Masterpieces of History
The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989
Twenty years in the making, this collection presents 122 top-level Soviet, European and American records on the superpowers' role in the annus mirabilis of 1989. Consisting of Politburo minutes; diary entries from Gorbachev's senior aide, Anatoly Chernyaev; meeting notes and private communications of Gorbachev with George H.W. Bush, Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterrand; and high-level CIA analyses.
Complementing the documents is the inclusion for the first time of the proce...
Éditeur : Central European University Press
Lieu d’édition : Budapest
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 19 septembre 2018
ISBN numérique : 978-615-5211-88-1
Collection : National Security Archive Cold War Readers
Année d’édition : 2010
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-615-5053-40-5
Nombre de pages : 782
Svetlana Savranskaya et Thomas Blanton
Preface and AcknowledgementsSvetlana Savranskaya
The Logic of 1989: The Soviet Peaceful Withdrawal from Eastern EuropeSvetlana Savranskaya et Thomas Blanton (trad.)
Dialogue: The Musgrove Conference, May 1-3, 1998Documents
Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 1: Transcript of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Conference with CC CPSU Secretaries, March 15, 1985Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 2: Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev regarding the “Vladimirov” Article, July 5, 1985Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 3: Memorandum from Anatoly Chernyaev to Aleksandr Yakovlev on Germany and Eastern Europe, March 10, 1986Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 4: Speech by Mikhail Gorbachev to Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 28, 1986Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 5: Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, June 13, 1986Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 7: Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, July 3, 1986Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 8: Transcript of CC CPSU Politburo Session, November 13, 1986Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 9: Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, January 29, 1987Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 10: Proposal from Georgy Shakhnazarov to the CPSU for a Partial Soviet Troop Withdrawal from the ČSSR, March 1987Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 11: Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session. Report on Mikhail Gorbachev’s Visit to Czechoslovakia, April 16, 1987Svetlana Savranskaya et Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 12: Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, May 8, 1987Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 13: Report on Mikhail Gorbachev’s Visit to Romania, June 4, 1987Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 14: Report on Eduard Shevardnadze’s Visits to Bulgaria, Hungary, and Yugoslavia, July 9, 1987Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 16: Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, November 19, 1987Robert M. Gates
Document No. 17: Memorandum from Robert Gates, “Gorbachev’s Gameplan: The Long View”, November 24, 1987Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 19: Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, March 10, 1988Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 20: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Lazar Moisov, March 14, 1988Vladislav Zubok (trad.)
Document No. 21: Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, March 24-25, 1988Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 22: Record of the Main Content of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Gustáv Husák, April 12, 1988Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 23: Record of the Main Content of a Telephone Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Janós Kádár, May 19, 1988Vladislav Zubok (trad.)
Document No. 24: Comments from Georgy Shakhnazarov on Viktor Kulikov’s Report at the Warsaw Treaty PCC, May 25, 1988Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 26: Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, June 20, 1988Svetlana Savranskaya et Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 27: Speech by Mikhail Gorbachev at a Dinner with Wojciech Jaruzelski, July 11, 1988Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 28: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Józef Czyrek, September 23, 1988Vladislav Zubok (trad.)
Document No. 29: Preparatory Notes from Georgy Shakhnazarov for Mikhail Gorbachev for CC CPSU Politburo Meeting, October 6, 1988Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 30: Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev regarding a Meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl, October 28, 1988Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 31: Notes of a Meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and Foreign Policy Advisers, October 31, 1988Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 32: Summary of Conversations between Karóly Grósz, Janós Berecz, Miklós Németh, Mátyás Szűrös and Aleksandr Yakovlev, November 10-11, 1988Vladislav Zubok (trad.)
Document No. 34: Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev on the Situation in the Baltics, December 10, 1988Vladislav Zubok (trad.)
Document No. 35: Transcript of CC CPSU Politburo Session, December 27-28, 1988Aleksandr Yakovlev
Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 36: Record of Conversation between Aleksandr Yakovlev and Henry Kissinger, January 16, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 37: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Henry Kissinger, January 17, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 38: Letter from George H.W. Bush to Mikhail Gorbachev January 17, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 39: Report from Mikhail Gorbachev to the CC CPSU Politburo regarding His Meeting with the Trilateral Commission January 21, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 41: Memorandum from CC CPSU International Department, “On a Strategy for Relations with the European Socialist Countries”, February 1989Vladislav Zubok (trad.)
Document No. 42: Memorandum from the Bogomolov Institute, “Changes in Eastern Europe and their Impact on the USSR”, February 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 44: Memorandum from Anatoly Chernyaev to Vadim Zagladin, February 4, 1989Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 46: Report on Vadim Medvedev’s Visit to Romania February 16, 1989Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 48: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Achille Occhetto February 28, 1989Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 49: Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session March 3, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 50: Record of Conversation between Mikhail gorbachev and Miklós Németh March 3, 1989March 3, 1989
Csaba Farkas (trad.)
Document No. 52: Record of Conversations between Mikhail Gorbachev and Karóly Grósz March 23-24, 1989Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 53: Transcript of CC CPSU Politburo Session, “Outcome of the USSR People’s Deputies Elections” March 28, 1989Vladislav Zubok (trad.)
Document No. 55: Report from Vadim Zagladin on Conversation with Jan Pudlák April 1, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 56: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher April 6, 1989Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 58: Session of the CC CPSU Politburo April 20, 1989Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 59: Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev regarding Gorbachev’s State of Mind May 2, 1989Vladislav Zubok (trad.)
Document No. 60: Session of the CC CPSU Politburo May 11, 1989Dr. Jan Chowaniec (trad.)
Document No. 61: Transcript of CC PUWP Secretariat Meeting June 5, 1989Christiaan Hetzner (trad.)
Document No. 62: Record of Conversation between Erich Honecker and Eduard Shevardnadze June 9, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 63: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl June 12, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 64: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Richard von Weizsacker June 12, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 66: Record of Second Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl June 13, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 67: Record of Third Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl June 14, 1989Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 70: Letter from Helmut Kohl to George H.W. Bush June 28, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 71: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev, François Mitterrand and Their Spouses July 4, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 72: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and François Mitterrand. July 5, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 74: Record of Concluding Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and François Mitterran, July 6, 1989Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 75: Notes of Meeting of Warsaw Treaty Member-States, July 8, 1989Gregory F. Dombe (trad.)
Document No. 76: Information Note regarding George H.W. Bush’s Visit to Poland (July 9-11), July 18, 1989.Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 77: Record of Conversation between Aleksandr Yakovlev and Jack Matlock, July 20, 1989Christiaan Hetzner (trad.)
Document No. 79: Transcript of SED Politburo Sessions September 5, 1989Christiaan Hetzner (trad.)
Document No. 80: Memorandum of Conversation between Oskar Fischer and Vyacheslav Kochemassov, September 7, 1989Christiaan Hetzner (trad.)
Document No. 81: Letter from Gerd Vehres to Oskar Fischer, September 10, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 82: Record of Conversation between Evgeny Primakov and Margaret Thatcher, September 18, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 85: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher, September 23, 1989E. Shevardnadze, A. Yakovlev, D. Yazov et al.
Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 86: Protocol No. 166 of CC CPSU Politburo Session, September 28, 1989Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 87: Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev regarding Mikhail Gorbachev’s Visit to the GDR, October 5, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 88: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Members of the CC SED Politburo, October 7, 1989Vladislav Zubok (trad.)
Document No. 89: Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev regarding German Reunification, October 9, 1989Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 90: Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev regarding Erich Honecker, October 11, 1989Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 91: Session of the CC CPSU Politburo, Discussion of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Talk with Mieczyslaw Rakowski, October 12, 1989Christiaan Hetzner (trad.)
Document No. 92: Record of Conversation between Vadim Medvedev and Kurt Hager, October 13, 1989Shakhnazarov
Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 93: Memorandum from Georgy Shakhnazarov to Mikhail Gorbachev regarding Military Detente in Europe, October 14, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 95: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Mauno Koivisto, October 25, 1989Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 96: Record of Conversation between Aleksandr Yakovlev and Zbigniew Brzezinski, October 31, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 97: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Egon Krenz, November 1, 1989Vladislav Zubok (trad.)
Document No. 99: Session of the CC CPSU Politburo, November 9, 1989Catherine Nielsen (trad.)
Document No. 100: Record of Conversation between Helmut Kohl and Lech Wałęsa, November 9, 1989Vladislav Zubok and Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 101: Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev regarding the Fall of the Berlin Wall, November 10, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 103: Record of Telephone Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl, November 11, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 104: Record of Telephone Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and François Mitterrand, November 14, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya. (trad.)
Document No. 106: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Brian Mulroney, November 21, 1989Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 107: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, November 24, 1989Todd Hammond (trad.)
Document No. 108: Speech by Ladislav Adamec at CC CPCz Extraordinary Session, November 24, 1989Helmut Kohl
Catherine Nielsen (trad.)
Document No. 109: Letter from Helmut Kohl to George H.W. Bush, November 28, 1989Vladislav Zubok (trad.)
Document No. 110: Soviet Transcript of the Malta Summit, December 2-3, 1989Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 112: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Petar Mladenov, December 5, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 113: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Hans Dietrich Genscher, December 5, 1989Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 114: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and François Mitterrand, December 6, 1989Vladislav Zubok. (trad.)
Document No. 116: Four Soviet Foreign Ministry Documents regarding the Situation in Romania, December 20-25, 1989Vladislav Zubok (trad.)
Document No. 117: Memorandum from the CC CPSU International Department, “Towards a New Concept of Relations between the USSR and the States of Central and Eastern Europe”, January 5, 1990Svetlana Savranskaya (trad.)
Document No. 118: Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev regarding German Reunification, January 28, 1990Anna Melyakova (trad.)
Document No. 119: Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and James Baker, February 9, 1990Twenty years in the making, this collection presents 122 top-level Soviet, European and American records on the superpowers' role in the annus mirabilis of 1989. Consisting of Politburo minutes; diary entries from Gorbachev's senior aide, Anatoly Chernyaev; meeting notes and private communications of Gorbachev with George H.W. Bush, Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterrand; and high-level CIA analyses.
Complementing the documents is the inclusion for the first time of the proceedings of an extraordinary face-to-face mutual interrogation (with scholars and documents ) in 1998 of Russian and American senior former officials-Gorbachev advisers Anatoly Chernyaev and Georgy Shakhnazarov, Shevardnadze aide Sergei Tarasenko, U.S. Ambassador Jack Matlock and CIA chief Soviet analyst Douglas MacEachin-aimed at assessing and explaining Moscow and Washington's policies during the miraculous year of 1989.
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