Vladimir Bukovsky's 1995 book detailing secret records he stole from the former Communist Party archives in Moscow has never been published in English, despite many other translations. This first author-approved translation documents secret dealings between Western powers and the Soviet Union, and Bukovsky weaves a tale from them of how the Soviet Union operated, and how it collapsed. His thesis: Western complicity prevented former Soviet officials from being tried for crimes that would have, like the Nuremberg trials, sent a clear message to the rest of the world that no one should ever attempt their kind of "revolution" again.