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Religion

Background Information
A Letter from Gorky to Stalin
Lenin: Clergy Must Give Church Funds to Govt. or Be Shot

Attacks on Intelligentia

Early Attacks
A Letter from Lenin Regarding Artists
Renewed Attacks
The Central Committee Discusses a "Politically Harmful" Novel
Censorship
Writers of Censored Literature
Suppressing Dissidents
Background on Sakharov's Accusation and Soviet Response
Sakharov Accuses Government of Drugging Dissidents
Pasternak and Doctor Zhivago
Autobiography of a Bolshevik (Mikhail Suslov)

Chernobyl

Background Information
A 1979 Investigation of Construction Flaws

Collectivization

Background Information
Politburo Livestock Collectivization Policy
Background on the Investigation of Farm Living Conditions
An Investigation of Living Conditions on a Collective Farm

Deportations

Background Information
Deportation of Tartars Following World War II

Jewish

Background Information
Members Describe Activities to the Communist Central Committee

Secret Police

Background Information
Investigation and Deportation of a Member of the Press
The GULAG
A Letter from Former Prisoners to the Presidium
KGB Report of Publications Hostile to the Government

Ukrainien

Background Information
Central Committee Blacklists "counterrevolutionary" Villages

Repression and Terror

Stalin in Control
Rykov's Plea for Clemency
The Kirov Murder and Purges
Stalin orders "choke and strangle... blood-sucking kulaks"
Bukharin's Testimony
Analysis by the Central Committee of the Communist Party

Perestroika

Background Information
Minutes of a 1990 Politburo Meeting
Information about the Resolution and Conference
Resolution Concerning Gorbachev by a Conservative Conference

USSR and other nations

Early Cooperations

The Soviet Union and the United States
American Famine Relief
Economic Cooperation
"Ara" [American Relief Administration]

Soviet and American Communists

Background Information
An American Communist Testifies to the Bolsheviks

World War II

The Wartime Alliance
Stalin Discusses Wendell Wilkie with Molotov
American POW's and MIA's
List of POW's Dispatched from Odessa, May 1945

The Cold War

Postwar Estrangement
Ciphered Message from Stalin to President Truman
Soviet Perspectives
Central Committee Plots to "Expose Imperialist Policies"
Cuban Missile Crisis
Khrushchev's letter to President Kennedy

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