Politburo meeting, 8 May 1987: Anatoli Chernyaev Papers (RESCA), box 1,
p. 220.
Shevardnadze’s analysis in T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze working notes, 11 May
1987: T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze Papers (HIA), box 1.
Ibid., 1–3 December 1988: box 2; Qian Qichen, Ten Episodes in China’s
Diplomacy, pp. 23–6.
Politburo meeting, 22 May 1987: Otvechaya na vyzov vremeni, p. 830.
K. Tōgō, Japan’s Foreign Policy, 1945–2009, p. 244.
Meeting with newspaper editors, writers and ideological personnel, 7 May
1988: Anatoli Chernyaev Papers (RESCA), box 1, p. 411.
T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze diary, 19 December 1988: T. G. Stepanov-
Mamaladze Papers (HIA), box 5.
Ibid., 20 December 1988.
Ibid., 8 January 1989.
James Mann’s interview with James Lilley, 10 September 1996, p. 5: Jim Mann
Papers (HIA), box 60.
Ibid., 3 February 1989.
Czechoslovak record of Li Peng’s trip to Moscow, pp. 1–4, 22–23 December
1985: PHPCS.
Ibid., pp. 5–6.
A. L. Adamishin Papers (HIA), box 1: Notes on Ministry of Foreign Affairs
collegium meetings, 25 April 1987, p. 8.
Ibid., p. 7.
Ibid., p. 8.
Politburo meeting, 8 May 1987: Anatoli Chernyaev Papers (RESCA), box 1,
p. 220.
T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze diary, 3 February 1989: T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze
Papers (HIA), box 5.
Ibid., 4 February 1989.
T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze working notes, 4 February 1989: ibid., box 2.
T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze diary, 4 February 1989: ibid., box 5.
T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze working notes, 4 February 1989: ibid., box 2.
Ibid.
T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze diary, 4 February 1989: ibid., box 5; T. G.
Stepanov-Mamaladze working notes, 4 February 1989: ibid., box 2.
E. Shevardnadze, Kogda rukhnul zheleznyi zanaves: vstrechi i vospominaniya,
p. 115.
T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze diary, 4 February 1989: T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze
Papers (HIA), box 5.
Ibid., 5 February 1989.
Ibid., 16 February 1989; E. A. Shevardnadze and M. S. Gorbachëv, Politburo
meeting, 16 February 1989: Central Committee plenum report by M. S.
Gorbachëv, 23 April 1985: V Politbyuro TsK KPSS, p. 388.
Conversation between M. S. Gorbachëv and H. Assad, 24 April 1987: