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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Publisher

Central European University Press

Year

2010

Print ISBN

9789639776777

eBook ISBN

9786155211881

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Eastern European History

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
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
Documents
Main Actors
Selected Bibliography
Index
Photographs
back cover

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