# William F. Buckley, Jr. and Vladimir Bukovsky: Gratitude and Glasnost **URL:** **By** Vladimir Bukovsky, William F. Buckley, Jr. **Published:** October 25, 1988 --- William F. Buckley speaks about the virtues of gratitude, humility, and honest work; Vladimir Bukovsky speaks about the rise of glasnost and perestroika. William F. Buckley, Jr. was an author, commentator, columnist, the founder of _National Review_, and host of the television show _Firing Line_. During his lifetime he somewhat interchangeably referred to himself as both a libertarian and a conservative. Vladimir Bukovsky was a Soviet dissident writer and activist during the '60s and '70s. He spent a total of 12 years in Soviet prisons, labor camps, and forced-treatment psychiatric hospitals. He was able to escape the Soviet Union in 1976 thanks to a prisoner exchange. This video features Buckley and Bukovsky at the 35th anniversary of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (which was founded by noted Old Right/libertarian thinker Frank Chodorov). Buckley speaks about the virtues of gratitude, humility, and honest work; Bukovsky speaks about the rise of glasnost and perestroika: political movements for reform and transparency that would later help topple the Communist regime in Russia.