Master Table of Contents

Bulletin 3 (Fall 1993)

Bulletin 4 (Fall 1994)

1. Letters: Stalin, Kim, and Korean War Origins
   

2. Spy vs. Spy: The KGB vs. the CIA
   Vladislav M. Zubok

3. More Documents from the Russian Archives

   Germany and the Cold War

4. The Soviet Occupation: Moscow’s Man in (East) Berlin
   Norman M. Naimark

5. Germany and the Cold War: New Evidence from East-bloc Archives
   Jim Hershberg

6. Stalin and the SED Leadership, 7 April 1952: “You Must Organize Your Own State”
   

7. New Evidence on Khrushchev’s 1958 Berlin Ultimatum
   Translation and Commentary by Hope M. Harrison

   
   

   Soviet Espionage and the Bomb

8. Atomic Espionage and Its Soviet “Witnesses”
   Vladislav M. Zubok

9. The KGB Mission to Niels Bohr: Its Real “Success”
   Yuri N. Smirnov

10. Documents: Niels Bohr
    

    
    

    Soviet Nuclear History

11. Soviet Cold War Military Strategy: Using Declassified History
    William Burr

12. Cold War Soviet Science: Manuscripts and Oral Histories
    Ronald Doel and Caroline Moseley

13. Moscow’s Biggest Bomb: The 50-Megaton Test of October 1961
    Viktor Adamsky and Yuri Smirnov

14. Nuclear Weapons after Stalin’s Death: Moscow Enters the H-Bomb Age
    Yuri Smirnov and Vladislav Zubok

Bulletin 5 (Spring 1995)

1. To Attack, or Not to Attack? Stalin, Kim Il Sung, and the Prelude to War
   Kathryn Weathersby

   1956 Hungarian Crisis

2. Poland, 1956: Khrushchev, Gomulka, and the "Polish October"
   L.W. Gluchowski

3. Hungary and Poland 1956: Khrushchev’s CPSU CC Presidium Meeting on East European Crises, 24 October 1956
   Introduction, Translation, and Annotation Mark Kramer

4. Imre Nagy, Hesitant Revolutionary
   Johanna Granville

5. Imre Nagy, aka “VOLODYA”— A Dent in the Martyr's Halo?
   Johanna Granville

6. Reports on Agent “VOLODYA”: Russian Documents on Imre Nagy
   Documents provided and translated by Johanna Granville

7. The Yeltsin Dossier: Soviet Documents on Hungary, 1956
   Janos M. Rainer

   
   

   1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

8. ANATOMY OF A CONTROVERSY: Anatoly F. Dobrynin’s Meeting With Robert F. Kennedy, Saturday, 27 October 1962
   Jim Hershberg

9. The Crisis and Cuban-Soviet Relations: Fidel Castro’s Secret 1968 Speech
   Philip Brenner and James G. Blight

10. Fidel Castro, Glasnost, and the Caribbean Crisis
    Georgy Shakhnazarov

    
    

11. The “Lessons” of the Cuban Missile Crisis for Warsaw Pact Nuclear Operations
    Mark Kramer

12. When and Why Romania Distanced Itself from the Warsaw Pact
    Raymond L. Garthoff

13. Russian Foreign Ministry Documents On the Cuban Missile Crisis
    Introduction by Raymond L. Garthoff

14. Using KGB Documents: The Scali-Feklisov Channel in the Cuban Missile Crisis
    Alexander Fursenko

15. “Dismayed by the Actions of the Soviet Union”: Mikoyan’s talks with Fidel Castro and the Cuban leadership, November 1962
    Vladislav M. Zubok

    Carter-Brezhnev

16. Hopes Raised and Dashed
    Carter, Brezhnev, and SALT II: An Introduction to G.M. Kornienko’s Commentary
    Mark Garrison

17. The Path to Disagreement: U.S.-Soviet Communications Leading to Vance's March 1977 Trip to Moscow
    

    1953 GDR Uprising

18. New Documents on the East German Uprising of 1956
    Introduction and commentary by Christian Ostermann

19. The Report to the SED Central Committee
    

20. The Report to the Soviet Leadership
    

    Soviet Policy and the 1980-81 Polish Crisis

21. Soviet Policy During the Polish Crisis
    Mark Kramer

22. The Warsaw Pact and the Polish Crisis of 1980-81: Honecker's Call for Military Intervention
    Translated and Introduced by Mark Kramer

23. Declassified Soviet Documents on the Polish Crisis
    Translated and annotated by Mark Kramer

24. The SED Politburo and the Polish Crisis
    SED-State Research Group (translated by Mark Kramer)

Bulletin 6-7 (Winter 1995/1996)

Stalin’s Conversations With Chinese Leaders

1. Talks with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, 1949-53, with commentaries by Chen Jian, Vojtech Mastny, Odd Arne Westad, and Vladislav Zubok

2. Rivals and Allies: Stalin, Mao, and the Chinese Civil War, January 1949, introduction by Odd Arne Westad

   New Evidence on the Korean War

3. New Russian Documents on the Korean War, introduction and translations by Kathryn Weathersby

4. China’s Road to the Korean War, by Chen Jian

5. Assessing the Politics of the Korean War, 1949-51, by Evgueni Bajanov

6. The Shtykov Diaries, by Hyun-su Jeon with Gyoo Kahng

7. Stalin, Mao, Kim, and China’s Decision to Enter the Korean War, Sept. 16-Oct. 15, 1950: New Evidence from the Russian Archives, article and translations by Alexandre Y. Mansourov

8. Bruce Cumings and Kathryn Weathersby: An Exchange on Korean War Origins

9. Soviet Interrogation of U.S. POWs in the Korean War, by Laurence Jolidan

   New Chinese Sources

10. Constructing a History of Chinese Communist Party Foreign Relations, by Michael H. Hunt

11. CCP Foreign Relations: A Guide to the Literature, by Michael H. Hunt

12. CCP Leaders’ Selected Works and the Historiography of the Chinese Communist Revolution, by Chen Jian

13. The Second Historical Archives of China, by Gao Hua with Scott Kennedy

    New Evidence on Sino-Soviet Relations

14. The Emerging Disputes Betwen Beijing and Moscow: Ten Newly Available Chinese Documents, 1956-1958, introduction, translations, and annotations by Zhang Shu Guang and Chen Jian

15. Mao on Sino-Soviet Relations: Two Conversations with the Soviet Ambassador, introduction by Odd Arne Westad

16. The Soviet Foreign Ministry Appraisal of Sino-Soviet Relations on the Eve of the Split, by Mark Kramer

17. East German Documents on the Sino-Soviet Border Conflict, 1969, by Christian F. Ostermann

18. The Cold War in Asia: Khabarovsk Conference Held on Russian Far East, by David L. Wolff

19. Soviet Reactions to the Sino-Soviet Border Rift, introduction and translations by Elizabeth Wishnick

20. Sino-Soviet Tensions, 1980: Two Russian Documents, introduction and translations by Elizabeth Wishnick

21. New Evidence on Sino-American Relations Mao Zedong’s Handling of the Taiwan Straits Crisis of 1958: Chinese Recollections and Documents, introduction, translations, and annotation by Li Xiaobing, Chen Jian, and David L. Wilson

22. Khrushchev’s Nuclear Promise to Beijing during the Crisis, introduction by Vladislav Zubok

23. Mao Zedong and Dulles’s “Peaceful Evolution” Strategy: Revelations from Bo Yibo’s Memoirs, introduction and translation by Qiang Zhai

24. New Evidence on the Vietnam/Indochina Wars The Vietnam War and Soviet-American Relations, 1964-73: New Russian Evidence, by Ilya V. Gaiduk

25. Beijing and the Vietnam Conflict, 1964-1965: New Chinese Evidence, article and translations by Qiang Zhai

26. Polish Secret Peace Initiatives in Vietnam, by Jerzy Michalowski

27. The Cambodian National Archives, by Kenton J. Clymer

28. Sources on the Khmer Rouge Years: The Cambodian Genocide Program

    Research Notes

29. Documenting the Early Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program, by Mark Kramer

30. Secret East German Report on Chinese Reactions to the 1956 Hungarian Revolt, by Mark Kramer

    Book Reviews

31. G.M. Kornienko, The Cold War: Testimony of a Participant, review by David R. Stone

32. Chen Hansheng, My Life During Four Eras, review by Maochen Yu
33. Robert Zuzowski, Political Dissent and Opposition in Poland: The Workers’ Defense Committee “KOR”, and Ya.Ya. Grishin, Dramaticheskie sobytiya v Pol’she, 1980-1981 gg, review by Mark Kramer

34. Response: Sudoplatov Controversy (cont.), More on 1956 Polish & Hungarian Crises

35. Update

Bulletin 8-9 (Winter 1996/1997)

1. Editor’s Introduction

   New Evidence on the Cold War in Southern Africa

2. Havana’s Policy in Africa, 1959-76: New Evidence from Cuban Archives, by Piero Gleijeses
3. Fidel Castro’s 1977 Southern Africa Tour: A Report to Honecker
4. Moscow and the Angolan Crisis: A New Pattern of Intervention, by Odd Arne Westad
5. Soviet Documents on Angola and Southern Africa, 1975-1979

   Anatomy of a Third World Cold War Crisis: New East-bloc Evidence on the Horn of Africa, 1977-1978

6. Introduction, by James G. Hershberg
7. The Horn, the Cold War, and New Documents from the Former East-bloc: An Ethiopian View, by Ermias Abebe
8. Moscow, Mengistu, and the Horn: Difficult Choices for the Kremlin, by Paul B. Henze
9. East Germany and the Horn Crisis: Documents on SED Afrikapolitik, by Christian F. Ostermann
10. Russian and East German Documents on the Horn of Africa, 1977-1978

    U.S.-Soviet Relations and the Turn Toward Confrontation, 1977-1980: New Russian & East German Documents

11. Introduction, by James G. Hershberg
12. Russian and East German Documents

    New Evidence on the Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan

13. Concerning the Situation in “A”: New Russian Evidence on the Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan, by Odd Arne Westad
14. The Soviet Union and Afghanistan, 1978-1989: Documents from the Russian and East German Archives

    U.S.-Cuban Relations and the Cold War, 1976-1981: New Evidence from Communist Archives

15. Introduction, by James G. Hershberg
16. Russian and East German Documents
17. Cuba as Superpower: Havana and Moscow, 1979, by Jorge I. Dominguez
18. A “Moment of Rapprochement”: The Haig-Rodriguez Secret Talks, by Peter Kornbluh

    More New Evidence on the Cold War in Asia

19. Introduction, by James G. Hershberg
20. More on Mao in Moscow, Dec. 1949-Feb. 1950
21. Fighting for Friendship: Mao, Stalin, and the Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty of 1950, by Odd Arne Westad
22. Translated Russian and Chinese Documents on Mao Zedong’s Visit to Moscow, December 1949-February 1950
23. The Discrepancy between the Russian and Chinese Versions of Mao’s 2 October 1950 Message to Stalin on Chinese Entry into the Korean War: A Chinese Scholar’s Reply, by Shen Zhihua
24. Stalin, Mao, Kim and Korean War Origins, 1950: A Russian Documentary Discrepancy, by Dieter Heinzig
25. Khrushchev vs. Mao: A Preliminary Sketch of the Role of Personality in the Sino-Soviet Split, by William Taubman
26. A New “Cult of Personality”: Suslov’s Secret Report on Mao, Khrushchev, and Sino-Soviet Tensions, December 1959
27. A Crucial Step toward the Sino-Soviet Schism: The Withdrawal of Soviet Experts from China, July 1960, by Chen Jian
28. The Sino-Indian Conflict, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Sino-Soviet Split, October 1962: New Evidence from the Russian Archives, by M.Y. Prozumenschikov
29. New East-bloc Documents on the Sino-Indian Conflict, 1959 & 1962

    More New Evidence on the Cuban Missile Crisis

30. More New Evidence on the Cuban Missile Crisis: More Documents from the Russian Archives, by James G. Hershberg
31. More on Bobby and the Cuban Missile Crisis, by James G. Hershberg
32. Russian Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis
33. The Mikoyan-Castro Talks, 4-5 November 1962: The Cuban Version
34. The “Lessons” of the Cuban Missile Crisis for Warsaw Pact Nuclear Operations, by Mark Kramer

    Special Feature: New Evidence on the 1956 Polish and Hungarian Crises

35. Conferences in Budapest, Potsdam Spotlight Cold War Flashpoints
36. Togliatti on Nagy, 30 October 1956: Missing Cable Found
37. New Evidence on Soviet Decision-Making and the 1956 Polish and Hungarian Crises, by Mark Kramer
38. The “Malin Notes” on the Crises in Hungary and Poland, 1956, translated and annotated by Mark Kramer

    Research Notes

39. The Russian Nuclear Declassification Project: Setting up the A-Bomb Effort, 1946, by G.A. Goncharov, N.I. Komov, and A.S.Stepanov
40. Khrushchev’s 1960 Troop Cut: New Russian Evidence, by Vladislav M. Zubok

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