Masterpieces of History

Titel: Masterpieces of History : The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989
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Veröffentlicht: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Central European University Press, [2019]
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource ( pages)
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9786155211881
Zusammenfassung: 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 Gorbachevs 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 Washingtons policies during the miraculous year of 1989