politburo, from L. Trotsky re his concern that the Politburo decision to appropriate a million gold rubles for bread to be delivered to famine victims was not implemented and suggesting that one or two trains with bread be sent to the Volga area (with Molotov's handwritten annotation), 1922 March

Ciphered telegram to all executive committees and VKP(b) committees in gubernias from M. Kalinin, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, and V. Molotov, Secretary of the TsK RKP(b), directing that priests be punished for robberies and thefts from churches, that "rich churches" be protected appropriately, and that valuable church furnishing be replaced by less valuable furnishing removed from other churches and monasteries, 1922 April

Ciphered telegram to all RKP(b) committees in gubernias (gubkoms) and departments of the State Political Directorate (GPU) in krais directing that they inform the TsK and the GPU about any persons sent to their krais in charge of policy toward the church, 1922 April

Ciphered telegram to all RKP(b) committees in gubernias (gubkoms) (copy to executive committees in gubernias) directing that loyal clergy calling on believers to obey the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) Decree on the confiscation of church valuables be supported, 1922 April

Extract from the minutes of the RKP(b) Politburo directing that the Organizational Bureau select two assistants to L. Trotsky to work in the Commission for the Confiscation of Church Valuables; extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo appointing A. Bubnov and Pashkevich as Trotsky's assistants and recalling Pashkevich from his work in the Petrograd VKP(b) organization; extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo replacing Bubnov with N. Popov as Trotsky's assistant, 1922 May

Extract from the minutes of the RKP(b) Politburo characterizing the campaign for the confiscation of valuables as slow and inefficient and reprimanding all participants in the campaign, 1922 May

Extract from the minutes of the Bureau of the Central Commission for the Confiscation of Church Valuables re the slow rate of confiscation of valuables in the RSFSR and suggesting that the TsK reprimand those RKP(b) committees in gubernias (gubkoms) with slow rate of confiscation of valuables; list of the territories of Russia and Belorussia where the confiscation of valuables from churches is going slowly and where valuables are getting stolen (very bad copy and original); list of additional territories where the confiscation of valuables is slow, 1922 May

Extract from the minutes of the RKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal of L. Trotsky and reprimanding M. Kalinin and A. Yenukidze for slow implementation of the resolution of the Politburo and directing that they implement it the same day; memorandum to the TsK RKP(b) Politburo from Trotsky proposing to postpone the convocation of the church Synod for two or three months to observe the struggle between different trends in the church that would weaken or destroy the church; memorandum to the TsK RKP(b) Politburo from Trotsky with analysis of the situation in the Russian church and with his conclusions to be presented at the meeting of secretaries of RKP(b) committees and of chairmen of executive committees in gubernias, 1922 March 1922 May

Memorandum to R. Karklin (Directorate for Currency of the USSR People's Commissariat of Finance) from S. Kuznetsov, Ukrainian People's Commissar of Finance, requesting that a representative be sent to the talks on valuables confiscated from the Kievo-Pecherskaia Lavra (Monastery) and transferred to the Ukrainian Children's Relief Commission by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukrain, 1925 February

Extract from the minutes of the RKP(b) Politburo postponing for a week a decision re valuables from the Kievo-Pecherskaia Lavra (Monastery); memorandum to the TsK RKP(b) from N. Briukhanov, USSR Deputy People's Commissar of Finance, and R. Karklin, Deputy Chief of the Directorate for Currency of the USSR People's Commissariat of Finance, expressing disapproval of the decision adopted by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine to transfer to the Ukrainian Children's Relief Commission valuables, in the form of metal and foreign currency, that were hidden in the monastery by persons who escaped abroad, 1925 February

Extract from the minutes of the RKP(b) Politburo authorizing the spending of all valuables found in the Kievo-Pecherskaia Lavra (Monastery) on famine victims and children in the Ukraine, 1925 February

Handwritten note to I. Tovstukha, secretary of J. Stalin, from A. Likhachev, secretary of IE. Yaroslavskii, submitting the article by M. Olminskii; Olminskii's article proposing to remove Kremlin bells and to cast "useful things" out of the bells and of hundreds of French cannon captured in 1812, to rename the Kremlin gates, and to transform the Cathedral of Christ the Savior into a museum; Olminskii's note to the editorial board stating that he has brought up the question for the third time because it was twice turned down by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK), 1930 January 1930 February

Cover letter to the TsK VKP(b) from S. Bochin, Chief of the Department of Classified Materials of the Administration of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars, submitting a copy of a ciphered telegram signed by D. Sulimov, Chairman of the RSFSR Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), and sent to the chairmen of executive committees in krais and oblasts and to the councils of people's commissars in autonomous republics and oblasts; the ciphered letter canceling the Sovnarkom directive of November 14, 1930, about confiscation of church bells, 1930 December

Memorandum to D. Sulimov, Chairman of the RSFSR Council of People's Commissars, V. Chubar, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukraine, N. Goloded, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Belorussia, and I. Pavlunovskii (Higher Council of the People's Economy - VSNKh) canceling proposals of the VSNKh to remove bells from churches in cities in which bell-ringing is prohibited, 1930 December

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and to J. Stalin from L. Beria, Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, reporting a failed attempt by local authorities to remove bells in a village of Chernaia Zavod of Yaroslavskaia oblast and blaming the local authorities for the incident, with J. Stalin's handwritten note to Malenkov, directing that he look into the situation and report the results, 1938 September

Report to J. Stalin from G. Malenkov, Chief of the TsK VKP(b) Department of Leading Party Organs, on the incident in the village of Chernaia Zavod confirming Beria's conclusions (see file 24 of this opis), with a cover letter to A. Poskrebyshev [Stalin's secretary]; resolution of the VKP(b) Committee of Yaroslavskaia oblast (obkom) canceling the previous resolution of the executive committee of the oblast re the procedure for bronze bell procurement, making those guilty accountable to the party and law and specifying NKVD measures to "remove hostile elements" responsible for resistance to the bell confiscation, 1938 October

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo directing that the Ministry of Finance (A. Kosygin) provide 500,000 Japanese yen to F. Kuznetsov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Information of the USSR Council of Ministers, for special purposes, 1948 November

Memorandum to J. Stalin from V. Grigorian, Chairman of the Foreign Political Commission of the TsK VKP(b), re a request of Nosaka, member of the Politburo of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), for financial assistance to the JCP; draft response to Nosaka's request ciphered by the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), 1949 November

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a request of the Japanese Communist Party for financial assistance, directing that the Ministry of Finance provide $100,000 to V. Grigorian, Chairman of the Foreign Political Commission of the TsK VKP(b), for special purposes, and putting the Committee for Information (V. Zorin) in charge of the money transfer, 1951 June

Memorandum to J. Stalin from V. Zorin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, re a successful secret transfer of $100,000 received from Chinese friends to a representative of the Japanese Communist Party, 1951 September

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a request of the Japanese Communist Party for financial assistance in 1952 and directing that $300,000 be withdrawn from the account of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions and transferred to the Japanese Communist Party via Ministry of State Security (MGB) channels, 1952 February

Receipt (translated into Russian) for $100,000 received by Omura (Japanese Communist Party) from a representative [of the USSR]; original receipt (in Japanese), 1952 September

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Peking Bureau of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party requesting $300,000 (in addition to $200,000 transferred by the KPSS in December 1954) and the dispatch of five or six interpreters with good knowledge of the Japanese language and of the essentials of Marxism-Leninism, and of Comrade I. Kalinin (to help with the work of a political school and of the Voice of Free Japan radio station); original memorandum (in Japanese), 1955 January

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party confirming its agreement to transfer between $200,000 and $300,000 from the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations via Chinese channels; original memorandum (in Chinese), 1955 April

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a request of the Peking Bureau of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) for financial assistance in 1955 and the transfer of $250,000 to the JCP from the account of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions, directing that the money be transferred via the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP), and approving a letter to the CC CCP; the letter to the CC CCP from N. Khrushchev, Secretary of the TsK KPSS, 1955 April

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving financial assistance to the Japanese Communist Party ($50,000) from the account of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, putting N. Fedorenko, Soviet Ambassador to Japan, in charge of the money transfer, and approving the text of a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Japan, 1958 October

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium acknowledging the expediency of providing the Japanese Communist Party with financial assistance ($50,000) in 1959 (to be paid from the account of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations), and putting N. Fedorenko, Soviet Ambassador to Japan, in charge of the money transfer, 1959 September

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium acknowledging the expediency of providing the Japanese Communist Party with financial assistance ($100,000) in 1960, putting the Committee for State Security (A. Shelepin) in charge of the money transfer, and directing that the JCP be informed that the assistance was provided by the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, 1960 December

Memorandum [to the TsK KPSS] from S. Nosaka, Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), requesting financial assistance ($150,000 to $200,000) in 1962 for the JPC election campaign to the upper chamber of the parliament and for construction of buildings of the Central Committee and of the party school; the original memorandum (in Japanese), 1961 November

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium acknowledging the expediency of providing the Japanese Communist Party with financial assistance ($150,000) in 1962, putting the KGB (V. Semichastnyi) in charge of the money transfer, and directing that the JCP be informed that the assistance was provided by the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, 1961 December

Brief handwritten note (unsigned) confirming the transfer of 28,785,000 yen to S. Nosaka, Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party, and the execution of the instruction to transfer to the JCP the full amount of 53,785,000 yen; original receipt (in English) for 28,785,000 yen signed by S. Nosaka, 1962 August-September

Brief handwritten note (unsigned) confirming the transfer of 28,785,000 yen to S. Nosaka, Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party, and the execution of the instruction to transfer to the JCP the full amount of 53,785,000 yen; original receipt (in English) for 28,785,000 yen signed by S. Nosaka, 1962 August-September

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium acknowledging the expediency of providing the Japanese Communist Party with financial assistance ($150,000) in 1963, putting the KGB (V. Semichastnyi) in charge of the money transfer, and directing that the JCP be informed that the assistance was provided by the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, 1963 February

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS (for the International Department) from V. Semichastnyi, Chairman of the KGB, stating that a KGB representative saw S. Hakamada, member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), and delivered 17,928,280 yen to him, and that Hakamada requested that the same amount of money be delivered to the JCP in two months, 1963 May

Memorandum to B. Ponomarev from A. Sakharovskii, Chairman of the 1st Main Directorate of the KGB, stating that a KGB representative saw S. Hakamada, member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), and delivered 17,928,200 yen ($50,000) to him, and that Hakamada requested that the rest of the money be delivered to the JCP in September, 1963 June

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Semichastnyi, Chairman of the Committee for State Security, re circulation of a large number of anonymous anti-Soviet documents (including those sent abroad to anti-Soviet radio stations and bourgeois newspapers) as compared with the first six months of 1961, 1962 July

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving the proposals forwarded by the Committee for State Security (V. Semichastnyi) in the memorandum of December 26, 1962 (not included), 1963 February

Memorandum to L. Brezhnev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re all aspects of work conducted by the KGB and its local organs in 1967 and re establishment of the 5th Directorate to oppose ideological actions of the enemy, 1968 May

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re activity of KGB organs to stop state crime during six months of 1980; note from K. Bogomolov, dispatching the memorandum to Politburo members and to N. Savinkin, 1980 August

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re selection of KPSS, Soviet, and VLKSM (All-Union Young Communists League) workers to be trained to occupy leading positions in organs of the Committee for State Security (KGB); list of republics, krais, and oblasts that will in 1983 send KPSS, Soviet, and VLKSM workers (with the number of workers to be sent from each republic, krai, and oblast) to the two-year Course for Training Leading Specialists attached to the KGB Higher School, 1982 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving proposals of the Committee for State Security (KGB) re selection of cadres for the KGB and directing that the TsK KPSS departments assist the KGB in 1986-1990 in selecting appropriate specialists for KGB organs; table of organizations, ministries, and departments from which the specialists for the KGB will be selected (with the number of workers to be sent by each organization, ministry, and department in every year), 1985 September

Report to the TsK KPSS and M. Gorbachev from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the KGB, on the work done by the Committee for State Security (KGB) in 1985, 1986 February

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the KGB, re an all-union conference of the leading personnel of the KGB organs and KGB troops; greeting to the TsK KPSS from the participants in the conference; brief note transmitting the memorandum to the members and candidate members of the TsK KPSS Politburo and to the TsK KPSS secretaries, 1986 May-June

Report to the TsK KPSS and M. Gorbachev from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), on the work done by the KGB in 1986, 1987 January

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the KGB, summarizing KGB activity on the investigation of authors of anti-Soviet anonymous materials in 1986, 1987 February

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the KGB, re measures to strengthen the security of the KPSS and government leaders, 1987 March

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), summarizing KGB activity on the prevention of terrorist actions on USSR territory, 1988 January

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the KGB, summarizing KGB investigation of authors of anti-Soviet anonymous materials in 1985, 1986 March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the appointment of General L. Shebarshin as Deputy Chairman of the KGB and Chief of the 1st Main Directorate of the KGB, 1989 February

Report to the TsK KPSS and M. Gorbachev from V. Kriuchkov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), on the work done by the KGB in 1988, 1989 February

Report to M. Gorbachev, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet, from V. Kriuchkov, Chairman of the KGB, on the work done by the Committee for State Security in 1989, 1990 February

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo putting K. Voroshilov, L. Kaganovich, and L. P. Smirnov in charge of making a final decision on the play Beg (The Flight) by M. Bulgakov; political analyses of the play, 1929 January

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a proposal of the TsK KPSS Politburo commission not to stage the play Beg (The Flight) by M. Bulgakov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS Politburo and J. Stalin from K. Voroshilov stating that the members of the commission considered production of Beg inexpedient, 1929 January

Protocol no. 3 of the meeting of an ad hoc group on problems related to the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with a list of the members of the group and of those invited to the meeting, and with the following agenda: medical services to the accident victims, dispatch to Chernobyl of a second team from the Governmental Commission, press conference for foreign journalists, dispatch of Soviet journalists to the area affected by the accident, progress of decontamination in the areas neighboring the Chernobyl nuclear power station, refusal of Austrian workers and specialists employed in construction of a metallurgical plant in Gomelskaia oblast to continue their work, and press release for the Soviet press, 1986 May

Protocol no. 8 of the meeting of an ad hoc group on problems related to the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with a list of the members of the group (including M. Gorbachev) and of those invited to the meeting, and with the following agenda: radioactive situation in the European part of the USSR, treatment of accident victims, stay in the USSR of H. Blix, General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), purchase of necessary materials and equipment abroad, situation at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, progress of decontamination there, and draft appeal to be issued by the TsK KPSS, the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, the USSR Council of Ministers, and the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, 1986 May

Protocol no. 9 of the meeting of an ad hoc group on problems related to the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with a list of the members of the group and of those invited to the meeting, and with the following agenda: radioactive situation in the European part of the USSR, hospitalization and treatment of accident victims, progress of decontamination at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, television appearance of A. Vorobiev and IE. Gogin, TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) report re limitation by foreign countries of imports of some Soviet goods, manufacture of chemical materials required for handling the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, progress of decontamination, the next governmental report, some proposals of Shcherbina (installation of a governmental high frequency communication line for each nuclear power station, measures to increase safety of operating nuclear power stations, etc.), 1986 May

Protocol no. 10 of the meeting of an ad hoc group on problems related to the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with a list of the members of the group and of those invited to the meeting, and with the following agenda: radioactive situation in the European part of the USSR, hospitalization and treatment of accident victims, progress of decontamination at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, design of the project for isolating the failed power block in the Chernobyl nuclear power station, measures for securing safety of power blocks 1, 2, and 3 of the Chernobyl nuclear power station and of other power stations, 1986 May

Statement on the radioactive situation and radioactive contamination of the environment as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with a cover letter to N. Ryzhkov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), 1986 May

Protocol no. 21 of the meeting of an ad hoc group on problems related to the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with a list of the members of the group and of those invited to the meeting, and with the following agenda: measures taken by the Ministry of Power Engineering and Electrification, and the Ministry of Medium Machine Building to secure the safety of the operating nuclear stations and to avoid shortcomings in these projects, draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers re measures to close down the facilities of theChernobyl nuclear power station affected by the accident on the Fourth power block and to prevent flow of contaminated water from the area, draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers and the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions re the salary and supplies for employees of enterprises, organizations, and institutions appointed to handle the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and to protect the environment from contamination, draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re establishment of the Directorate for Constructions of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building; directives to participants in the next press conference for Soviet and foreign journalists; directives on press coverage of the main questions related to the Chernobyl nuclear accident and to the progress in handling the aftermath of the failure of the Fourth power block of the Chernobyl nuclear power station; report on radioactivity and on progress in handling the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident (materials prepared for the press conference), 1986 June

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo directing that financial assistance be rendered via KGB channels to the Communist Party of Bolivia ($30,000), the Paraguayan Communist Party ($30,000), the National Liberation Front of Bolivia ($20,000), the Congress of Struggle for Independence of Madagascar ($8,000), the People's Democratic Party of Sudan (10,000 pounds sterling), and the National Congress of Sierra Leone (500 pounds sterling), 1966 June

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo directing that financial assistance via KGB channels be rendered to the leader of the Marxist group of the National Revolutionary Movement of Congo (Brazzaville) ($5,000); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, reporting that the money was delivered to A. Numazalai(?), that he asked for more assistance ($100,000), and proposing, in the event that Numazalai's request was approved, to deliver the money gradually in order to avoid suspicion by the authorities; letter (translated into Russian) from Numazalai(?), 1968 January-February

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo directing that financial assistance be rendered via KGB channels to the Spanish Communist Party ($120,000), the Communist Party of Denmark ($90,000), the Guatemalan Party of Labor ($65,000), the Lebanese Communist Party ($50,000), the Union of Peoples of Kenya ($50,000), the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ($25,000), the Socialist Working People's Party of Nigeria ($45,000), and the National Congress of Sierra Leone (15,000 pound sterling), 1968 March

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a proposal of the International Department re establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations for 1969 ($16,550,000), the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000), and the contribution of each participating party, and directing that the International Department inform the leaders of the participating parties of the 1968 expenditures, 1969 January

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re training new radio operators from the Italian Communist Party (ICP), re practical measures to organize ciphered radio communication between the ICP and the Committee for State Security (KGB), re free delivery by the KGB of five radio stations, two receiving devices, and special ciphering documents to support a secret communication line with the ICP, and re supply of one radio transmitter with two exciters and one amplifier to Bulgaria, 1970 August

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re urgent underground delivery by the Committee for State Security (KGB) of weapons to the Progressive Party of the Working People of Cyprus (AKEL), at the request of E. Papaiannou, General Secretary of the AKEL, 1974 July

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re supply of weapons to Syria at the request of the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) and upon the approval of Syrian partners; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Lebanon to pass on to the General Secretary of the LCP information re the weapons to be supplied to the LCP; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Syria to transmit to H. Shehabi information about the weapons for Lebanon to be delivered to Syria, 1975 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov re exchange with North Vietnam of arms made in the USSR for captured arms made in capitalist countries, 1975 December

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo directing that the Ministry of Foreign Trade sell to the Italian company Interexpo unrefined oil and diesel fuel on favorable terms so that the company can make a profit of $4,000,000 from the deal, 1983 January

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving instructions to the Soviet ambassador to North Vietnam, approving a one-time financial gift of $2,000 to General Kong Le (Laos); the instructions to the Soviet ambassador to North Vietnam to transmit to a representative of the Laotian Patriotic Front (NLHX) information about Kong Le's willingness to return to Laos and to lead the neutralists' armed forces; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev and A. Gromyko re Kong Le's proposals and re his request for financial assistance, 1968 January

Eleven lists of positions in the area of education included in the nomenklatura of the Department of Registration and Appointments of the TsK VKP(b)(the Socialist Academy, the Institute of Red Professors, the Sverdlov University, the KUTV (Communist University of Workers of the East), the Communist University for National Minorities of the West, the Academy of Social Education(?), the editorial boards of newspapers and magazines, the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, the People's Commissariat of Education (Narkompross) and its main committees, the Central Committee of Proletkult (Proletarian Culture), the higher educational institutions and "rabfaks" [workers' schools]), 1924 January-February

Table of the availability of party cadres as of January 1, 1919, in gubernias and at the front, indicating the length of service, profession, education, and class status of the party members (with handwritten note by S. Uralov stating that the work had been done by him at the request of IA. Sverdlov, that the amendments with red ink were done by Sverdlov, and that Sverdlov could not use the table because of his death), 1919 January

List of leading positions in party, Soviet, trade union, and cooperative apparatuses subject to registration by party organs (according to the resolution of the All-Russian Conference of the heads of registration departments on February 9-11, 1923); list of positions in the districts subject to registration; cover letter from the Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninizm of September 1985, 1923 February

Holograph note to I. Piatnitskii from B. Kantorovich, Administrator of the Administration of Affairs of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (NKID), re transfer (at the request of G. Chicherin and L. Karakhan) of valuables withdrawn from the People's Bank to E. Shelepina, wife of A. Ransome (both left for Great Britain); receipt for six packages of diamonds, and one package of pearls (total price 1,039,000 rubles) received by B. Kantorovich for the NKID; Shelepina's receipt for diamonds and pearls, 1922 October

Document on transfer of precious silver, gold, and metal ware from Gokhran (state holdings) to a representative of the Comintern (Communist International), 1922 April

List of valuables and currency transferred in 1919-1920 to representatives of communist and leftist movements of Europe and America via the Comintern (Communist International) compiled on the basis of receipts kept in the archives of Comrade Krumin (or before), 1920 June

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re information delivered by V. Dolgikh about the Chernobyl nuclear accident, measures to address the aftermath of the accident, and measures to provide jobs, food, and shelter to the population evacuated from the Chernobyl zone, re analyses of the causes of the accident and of measures to prevent accidents at the currently operating nuclear stations, and re media reports; press release prepared by the USSR Council of Ministers for the media, 1986 April

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on the measures to address the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident: establishing an ad hoc group, appointing its members, and setting goals, submitting information to the Soviet public, leaders of fraternal parties, and the governments of European countries, the United States, and Canada; press release for the Soviet press issued by the USSR Council of Ministers; instructions to the Soviet ambassadors to socialist countries re information to be released to the leaders of fraternal parties; brief note to TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) from A. Lukianov re the dates for release of the report on the accident to television and the press, 1986 April

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on the progress in addressing the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and on measures to increase the effectiveness of the process; text of an oral message to M. Gorbachev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from President R. Reagan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze, Minister of Foreign Affairs, re reaction of foreign countries to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, their inquiries, and proposals for assistance; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the KGB, re reaction to the accident of foreign diplomats in Moscow; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze, re reaction of foreign leadership, the public, and the media to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, possible claims for indemnity, fear of foreign countries to continue trading with the Soviet Union, criticism of the Soviet regime in the foreign press, etc., and re Shevardnadze's proposals for measures to improve the situation, 1986 April-May

Letter (translated into Russian) to M. Gorbachev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from B. Craxi, President of Italy, with expression of sympathy and proposal for assistance; original letter (in Italian), 1986 May

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, re voluntary donation of money offered by the Soviet public as assistance in addressing the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1986 May

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Gubarev, Editor for the Department of Science of Pravda (Truth) newspaper, re his trip to Chernobyl on May 4-9, 1986, and his criticism of insufficient protection of the population from radioactivity, 1986 May

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze, Minister of Foreign Affairs, re the proposal of A. Hammer (American businessman) to organize a visit to the USSR of M. Culler,President of the Electric Power Research Institute, who would assist Soviet scholars in evaluating the Chernobyl accident and investigating its causes, and re Hammer's request that M. Gorbachev meet Dr. R. Gale (American physician) and his colleagues for a short conversation and that Gorbachev attend the opening of Hammer's art show in Moscow; original letter (in English) to M. Gorbachev from A. Hammer, 1986 May

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on problems related to the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1986 June

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on a response to a proposal from Israel; voting record of Politburo members; IE. Ligachev's brief note sending documents to Politburo members for their vote; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze suggesting that the Soviet government reject the Israeli proposal to send specialists in bone marrow transplants; letter (translated into Russian) to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the Dutch Embassy in the Soviet Union transmitting a message to the Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet from Israeli President C. Herzog, 1986 May-June

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers on the procedure for compensating the population evacuated from the Chernobyl zone; list of localities from which the evacuated population is eligible for compensation; brief note sending the joint draft resolution to the TsK KPSS secretaries and Politburo members; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers; distribution list, 1986 June

Voting record of Politburo members on a press release re investigation of the mistakes that caused the Chernobyl nuclear accident; brief note from A. Lukianov sending the press release to Politburo members; the draft press release, with handwritten amendments, 1986 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on the results of investigation of the mistakes that caused the Chernobyl nuclear accident, on measures to address the aftermath of the accident, and on the safety of the atomic power industry, with a cover letter from an ad hoc group (N. Ryzhkov, IE. Ligachev, V. Vorotnikov, V. Chebrikov, V. Dolgikh, S. L. Sokolov, and A. V. Vlasov); voting record of Politburo members, 1986 July

Resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers on measures to provide jobs, housing, social services, and damage compensation to the population evacuated because of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers; list of localities from which the population would be eligible for evacuation in August-September 1986; list of localities from which the population had already been evacuated (the zone with a radiation level of 5-20 mr per hour as of May 10, 1986); table of capital investments to be appropriated to the Council of Ministers of the Ukraine and the Council of Ministers of Belorussia and to be spent on building new homes, fixing old ones, and building new cultural and social establishments, shopping centers, and public utilities for the population evacuated from the Chernobyl zone; list of materials, automobiles, and equipment transferred to the disposal of the Council of Ministers of the Ukraine and the Council of Ministers of Belorussia to provide housing and cultural and social services to the population evacuated from the Chernobyl zone; brief instruction transmitting the documents to Politburo members; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov, 1986 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers on measures to improve economic conditions of the population in localities where supplies of local agricultural products are limited because of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; the resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers; list of localities that are subject to limitation in the consumption of local food and of products from private plots, 1986 August

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on USSR participation in a special conference and in the 30th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and in the sessions of IAEA managers, with a distribution list; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze, V. Dolgikh, S. L. Sokolov, and L. Riabev, submitting a Program for Establishment of International Safety Measures in the Development of Nuclear Power Engineering to be presented at the special session of the IAEA General Conference (incomplete); the program, with handwritten amendments, 1986 September

Two identical voting records of Politburo members; two identical resolutions of the TsK KPSS re signing by the Ukraine and Belorussia of the convention on prompt notification in the event of nuclear accidents and the convention on mutual assistance in the event of nuclear accidents; Ligachev's brief note transmitting the resolution to Politburo members; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Dolgikh, A. Kovalev, and L. Riabev, 1986 September

Voting record of Politburo members; two identical resolutions of the TsK KPSS on awarding the Hero of the Soviet Union title to Major L. Teliatnikov, Lieutenant V. Kibenok, and Lieutenant V. Pravik for their work in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet re the award for L. Teliatnikov; decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet re the awards of V. Kibenok and V. Pravik; brief note transmitting the documents to Politburo members for voting; memorandum to the TsK KPSS (incomplete and unsigned); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shcherbitskii, Secretary of the CentralCommittee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, recommending state awards to firemen for exceptional performance extinguishing the fire at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 1986 August-September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on the implementation of the TsK KPSS resolution of July 14, 1986, On Results of the Investigation of the Course of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, on Measures to be Taken to Handle the Aftermath of the Accident, and on Safety Measures in Nuclear Power Engineering ; brief note transmitting the resolution to Politburo members; distribution list for the resolution; list of KPSS and governmental authorities and organizations and of KPSS and governmental leaders the resolution should be sent to; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Dolgikh, V. Frolyshev, N. Shakhov, and V. Pimenov about the investigation of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; distribution list for the memorandum, 1986 September-October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers on the construction of a new city for permanent residence of the personnel of the Chernobyl nuclear plant; the resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers; Ligachev's brief note requesting that the resolution be transmitted to Politburo members and candidate members and TsK KPSS secretaries; distribution list for the memorandum from IE. Ligachev, G. Aliev, V. Dolgikh, and IU. Batalin, for the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, and for the resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers (with attachments); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Ligachev, G. Aliev, V. Dolgikh, and IU. Batalin, 1986 September-October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on the results of the conference on improvement in safety of nuclear power engineering held by the countries participating in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Ligachev's brief note requesting that the resolution be transmitted to Politburo members and candidate members and TsK KPSS secretaries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Ligachev and V. Dolgikh re participation of the Soviet delegation in the conference; distribution list for the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and for the memorandum; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Legasov summarizing the information submitted by ministries and state committees to the conference of IAEA experts on the Chernobyl nuclear accident; brief note requesting that Legasov's memorandum be transmitted to Politburo members and candidate members and to TsK KPSS secretaries; distribution list for Legasov's memorandum; brief handwritten note to I. Yastrebov, 1986 September-October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on a letter to the TsK KPSS from a group of people involved in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, denouncing the government for poor medical treatment and insufficient financial and social support to the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accidentthe letter to V. Afanasiev, Editor in Chief of Pravda (Truth) newspaper and a member of the TsK KPSS, from people who participated in extinguishing the fire at the Chernobyl nuclear plant and suffer from leukemia, 1986 October

Resolution of the TsK KPSS directing that the Ukraine and Belorussia ratify the convention on prompt notification in the event of nuclear accidents and the convention on mutual assistance in the event of nuclear or radioactive accidents; voting record of the TsK KPSS Politburo members; brief instruction to transmit the resolution to Politburo members; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze, V. Dolgikh, and L. Riabev, 1986 November-December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on progress in addressing the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; voting record of Politburo members; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from an ad hoc group re the situation at the Chernobyl nuclear plant; brief note transmitting the resolution to Politburo members for voting; distribution list for the resolution, the memorandum, and the text of a press release (not included); list of KPSS and governmental organizations and officials the documents should be sent to; two pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear plant and of the city of Pripiat(?), 1986 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re appropriations from the reserve of the USSR Council of Ministers to cover expenditures in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident; voting record of Politburo members; the directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; brief note transmitting the document to Politburo members; eleven memoranda to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov (differently formatted, each with a vote of one Politburo member), 1986 December

Two identical voting records of Politburo members; resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze, V. Dolgikh, L. Riabev, N. Lukonin, and V. Malyshev re proposal from H. Blix, Director of the IAEA, that the USSR invite a group of international experts in safety measures in nuclear power plants; brief note sending documents to Politburo members; said memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Shevardnadze, Dolgikh, Riabev, Lukonin, and Malyshev; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Austria requesting that he inform H. Blix that the Soviet authorities are considering his proposal; eight copies of the first page of the said memorandum (each with a vote of one Politburo member), 1986 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on progress in addressing the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and on safety measures in power engineering; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov and V. Dolgikh; brief note transmitting the documents to Politburo members and candidate members and to TsK KPSS secretaries, 1987 March-April

Resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a list of propaganda measures to commemorate the first anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; the list of measures, with handwritten corrections; two identical memoranda (one with holograph signatures of several Politburo members) to the ad hoc group from I. Yastrebov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, and IU. Skliarov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, submitting the list of measures; three brief holograph notes from Politburo members; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from B. Shcherbina submitting the list of propaganda measures in commemoration of the first anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; the list of propaganda measures; list of press publications, radio and television broadcasts, and TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) materials about measures taken in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident, about safety measures in nuclear power engineering, and about Soviet international initiatives aimed at freeing the world from nuclear weapons; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Kravchenko, First Deputy Chief of the USSR State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio), submitting proposals of Gosteleradio on the propaganda campaign related to the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1987 March-April

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on the development of nuclear power plants and nuclear safety measures; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov submitting the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers On Further Improvement in Design and Construction of Nuclear Power Plants, 1987 April-May

Appeal to M. Gorbachev from a group of Ukrainian intelligentsia expressing their concern over the Ukrainian environment because of the high concentration of nuclear power plants in the Ukraine and their protest against building new nuclear power stations or adding power blocks to existing stations, 1988 November

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re violations of design and technological standards during the construction of the Chernobyl nuclear plant and installation of equipment there; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Falaleev, Deputy Minister of Power Engineering and Electrification (Minenergo), summarizing the results of the investigation of design and technological standards violations at the construction site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant; directives to related organizations from Minenergo on improvement in the quality of construction and installation and on fire safety improvement at nuclear power plants; statement on the investigation of the quality of construction and installation of the first section of the Chernobyl nuclear plant signed by the members of an ad hoc commission; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Frolov, Chief of the Machine-Building Department, re shortcomingsin the construction of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 1979 February-March

Resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine re a recommendation for awards to workers for exceptional performance during construction of the first section of the Chernobyl nuclear plant; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Volskii, Deputy Chief of the Machine-Building Department, 1980 March 1980 May

Urgent report to the TsK KPSS from N. Neporozhnyi, Minister of Power Engineering and Electrification, on a fire at the construction site of block no. 3 of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 1981 September

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on the greetings from the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers to construction workers, installers, operators, designers, machine builders, and all other participants in the construction of the Fourth block of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, and on a recommendation to award orders and medals to the most distinguished workers; first page of the same resolution; the greetings, with handwritten amendments; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine and the Ministry of Power Engineering and Electrification to recommend awards to the most distinguished workers, 1984 March

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on serious problems re housing and living conditions of workers evacuated from the Chernobyl nuclear plant to the Zaporozhie nuclear plant (city of Energodar), with handwritten amendments; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Razumov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work, and I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering; brief memorandum to IE. Razumov and N. Strela from G. Razumovskii putting them in charge of investigation of petitions from workers residing in the city of Energodar; Ligachev's brief holograph; petition to the USSR Supreme Soviet from former workers of the Chernobyl nuclear plant evacuated to Energodar filing complaints against city authorities, with cover letters from A. Gromyko to the TsK KPSS and to M. Gorbachev; Lukianov's brief holograph note reporting on measures concerning the petition, 1986 June

Statement on the summary of extraordinary incidents of April 21-27, 1986, sent to the TsK KPSS by the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, undaated

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), re the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; map depicting the level of radioactive contamination of the Chernobyl area measured at a heightof 200 meters on April 27, 1986, between 12:30 and 2:30 p.m., 1986 April

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Vlasov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, submitting analyses of letters sent to M. Gorbachev by foreign citizens in connection with the Chernobyl nuclear accident; excerpts from telegrams addressed to M. Gorbachev, 1986 May

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on serious shortcomings in health care, medical treatment, and financial and social services rendered to workers of a number of ministries who were victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and its aftermath (with handwritten annotations); identical first page of the resolution; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, and K. Mogilnichenko, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from an ad hoc commission that investigated the problems brought up in the letter of a group of workers who participated in recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident; two brief notes of Ligachev, 1986 November-December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Grigoriev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, requesting approval of a proposal from the Ministry of Health on the inexpediency of dispatching Soviet specialists to the international conference on the Chernobyl nuclear accident to be held on July 8, 1986, in Los Angeles; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Burenkov, Minister of Health, 1986 July

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Skliarov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, re a press conference for Soviet and foreign journalists on assistance given to the population of Kievskaia and Gomelskaia oblasts, 1986 August

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Batalin re progress in recovery of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1986 September

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS (Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering) from E. Sizenko, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Agricultural Industry (Gosagroprom) and Minister, re utilization of agricultural products from the area affected by radioactive contamination, 1986 September

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. V. Vlasov, Minister of Internal Affairs, re measures to strengthen law and order and to maintain routine in the area of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 1986 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from M. Kovalev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Belorussia, re jobs, housing, andsocial and everyday services for the population evacuated from Gomelskaia oblast, 1986 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re utilization of various Western systems for protecting water resources from radioactive contamination, 1986 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), denouncing publications and broadcasts criticizing the Ministry of Health and related ministries for insufficient protection of the population from radioactivity; two handwritten notes (from A. N. Yakovlev to IU. Skliarov and to Yakovlev from V. Dolgikh), 1986 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Sizenko, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Agricultural Industry (Gosagroprom) and Minister, re decontamination and use of agricultural products produced in the area affected by radioactive contamination; brief statement from V. Onisovets, Deputy Chief of the Department of Agriculture and Food Industry, confirming familiarity of the department with the information, 1986 November-December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Sidorenko, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Safety in the Atomic Power Industry, re implementing the resolution of the TsK KPSS of July 14, 1986, 1986 November

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS (Department of Defense Industry) from V. Bukatov re progress in implementing the TsK KPSS resolution of July 14, 1986; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Minister of Medium Machine Building re improving safety of nuclear plants and re recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident (incomplete, first page only), 1986 November

Memorandum to V. Dolgikh, Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from Marshal S. Akhromeev, re work done by troops in recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident; brief holograph note from Dolgikh to I. Yastrebov, 1986 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Liashko, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukraine, re progress in implementing the TsK KPSS resolution of July 14, 1986, 1986 December

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, A. Volskii, Chief of the Machine-Building Department, and O. Beliakov, Chief of the Defense Department, re progress in implementing the TsK KPSS resolution of July 14, 1986, 1986 November

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on a plan for pre-emptive counterpropaganda actions in connection with the first anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Skliarov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering; list (continuation) of the officials the resolution should be sent to; A. N. Yakovlev's brief note transmitting the material to A. I. Vlasov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Falin, Chairman of the Board of the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo pechati Novosti - APN), with his speculations re actions of foreign states in connection with the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1987 January-March

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Liashko, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukraine, re progress in implementing the TsK KPSS resolution of July 14, 1986 (see file 18); V. Dolgikh's brief instructions dispatching the material to I. Yastrebov, 1986 December - 1987 January

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS (IE. Ligachev) and N. Ryzhkov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, from B. Shcherbina, Chairman of the Governmental Commission, denouncing the play Sarkofag (The Sarcophagus) by V. Gubarev; review of the play by Professors A. Guskova and IU. Grigoriev; brief instructions from IE. Ligachev, A. N. Yakovlev, N. Ryzhkov, and V. Legostaev; memorandum to the TsK KPSS (IE. Ligachev) and N. Ryzhkov from V. Gubarev; memorandum to IE. Ligachev, member of the Governmental Commission and Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from IE. Zaitsev and P. Slezko, 1986 November-December 1987 January

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Rekunkov, USSR Prosecutor General, re completion of the investigation of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with a list of defendants, 1987 January

Memorandum to V. Dolgikh from B. Shcherbina, I. Yastrebov, and A. Kovalev submitting their proposals for handling telegrams from Stockholm, the Hague, and Bern, and draft instructions to Soviet ambassadors on possible requests from the foreign media to allow journalists to visit the Chernobyl zone; brief note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (A. Kovalev) from B. Batsanov, stating that the proposals were approved by N. Ryzhkov, V. Dolgikh, and A. N. Yakovlev; draft instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Switzerland requesting that he warn P. Feuz, Secretary of the European Nuclear Society, that the materials submitted to the IAEA General Conference were to be shown to specialists only; draft instructions to Soviet ambassadors in Greece, Switzerland, West Germany, Belgium, the United States, Austria, the Netherlands, Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Great Britain, Spain, Norway, Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, Japan, and Finland re the inexpediency of trips by foreign journalists to the Chernobyl zone, 1987 February

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Terebilov, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Court, re the beginning of the criminal case against those blamed for the Chernobyl nuclear accident; brief note to N. Savinkin from A. Lukianov requesting that he prepare proposals on the issue, 1987 February

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Lukonin, Minister of Atomic Power Engineering, re counterpropaganda actions in anticipation of the first anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; brief note by V. Kuznetsov, 1987 March-April

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, IU. Skliarov, I. Yastrebov, V. Petrovskii, and G. Ageev re the procedure for and date and place of the trial of those accused in connection with the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the admission of Soviet and foreign correspondents to the courtroom, and the coverage of the trial by the Soviet media, 1987 April

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, and O. Beliakov, Chief of the Department of Defense Industry, re work of the Ministry of Atomic Power Engineering and the Ministry of Medium Machine Building on securing operational safety of nuclear power plants as a result of implementing the TsK KPSS resolution of July 14, 1986, and on the investigation of the course of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; two brief notes from V. Dolgikh; Ligachev's handwritten note, 1987 May

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, requesting that professionals with the participation of the Councils of Ministers of the RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, and Belorussian SSR coordinate their joint efforts in researching radioactivity in the Chernobyl area and develop recommendations for further recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident; memorandum to a group of professionals and top officials from V. Dolgikh and B. Shcherbina requesting that they urgently consider these issues; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Yastrebov re discussion of radioactivity situation and recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident at the meeting of an ad hoc group of the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1987 June-July

Brief instructions to D. Yazov and V. Govorov from A. Lukianov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, summarizing progress and criticizing shortcomings in recovery work from the Chernobyl nuclear accident by detachments and units of the Ministry of Defense, 1987 July

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Sadovskii, First Deputy Minister of Power Engineering and Electrification, reconstruction of social and cultural buildings and homes for permanent residence for employees of the Chernobyl nuclear plant; brief handwritten note from V. Dolgikh, 1987 July

Statement on radioactivity in Gomelskaia and Mogilevskaia oblasts of Belorussia in May-June 1987, with cover letter to the TsK KPSS from G. Sergeev, First Deputy Minister of Power Engineering and Electrification; brief note from V. Dolgikh, 1987 July

Statement signed by E. Sizenko, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Agricultural Industry (Gosagroprom), on progress in and prospects for decontamination and on agricultural activity of Gosagroprom in the area affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident (with two tables), 1987 July

Report of V. Pikalov, Chief of Chemical Troops of the Ministry of Defense, at the meeting in the TsK KPSS on June 15, 1987, on radioactivity situation in the Chernobyl area and proposals re further operation of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 1987 June

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine re analyses of the situation at the Chernobyl nuclear plant and conclusions made by the Academy of Sciences: inexpediency of returning the evacuated population to the Chernobyl zone, necessity of establishing a network of research fields and reserves in the Chernobyl zone, and necessity of launching a scientific and technical project to isolate the Fourth block and to work out a plan for further operation of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 1987 June

Memorandum to V. Dolgikh, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, re insufficient appropriation for capital investment, deficiency of material and technical supplies and human resources at the construction site of the city of Slavutich, which is being built for permanent residence for employees of the Chernobyl nuclear plant; brief instructions to B. Shcherbina, N. Lukonin, and A. Maiorets from V. Dolgikh, directing that they consider the problems presented in the said memorandum; brief handwritten note from V. Dolgikh to V. Frolyshev; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Shcherbina, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, re his inspection of the situation at the construction site of Slavutich, 1987 August

Report to the TsK KPSS from A. V. Vlasov, Minister of Internal Affairs, re implementing the resolutions of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers of May 22, June 5, and August 22, 1986, on recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1987 September

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Yevtukh, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Belorussia, re jobs, housing, and social services for the population evacuated from Gomelskaia oblast, 1987 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Vasiliev, Minister of Reclamation and Water Resources Management, re progress in implementing the TsK KPSS resolution of July 14, 1986, 1987 October

Memorandum to V. Dolgikh, Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from IU. Sedunov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), re investigation of the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident carried out by the Gosgidromet from September 1986 to September 1987, 1987 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Shcherbina, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, re progress in carrying out the tasks assigned to ministries and departments and their subsidiaries in the resolution of the TsK KPSS of July 14, 1986, 1987 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Chazov, Minister of Health, re medical aspects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1987 November

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), re radioactivity resulting from the Chernobyl nuclear accident; map of the area affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident, indicating radioactivity levels, 1987 December

Report to V. Dolgikh, Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from General P. Lushev, First Deputy Minister of Defense, on the response by troops of the Soviet Army to the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in December 1987, 1987 December

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re talks about signing a Soviet-Austrian agreement on prompt notification in the event of nuclear accident and on the exchange of information about nuclear plants; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, N. Luzhin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Defense Industry, and G. Kornienko, Deputy Chief of the International Department, supporting the proposal of related ministries to limit the information about Soviet nuclear plants to be revealed to Austria; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), L. Riabev (Ministry of Medium Machine Building), and L. Voronin (Ministry of Atomic Power Engineering), submitting proposals on Soviet policy toward the talks, 1988 April

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Skliarov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and IU. Voronov, Chief of the Department of Culture, requesting that the TsK KPSS authorize a proposal to erect a monument to all Chernobyl victims in the city of Pripiat (in addition to the memorial at the grave site of the Chernobyl accident victims buried at Mitinskoe cemetery in Moscow); distribution list; note about the design for a memorial monument to the Chernobyl victims in the Mitinskoe cemetery; note about the same monument stating that the monuments in the USSR could be erected only upon a resolution of the government; cover letter to the Propaganda Department (V. Zhitenev) from V. Kazenin, Deputy Minister of Culture, accompanying the said reference; brief instructions to IU. Skliarov and IU. Voronov from A. N. Yakovlev; letter to R. Gorbacheva [wife of the General Secretary of the TsK KPSS M. Gorbachev] from L. Kulish, resident of Grodnenskaia oblast, proposing to erect a memorial monument in the Chernobyl area; copy of an article from Moskovskii komsomolets (Moscow Komsomol Member) newspaper re a contest for the best design for the monument at Mitinskoe cemetery, 1988 July

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Frolyshev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, re moral and political situation at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, with the voting record of Politburo members, 1988 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Degtiarev, Deputy Chief of the Ideology Department, re publication in Novyi Mir (New World) magazine of the story Chernobyl Journal by GH. Medvedev, supported by Academician A. Sakharov and subject to approval by the Politburo (in consultation with B. Shcherbina, Chairman of the Bureau for Fuel and Power Complex), with a note from A. Degtiarev, Deputy Chief of the Ideology Department, stating that Academician Sakharov and the Bureau for Social Development of the USSR Council of Ministers were informed of the pending decision; brief handwritten note (signature illegible); brief handwritten note to A. Kapto from I. Smirnov; letter to M. Gorbachev, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet and General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from Academician Sakharov supporting the publication and warning that if the story is not published he will make all possible efforts to familiarize the Soviet people with it, 1988 November - 1989 January-March

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Revenko, Secretary of the Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine in Kievskaia oblast (obkom), re the failed attempt of participants in handling the recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident to establish an informal society to protect their rights, 1989 April

Memorandum to M. Gorbachev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, and N. Ryzhkov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, from R. Aleksakhin, Acting Director of the All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Agricultural Radiology (VNIISKhR), and B. Annenkov, Deputy Director of the VNIISKhR, re designing a state program for recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident to be carried out by the VNIISKhR, 1987 July

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Syroegina, Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Belorussia, submitting the resolution of the Supreme Soviet of Belorussia On a State Program for Handling the Aftermath of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident in Belorussia and requesting that item 5 of the resolution be considered by the TsK KPSS; the resolution; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Voronin (Ministry of Atomic Power Engineering) re problems referred to in item 5 of the resolution, 1989 July 1989 September 1989 November

Telegram to M. Gorbachev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS and Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet, from V. Budko, Secretary of the Narodich Bureau (raikom) of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, denouncing the publication in Pravda (Truth) newspaper of an article re a meeting of the governmental commission on handling the Chernobyl nuclear accident; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Mariin, Deputy Chairman of the Governmental Commission for Handling the Aftermath of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident (approved and signed by V. Mozhin, Deputy Chief of the Socio-Economic Department), re benefits to be provided to the population in the area affected by radioactive contamination and re the procedure for evacuating the population from the contaminated area and for reimbursing them for related expenses, 1989 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Babichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Party Work and Cadres, and I. Zaramenskii, Deputy Chief of the Ideology Department, describing the unauthorized Chernobyl Way march and Chernobyl Tragedy and Election Law in Belorussia rally, names of those who were most active at the meeting, their speeches and goals, and counteractions taken by the authorities; brief instruction to TsK KPSS secretaries to familiarize themselves with the information, 1989 October

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Skiba, Chief of the Agricultural Department, re a radio broadcast about the use at the Yaroslavl meat-processing factory of meat contaminated with radioactive elements during the Chernobyl nuclear accident and about poultry meat that was delivered to Yaroslavl from Leningrad and rotted there; ten brief notes directing that TsK KPSS secretaries familiarize themselves with the material; brief handwritten note to V. Nikitin (USSR Council of Ministers) and I. Skiba from A. N. Yakovlev; excerpts from the radio broadcast; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Nikitin, 1989 October 1989 December

Urgent message to the TsK KPSS from A. Makukhin, First Deputy Minister of Power Engineering and Electrification, about the explosion of the Fourth block of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, stating that there was no need for special help or for evacuation of the population, 1986 April 26

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from I. Shcherbakov, Soviet Ambassador to North Vietnam, submitting a message from Le Duan, First Secretary of the Vietnam Workers' Party, and Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and stating that the same message was sent to other socialist countries; the message expressing gratitude to the KPSS, Soviet government, and Soviet people for their support in the struggle of Vietnam against the United States, 1970 December - 1971 January

Statement (translated into Russian) of the government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam re the escalation of war and the expansion of US aggression in Laos, 1971 February

Memorandum of a conversation between I. Shcherbakov, Soviet Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and Hoang Van Tien, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DRV, re the current situation in Indochina, 1971 February 2

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Vdovin, Deputy Chief of the Department of South East Asia of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Vo Tuang, Counselor and Envoy of the DRV Embassy in the Soviet Union, re information on the current situation in Indochina, 1971 February 24

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Vdovin, Deputy Chief of the Department for South East Asia of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Vo Tuang, Counselor and Envoy of the DRV Embassy in the Soviet Union, re participation of the delegation from the Vietnam Workers' Party in the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and visit of Le Thanh Nghi, Deputy Prime Minister of the DRV, to Moscow on his way from Prague to Vietnam and re his concerns that the problems of American pilots brought down in Vietnam might be discussed at the conference of experts in international law and at the International Conference of Red Cross Societies to be held in Geneva in May, 1971 May

Memorandum of a conversation between I. Shcherbakov, Soviet Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and Nguyen Co Thach, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DRV, re a private meeting between Vietnamese representatives Le Duc Tho and Huan Thuy with H. Kissinger, US Secretary of State, changes in their policy toward the United States and South Vietnam, and support offered to the DRV by the world community and the Soviet Union, 1971 July

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Zorin, Soviet Ambassador to France, and Xuang Thuy, leader of the Vietnamese delegation to the conference on Vietnam in Paris, re a secret meeting with Kissinger's representative (July 12, 1971), new DRV proposals on the settlement of the situation in Vietnam, secret meetings between H. Kissinger (US Secretary of State) and the DRV delegation, American policy toward Vietnam, and the position of the American delegation at the conference, 1971 July

Report (translated into Russian) of Hoang Anh, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Workers' Party (CC VWP), presented at the Plenum of the CC VWP (end of December 1970 - beginning of January 1971) issued by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces, 1971

Memorandum of a conversation between I. Shcherbakov, Soviet Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, re building of a mausoleum for Ho Chi Minh [deceased Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Workers' Party], preservation of Ho Chi Minh's body, and economic issues, 1971 February

Political letter On the Policy of the Vietnam Workers' Party Toward the Settlement of Indochinese Problems and on the Goals Set by the Decisions of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the KPSS sent to the leadership of the Vietnam Workers' Party by I. Shcherbakov, Soviet Ambassador to the DRV, 1971 May

Memorandum of an official meeting between V. Zorin, Soviet Ambassador to France, and Vo Van Chung, leader of the delegation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to France, re American-Vietnamese relations, possible progress in French-Vietnamese relations, a visit of the Chinese delegation headed by Chou En-lai to Hanoi, and appreciation by the Vietnam Workers' Party of KPSS efforts in support of the struggle of the Vietnamese people, 1971 March

Memorandum of a conversation between I. Shcherbakov, Soviet Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and Nguyen Co Thach, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, re security measures to be taken by Vietnam and the Soviet Union to guarantee the safe visit of Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of the DRV, to Cambodia, re appreciation of the support provided by the Soviet Union for Vietnam's position concerning American prisoners of war, and re the Vietnamese response to the proposal of the American businessman R. Perot to rebuild hospitals, temples, and schools destroyed as a result of bombing by American air forces in exchange for the return of American prisoners of war, 1970 January

Memorandum of a conversation between I. Merkulov, Counselor at the Soviet Embassy in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and Ta Huy Chanh, Deputy Chief of the Department for the USSR and East European Countries of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DRV, re permission given to families of American prisoners of war to send Christmas parcels (via the Moscow Main Post Office) and postcards (by mail or via the Committee for Connections with American Prisoners of War in North Vietnam located in New York), and re issues to be dealt with by the Society of Vietnamese-Soviet Friendship, 1970 November

Report on a business trip taken by a delegation from the International Committee of Inquiry (G. Frank, Sweden, and Professor A. Poltorak, Soviet Union) to North Vietnam, July 16 - August 1, 1970, to investigate criminal actions of the United States in Indochina, with the following headings: (1) cooperation of Vietnamese organizations (from North and South Vietnam) with the ICI, (2) collection by the said delegation of evidence of the crimes committed by the United States in Vietnam, (3) consultations held by Professor A. Poltorak with Vietnamese investigative agencies, (4) members of the ICI, (5) procedure for the first ICI session, (6) joint memorandum of the lawyers from socialist countries, and (7) summary and proposals, 1970 August 1

Record of a conversation between M. Isaev, Second Secretary of the Department for South East Asia of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Nguyen Van Quang, First Secretary of the Embassy of the DRV in the Soviet Union, re decisions adopted by the DRV government re American pilots taken prisoner in North Vietnam, 1970 November

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Ivashutin re a report presented by General Chang Van Quang, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, at a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Workers' Party, re possible cooperation with patriots from the Saigon authorities and army, 1972 November

Statement on the International Commission for Observation and Control in Laos; statement on the situation in the regions of Laos under control of the Neo Lao Hak Xat (Laotian Patriotic Front) (both statements issued by the Department for South East Asia of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs), 1969 September

Brief review of the international situation as of 9 a.m. September 1, 1969 (China, NATO, Federal Republic of Germany, and Italy, Northern Ireland, Middle East, Israel and Lebanon, Yemen, India and Nepal, Nigeria, Vietnam, and foreign intelligence satellites), sent to K. Rusakov (TsK KPSS) by P. Ivashutin (Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff), 1969 September

Brief review of the international situation as of 9 a.m. August 15, 1969 (China, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Sweden, Greece, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and Thailand, China and the DRV, and Kenya), dispatched to K. Rusakov by P. Ivashutin (Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff), 1969 August

Brief review of the international situation as of 9 a.m. July 19, 1969 (China, Czechoslovakia, Federal Republic of Germany, NATO, Israel and Ethiopia, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Pakistan and China, Vietnam, China and Japan, the United States, and flight of Apollo-11), sent to K. Rusakov by P. Ivashutin (Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff), 1969 July

Memorandum of a conversation between S. Divilkovskii, Counselor at the Soviet Embassy in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and Nguyen Phu Xoay(?), Acting Head of the Permanent Representatives of the National Front of Liberation (NFL) of South Vietnam in the DRV, re New Year's greetings from L. Brezhnev to Nguyen Huu Tho, Chairman of the NLFSV, re a student demonstration in Saigon demanding a cease-fire and negotiations with NLFSV, re the importance of the NLFSV being recognized by the United States, and re military actions taken by Saigon-American troops, 1968 December 1969 January

Memorandum of a conversation between G. Cheshev, Second Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and W. Badura, First Secretary of the Polish Embassy in the DRV, re information provided by Dobrovolskii, Polish Ambassador in Saigon, about the American position toward a political settlement in Vietnam, about the Chinese colony in Cambodia, and about a failed attempt of the Catholic Church in South Vietnam to hold a "general national assembly", 1969 January

Extract from document no. 38995 re 1,205 American prisoners of war captured in North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, their military ranks, living conditions, and the possibility of using this issue to maneuver the United States toward a policy favorable to North Vietnam, 1972 December 1

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re problems brought up by the memorandum from the Committee for State Security (KGB) of December 21, 1970; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re circulation of underground (samizdat) political literature demonstrating political opposition to the KPSS and Soviet regime and establishment of a "democratic movement," cities where the forbidden literature is published and circulates on a large scale, names of the authors of the publications, and proposed measures to oppose their activity; brief instructions to TsK secretaries to familiarize themselves with Andropov's memorandum, 1970 December - 1971 January