Vladimir Bukovsky - Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity

Russian interference in American politics didnt start in 2016,but stretches back decades.Vladimir Bukovsky uses the Kremlins own documents to show this and much more:how the Soviet Union provided a false face to the worldand how Soviet leaders used Western leaders as dupes or willing actors.Judgment in Moscow provides the written Nuremberg trialthe Soviets never got when the USSR fell.
Anne Applebaum, author ofGulag: A History (Pulitzer Prize),Washington Post columnist,and visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics

Russian interference in Western politics has been in the news of late,but Bukovskys deep dive into Soviet-era documents demonstratesthat for much of the 20th century it was not paranoid fantasy, but cold, hard fact.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds,Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennesseeand author of An Army of Davids

The most important work to appear for decades on the Soviet empire and its aftermath.
Edward Lucas, former senior editor of The Economist, from the Introduction

Offering crucial archival documentation of the crimes of the Soviet era,Vladimir Bukovsky demonstrates how the failure to address its past has doomed Russia to repeat it.This book is essential for understandingwhy Russia did not make the transition to democracy after 1991and why the men who now rule the Kremlin operatejust like the communist apparatchiks and KGB bureaucrats who preceded them.
Amy Knight, author of Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder

A fascinating work which demolishes a few more myths prevalent in the Westabout the Soviet Union and the Cold War stunning revelations.
Richard Pipes, former director of Harvards Russian Research Centerand member of the National Security Council

A massive and major contribution highly valuable material.
Robert Conquest, author of The Great Terror and Harvest of Sorrow

At last, a book in the West that describes the Red Empire as seen by we who had to live under it.
Mart Laar, former Prime Minister of Estonia and recipient of the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom

Judgment in Moscow is an essential warningof the dangers of collaborating with authoritarian regimes.Its also a timeless reminder that evil doesnt die, but must be battled back constantly.The crimes of the Soviet Union were enabled by appeasement and rationalizationby politicians in the free world who ignored that the lesser evil is still evil.Today we are witnessing a similar plungeinto the depths of moral equivalence and convenient deals with dictatorships.As Bukovsky writes in Judgment in Moscow, using a word much in vogue today,any sane person knows full well when he has entered into collusion with evil.

Vladimir Bukovskys moral compass has never failed,always pointing at the truth regardless of the circumstances or consequences.No one has written with greater clarity on whyengagement between the free world and despots spreads corruption, not freedom.He writes, The voice of conscience whispers that our fall beganfrom the moment we agreed to peaceful coexistence with evil.We have fallen far indeed, and Judgment in Moscow holds the mirror of history up topoliticians today proclaiming the need to find common ground with a dictator like Vladimir Putin.
Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion and author of Winter is Coming

Judgment in Moscow combinesa devastating archival documentation of key points in Soviet historywith a passionate polemic directed at those in the West who averted their eyes, minimized,or justified Communist totalitarian oppression and Soviet aggression.Students of Soviet history as well as historians of the Western reaction to Soviet communismmust grapple with his Soviet archival documentsand listen to Bukovskys fervent indictment of Western apologists.
John Earl Haynes, author of In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage

After 23 years of underhand censorship,Vladimir Bukovskys Judgment in Moscow has finally appeared in English.In 1995, thanks to his access to the secret documents of the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB,he was the first to reveal in detail how the totalitarian USSRmisled and manipulated Western public opinion and,by corrupting its politicians and supporting guerrilla groups and terrorists,sought to subvert and destroy democracy.This is a fundamental historical study and major testimony by one of the great dissidents.
Stphane Courtois, editor of The Black Book of Communism

A glimpse into what should have happened if Russias leaders had had the courageto fully account for the Soviet past.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian opposition politicianand contributing writer to the Washington Post

If you seek to understand why we now face a renewed Cold War,one even more dangerous than the first, this is the first book you must read.If you seek to understand Russias interference in electoral democracies throughout the free world,this too is the first book you must read.But above all, if you seek to understand why you never even heard about this bookpublished in nine languages, an international bestsellerthis is the book you must read.
Claire Berlinski, contributing editor of City Journaland author of Menace in Europe: Why the Continents Crisis Is Americas, Too

Steve Ditko introduced me to the writings of Vladimir Bukovsky,a heroic figure we both had come to admire and respect.We were eager to read Judgment in Moscow, but no publisher was brave enough to publish it.Now, at last, it is available, and every bit as worthy as we anticipated.A giant of the 20th century now makes his mark on the 21st.
Robin Snyder, writing and editing partner of Steve Ditko, original artist of Spider-Man

Everyone who cares about liberty should read this book.
Evgeny Kissin, award-winning classical pianist

The inhuman Utopia fell,but neither spiritual freedom nor honorable thought has risen from the ruins.So writes the incomparable Vladimir Bukovsky in Judgment in Moscow,his long-awaited epic examining the ghastly intertwining of Communist East and Free West,and how it could possibly be that judgment of the crimes of communismstill eludes a world sick with socialism.With disarming intimacy (you can almost see the conversational curls of cigarette smoke),Bukovsky tells a dark new history of deception, corruption and betrayalon both sides of the Iron Curtainas gleaned from masses of never-before-seen secret Kremlin documents;these historical contributions can hardly be overstated.However, what makes the book unique and even transformativelies in Bukovskys eyewitness and personal experience of the dark history he relates.

Soviet dissident, KGB prisoner, then celebrated former dissident and ex-prisoner,Bukovsky has lived his entire life on these same battlefields, East and West, now ruins.If Judgment in Moscow cant infuse the survivors with conscience, nothing can.
Diana West, author of American Betrayal

The heroic Soviet dissident, Vladimir Bukovsky, makes use of extensive first hand documentsthat he personally stole from Russias Central Committee (C.C.) archives,which have never before been accessible to Americans.Up until now, the depth and extent of the Kremlins subversion of America has been understoodby just a limited number of subject matter experts.But that could all change now.
American Thinker

This book will be a hard pill to swallow for many in the United States and the West.It raises uncomfortable moral dilemmas and exposes Western weaknessesthis book may shed some light on the nature of the current Russian regimeand why, after our apparent victory in the Cold War,we face a Russia seeking once again to expand its influence in Eastern and Central Europeand which denies freedom and liberty to its people.