The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991

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602 THE END OF THE COLD WAR


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  1. Braithwaite, ‘Moscow Diary’, 12 July 1989.

  2. ‘Zapis’ besedy A. N. Yakovleva s poslom v SSSR Dzh. Metlokom’, 20 July
    1989: Aleksandr Yakovlev. Perestroika, 1985–1991. Neizdannoe, maloizvestnoe,
    zabytoe, pp. 340–2.

  3. See Kramer, ‘Gorbachev and the Demise of East European Communism’,
    p. 189.

  4. See also ibid., p. 190.

  5. T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze diary, 16 August 1989: T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze
    Papers (HIA), box 5.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Gazeta Wyborcza, 29 September – 1 October 1989, p. 6.

  8. GDR Ambassador Plashke to G. Wittag, telegram, 20 August 1989: Poland,
    1986–1989: The End of the System (HIA), box 1, folder 2, item 22, pp. 1–2;
    official GDR response to Foreign Affairs Minister Totu, 29 August 1989, box
    1, folder 2, item 29, p. 1.

  9. Gazeta Wyborcza, 29 September – 1 October 1989, p. 6.

  10. See Kramer, ‘Gorbachev and the Demise of East European Communism’,
    p. 190.

  11. See M. Kramer, ‘The Demise of the Soviet Bloc’, pp. 788–854, citing especially
    ‘Vstrechi v Varshave’, Izvestiya, 27 August 1988, p. 3.

  12. See Paczkowski, The Spring Will Be Ours, pp. 508–9.

  13. L. V. Shebarshin (interview), HIGFC (HIA), box 2, folder 19, p. 21.

  14. Ibid., pp. 22–3.

  15. V. A. Medvedev (interview), ibid., box 2, folder 10, p. 46.

  16. Braithwaite, ‘Moscow Diary’, 13 September 1989.

  17. Central Committee plenum, 19 September 1989: RGASPI, f. 3, op. 5, d. 318,
    p. 8.

  18. Central Committee plenum, 19 September 1989: ibid., f. 3, op. 5, d. 323,
    p. 182; for Bush’s speech on 7 September 1989 see http://bushlibrary.tamu.
    edu/research/public_papers.php?id=872&year=1989&month=9.

  19. Proposal to the Central Committee by E. A. Shevardnadze, A. N. Yakovlev,
    D. T. Yazov and V. M. Kryuchkov, 20 September 1989, pp. 8–12: Zelikow–
    Rice Papers (HIA), box 3.

  20. Excerpt from minute on Politburo meeting, 28 September 1989 and accom-
    panying proposal: RGASPI, f. 89, op. 9, d. 33, pp. 1–5.

  21. Attali, Ve r b a t i m, vol. 3, p. 297 (conversation between F. Mitterrand and M.
    Thatcher, 1 September 1989).

  22. Chernyaev, Sovmestnyi iskhod, p. 808 (9 October 1989).

  23. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book no. 293, doc. 3: A. S.
    Chernyaev’s notes on conversation between M. S. Gorbachëv and M.
    Thatcher, 23 September 1989, p. 4.

  24. Ibid.

  25. Chernyaev, Sovmestnyi iskhod, p. 808 (9 October 1989).

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