V. Falin, Bez skidok na obstoyatel’stva: politicheskie vospominaniya, p. 440.
Ibid., p. 442.
East German Politburo, 7 October 1989: Mikhail Gorbachëv i germanskii
vopros, pp. 209–12.
Chernyaev, Sovmestnyi iskhod, pp. 805–6 (5 October 1989).
Conversation between M. S, Gorbachëv and E. Honecker, 7 October 1989:
Mikhail Gorbachëv i germanskii vopros, pp. 206–7.
Chernyaev, Sovmestnyi iskhod, pp. 805–6 (5 and 8 October 1989).
Ibid., p. 808 (11 October 1989).
DPA report (18 August 1991) on Tisch’s article in Kurier am Sonntag: John
Koehler Papers (HIA), box 52, folder: End of the DDR, 1990–1997.
V. I. Varennikov (interview), HIGFC (HIA), box 3, folder 3, p. 23.
Braithwaite, ‘Moscow Diary’, 23 October 1989; T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze
diary, 21–29 October 1989: T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze Papers (HIA), box 5;
E. A. Shevardnadze, speech to USSR Supreme Soviet, 23 October 1989:
Pravda, 24 October 1989.
V. A. Aleksandrov (interview), HIGFC (HIA), box 1, folder 2, p. 42.
Politburo meeting, 12 October 1989: V Politbyuro TsK KPSS. Po zapisyam
Anatoliya Chernyaeva, Vadima Medvedeva, Georgiya Shakhnazarova, 1985–
1991 , p. 443.
Joint memorandum of the Hungarian Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Min-
istry of National Defence on the future of the Warsaw Treaty (translated into
English), pp. 4–5, 6 March 1989: PHPCS.
E. A. Shevardnadze to the Warsaw Pact’s Foreign Ministers’ meeting in
Warsaw (East German report), 26 October 1989, pp. 6, 14, 24 and 28: ibid.
Record of conversation between M. S. Gorbachëv and W. Brandt, 17 October
1989: Mikhail Gorbachëv i germanskii vopros, pp. 229–30.
Record of conversation between Alexander Yakovlev and Zbigniew
Brzezinski, 31 October 1989, pp. 4–5: ECWF, MTG-1989-10-31-AY-ZB.
‘Memorandum of Krenz-Gorbachëv Conversation, 1 November 1989’, Cold
War International History Project Bulletin, no. 12/13 (2001), p. 19.
Conversation between M. S. Gorbachëv and E. Krenz, 1 November 1989:
Mikhail Gorbachëv i germanskii vopros, pp. 238–9.
Excerpt from record of conversation between M. S. Gorbachëv and E. Krenz,
1 November 1989: Poland, 1986–1989: The End of the System (HIA), box 1,
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Politburo meeting, 3 November 1989: V Politbyuro TsK KPSS, p. 450.
Ibid., p. 451.
T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze working notes, 19 November 1989: T. G. Stepan-
ov-Mamaladze Papers (HIA), box 2.
Deutsche Einheit: Sonderedition aus den Akten des Bundeskanzleramtes
1989/90, pp. 492–6.
T. Stepanov-Mamaladze working notes, 9 November 1989: T. G. Stepanov-
Mamaladze Papers (HIA), box 2.
