The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991

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540 THE END OF THE COLD WAR


testimony in R. Reagan to M. S. Gorbachëv, 30 April 1985, pp. 6–7: RRPL,
Executive Secretariat, NSC, Head of State Files: USSR: General Secretary
Gorbachev, box 39.


  1. Central Committee plenum, 23 April 1985: RGASPI, f. 2, op. 3, d. 708, p. 34.

  2. Ibid., pp. 34–5.

  3. Ibid., p. 35.

  4. Ibid., p. 38.

  5. Ibid., p. 39.

  6. Ibid., pp. 40–1.

  7. Central Committee plenum report by M. S. Gorbachëv, 23 April 1985: V
    Politbyuro TsK KPSS. Po zapisyam Anatoliya Chernyaeva, Vadima Medve-
    deva, Georgiya Shakhnazarova, 1985–1991, p. 15.

  8. Central Committee plenum, 23 April 1985: RGASPI, f. 2, op. 3, d. 708, p. 76.

  9. S. F. Akhromeev in S. F. Akhromeev and G. M. Kornienko, Glazami marshala
    i diplomata, p. 35.

  10. A. L. Adamishin Papers (HIA), box 1: Diaries 1986, 19 November 1986, p. 1.

  11. Chernyaev, Sovmestnyi iskhod, p. 575 (16 September 1984).


12: The Moscow Reform Team


  1. Ye. Ligachev with S. Cohen, Inside Gorbachev’s Kremlin: The Memoirs of
    Yegor Ligachev, p. 21.

  2. See above, p. 61.

  3. Politburo meeting, 12 July 1984: V. Bukovskii (ed.), Moskovskii protsess,
    pp. 87–8.

  4. A. L. Adamishin Papers (HIA), box 1: Diaries 1985, 10 April 1985.

  5. V. A. Medvedev (interview), HIGFC (HIA), box 2, folder 10, p. 25.

  6. Politburo meeting, 29 June 1985, p. 2: Dmitri A. Volkogonov Papers (HIA),
    reel 17.

  7. T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze diary, 26 April 1986: T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze
    Papers (HIA), box 5; E. Shevardnadze, Kogda rukhnul zheleznyi zanaves:
    vstrechi i vospominaniya, pp. 67–8.

  8. E. Shevardnadze, Moi vybor: v zashchitu demokratii i svobody, p. 80.

  9. Politburo meeting, 29 June 1985, pp. 2–3: Dmitri A. Volkogonov Papers
    (HIA), reel 17.

  10. Ibid., p. 3; confidential information given by B. N. Ponomarëv to A. S.
    Chernyaev: A. Chernyaev, Sovmestnyi iskhod. Dnevnik dvukh epokh. 1971–
    1991 gody, p. 637 (1 July 1985).

  11. Shevardnadze, Moi vybor, p. 58.

  12. Ibid., pp. 59–60; Shevardnadze, Kogda rukhnul zheleznyi zanaves, pp. 71–2.

  13. Conference of Central Committee secretaries, n.d. but likely to be in January
    1983: Dmitri A. Volkogonov Papers (HIA), reel 17.

  14. Gorbachëv’s second meeting with provincial party committee secretaries,
    15 April 1988: Anatoli Chernyaev Papers (RESCA), box 2, folder 5.

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