Masterpieces of History

The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1990

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Av Svetlana Savranskaya, Thomas S. Blanton, Vladislav Zubok, Thomas S Blanton

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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 François Mitterrand; and high-level CIA analyses, this volume offers a rare insider's look at the historic, world-transforming events that culminated in the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War. Most of these records have never been published before.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-08-20
Mått156 x 234 x 49 mm
Vikt1 188 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNational Security Archive Cold War Reader - CEU Press
Antal sidor782
FörlagCentral European University Press
ISBN9786155053405

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Svetlana Savranskaya is a Senior Research Fellow of the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and since 2001 the director of the Archive's Russia programs.Thomas S. Blanton is Director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.Vladislav Zubok is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. Among his publications are Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Stalin to Putin (with Eric Shiraev, Palgrave Press, 2000); Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia (Harvard University Press, 2009); The Idea of Russia. The Life and the Works of Dmitry Likhachev (I. B. Tauris, 2016).

Preface and Acknowledgements Foreword by Anatoly S. Chernyaev Foreword by Jack F. Matlock, Jr. Acronyms Chronology of Events "The Logic of 1989: The Soviet Peaceful Withdrawal from Eastern Europe," by Svetlana Savranskaya "U.S. Policy and the Revolutions of 1989," by Thomas Blanton Dialogue: The Musgrove Conference, May 1 - 3, 1998 122 previously classified documents from Soviet, European and American archives Main Actors Selected Bibliography Index

"When, where, why did the Cold War end? How did it manage to end peacefully? The answers are in this wonderful collection of crucial historical documents, penetrating essays by experts, plus the record of a revealing symposium including former Soviet and American officials. An invaluable source book on the end of the 20th century." William C. Taubman, Amherst College, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era "Evocative, illuminating, insightful: This volume is a brilliant collection of documents, conver-sations, and essays. It is absolutely indispensable for understanding the end of the Cold War." Melvyn Leffler, University of Virginia, G.L. Beer Prize-winning author of For the Soul of Mankind "The National Security Archive - deserves the highest praise for its dedication to work and truth, and for overcoming numerous obstacles created by bureaucrats and other excessively cowardly and greedy custodians of the truth about the past." (From the Foreword) Anatoly S. Chernyaev, adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev, author of My Six Years with Gorbachev