Judgment in Moscow, Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity, Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity

International bestselling author Vladimir Bukovsky's 1995 book, Judgment in Moscow, detailed Soviet meddling in Western politics in the 1970's and 80's, as documented in Soviet archives to which Bukovsky was given access by post-Communist Russia's President Yeltsin -- unaware that Bukovsky carried a new high-tech scanner. Originally written in Russian, Judgment was seen as a major indictment of political treachery both inside and outside the USSR. The book was funded by a grant from Margaret Thatcher. Fellow dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn paid for its publication in Russia. Bukovsky's thesis is in the title: Just as the Nuremberg trials declared Nazism and associated actions crimes against humanity, so should the world have put Communism on trial after the fall of the Soviet Union. The goal: Not revenge, but a declaration that the world would consider a resurgence of the USSR's form of totalitarian government intolerable and criminal, and would not allow it to rise again. Instead, Bukovsky details a pattern of co-operation with Soviet regimes that makes today's accusations of collusion between American leaders and Moscow not only unsurprising, but expected.A controversial tome in nine other languages, Judgment has never been published in English, after the author refused to rewrite parts of the book which accused prominent Americans of behind-the-scenes collusion with the Soviets. The author quotes a Random House editor's letter: "I don't disagree, but I simply can't publish a book that accuses Americans like Cyrus Vance and Francis Ford Coppola of unpatriotic -- or even treacherous -- behavior."The 2019 English edition is a new translation by translator and journalist Alyona Kojevnikov, who has worked for Radio Liberty, the BBC and Prime Minister Thatcher. it includes an introduction by former Economist editor Edward Lucas and afterword by veteran Russia journalist David Satter. Published by Ninth of November press, it will also include hundreds of source footnotes to translated Communist Party documents, newspaper and book archives, plus historical context notes for today's readers.