Masterpieces of History
Author | : Svetlana Savranskaya |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 2010-05-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9786155211881 |
ISBN-13 | : 6155211884 |
Rating | : 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Twenty years in the making, this collection presents 122 top-level Soviet, European and American records on the superpowers' role in the annus mirabilis of 1989. Consisting of Politburo minutes; diary entries from Gorbachev's senior aide, Anatoly Chernyaev; meeting notes and private communications of Gorbachev with George H.W. Bush, Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl and François Mitterrand; and high-level CIA analyses, this volume offers a rare insider's look at the historic, world-transforming events that culminated in the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War. Most of these records have never been published before.