A. L. Adamishin Papers (HIA), box 1: Diaries 1988, 21 September 1986,
pp. 7–8. This diary entry is misdated by two years.
Charles Hill, diary (20 September 1986): Molly Worthen’s notes.
Gorbachëv’s meeting with Politburo members, including Shevardnadze, and
Gorbachëv’s aides, 22 September 1986, p. 64: Anatoli Chernyaev Papers
(RESCA), box 1.
Ibid., p. 65.
A. S. Chernyaev to M. S. Gorbachëv, 3 October 1986: ibid., box 2, folder 7.
M. S. Gorbachëv to the Reykjavik planning group (V. M. Chebrikov, L. N.
Zaikov, A. G. Kovalëv, A. S. Chernyaev and S. F. Akhromeev), 4 October
1986, p. 76: ibid., box 1.
Ibid., pp. 73–4 and 76–7.
Ibid., pp. 74–5.
Ibid., p. 77.
Ibid., p. 78.
Ibid., p. 77.
Ibid., pp. 76–7.
Gorbachëv at the Reykjavik preparatory group (this time consisting of V. M.
Chebrikov, L. N. Zaikov, A. G. Kovalëv, A. S. Chernyaev and S. F. Akhro-
meev), 4 October 1986: V Politbyuro TsK KPSS, pp. 72–4.
‘Zapis’ besedy A. N. Yakovleva s direktorom instituta mezhdunarodnykh
izmenenii Kolumbiiskogo Universiteta (SShA) S. Bialerom’, 20 May 1986:
Aleksandr Yakovlev. Perestroika, 1985–1991, p. 48. See also later conversa-
tions, ibid., pp. 159–63, 166–71 and 307–12.
T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze diary, 2 October 1986: T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze
Papers (HIA), box 5.
Politburo meeting, 6 October 1986, pp. 1–8: Dmitri A. Volkogonov Papers
(HIA), reel 18.
Memo of preparatory group (L. N. Zaikov, V. M. Chebrikov, S. L. Sokolov, A.
F. Dobrynin and A. G. Kovalëv) to the Central Committee, October 1986:
Vitalii Leonidovich Kataev Papers (HIA), box 4, folder 11.
Politburo meeting, 6 October 1986, p. 8: Dmitri A. Volkogonov Papers
(HIA), reel 18.
Politburo meeting, 8 October 1986: V Politbyuro TsK KPSS, p. 75.
Comments to British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe: T. G. Stepanov-
Mamaladze working notes, 4 October 1986: T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze
Papers (HIA), box 1; A. L. Adamishin Papers (HIA), box 1: Diaries 1986, 19
November 1986 and 5 December 1986.
