Masterpieces of History - The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1990 (Paperback)

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 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.

General

Imprint:	Central European University Press
Country of origin:	Hungary
Series:	National Security Archive Cold War Reader
Release date:	August 2011
First published:	2010
Editors:	Svetlana Savranskaya (Senior Research Fellow) • Thomas S Blanton (Director) • Vladislav Zubok (Professor of International History)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 49mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	782
ISBN-13:	978-6155053405
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	6155053405
Barcode:	9786155053405

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