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"American Woman's Account of November 17 Demonstration and the Death of a Czech Student"
Cable from U.S. Embassy in Prague, November 20, 1989 [more]

"Brutal Suppression of Czech Students' Demonstration"
Cable from U.S. embassy in Prague November 18, 1989 [more]

"Czechoslovak Independents Establish New Organization and List Agenda of Demands"
Cable from U.S. Embassy in Prague, November 20, 1989. [more]

"Czechoslovak Press Coverage of Demonstration Aftermath Shows Contradictory Lines"
Cable from U.S. Embassy in Prague, November 20, 1989 [more]

"Demonstrations Continue Over Weekend in Prague"
Cable from U.S. Embassy in Prague, November 20, 1989 [more]

"Demonstrations in Prague and other Czechoslovak Cities November 20"
Cable from U.S. Embassy in Prague, November 21, 1989 [more]

"Embassy Protest of Attack on American Journalists during November 17-19 Demonstrations in Prague"
Cable from U.S. Embassy in Prague, November 20, 1989. [more]

"Morning Demonstration at Wenceslas Square: Overheard Converastions"
Cable from U.S. Embassy in Prague, November 21, 1989 [more]

"Popular and Soviet Pressure for Reform Converge on the Jakes Leadership"
Cable from U.S. Embassy in Prague, November 20, 1989 [more]

"Student Strike Situation Report"
Cable from U.S. Embassy in Prague, November 21, 1989 [more]

Minutes of Conversation between M. S. Gorbachev and N. Ceausescu, Dec. 2, 1989
Minutes of Conversation between Soviet leader Michael Gorbachev and Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu. [more]

Declaration of a Liberated Europe, Yalta Conference, February 11, 1945

Act of Military Surrender Signed at Berlin, 8 May 1945

Stalin's "Election Speech", February 9, 1946

George F. Kennan's Long Telegram, February 22, 1946

Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech - Sinews of Peace, June 6, 1947

Truman Doctrine -Recommendation for Assistance to Greece and Turkey, March 12, 1947

George C. Marshall's "Marshall Plan", June 5, 1947

Effect of Soviet Restrictions on the US position in Berlin, June 14, 1948
Top Secret, Intelligence Estimate, 14 June 1948 [more]

Consequences of a Breakdown in Four-Power Negotiations on Germany, 28 September 1948 (Central Intelligence Agency)
Secret, Intelligence Estimate, September 28, 1948, [more]

CIA Memoradum for the President on the Situation in Berlin, 10 December 1948
Top Secret, Memorandum, 10 December 1948 [more]

Notes of the conversation between Stalin and a governmental delegation from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea headed by Kim Il Sung, March 5, 1949
Notes of the conversation between Stalin and a governmental delegation from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea headed by Kim Il Sung, March 5, 1949 [more]

NSC 8/2, March 22, 1949
Report by the National Security Council to the President. Position of the United States with Respect to Korea. [more]

Politburo decision to confirm the following directive to the Soviet ambassador in Korea, September 24, 1949
Politburo decision to confirm the following directive to the Soviet ambassador in Korea, September 24, 1949 [more]

telegram from Shtykov to Vyshinsky, January 19, 1950
telegram from Shtykov to Vyshinsky, January 19, 1950 [more]

Ciphered telegram from Stalin to Shtykov, January 30, 1950
Ciphered telegram from Stalin to Shtykov, January 30, 1950 [more]

NSC-68 - US National Security Policy in the Cold War, April 7, 1950

United Nations Security Council Resolution 82, June 25, 1950
The Security Council makes a complaint of aggression by North Korean forces upon the Republic of Korea [more]

Truman's Statement on Conflict in Korea, June 30, 1950

NSC 81/1, September 9, 1950
United States Courses of Action with Respect to Korea [more]

Ciphered telegram from Roshchin in Beijing to Filippov [Stalin], October 3, 1950, conveying October 2, 1950 message from Mao to Stalin
Ciphered telegram from Roshchin in Beijing to Filippov [Stalin], October 3, 1950, conveying October 2, 1950 message from Mao to Stalin [more]

Letter, Fyn Si [Stalin] to Kim Il Sung (via Shtykov), October 8 [7], 1950
Letter, Fyn Si [Stalin] to Kim Il Sung (via Shtykov), October 8 [7], 1950 [more]

Ciphered telegram, Roshchin to Filippov (Stalin), October 14, 1950, re: meeting with Mao Zedong
Ciphered telegram, Roshchin to Filippov (Stalin), October 14, 1950, re: meeting with Mao Zedong [more]

MacArthur's letter to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, November 28, 1950
MacArthur expresses alarm over increased Chinese presence in Korea. "We face an entirely new war." [more]

UN General Assembly Resolution 498(V), February 1, 1951
Calls on the People's Republic of China to cease all hostilities on the Korean peninsula. [more]

Letter from General Ridgeway to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, July 10, 1951
A summary of the initial United Nations negotiations with Communist representatives. [more]

Eisenhower's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

March 19, 1953, Resolution, USSR Council of Ministers with draft letters from Soviet Government to Mao Zedong and Kim Il Sung and directive to Soviet delegation at United Nations
March 19, 1953, Resolution, USSR Council of Ministers with draft letters from Soviet Government to Mao Zedong and Kim Il Sung and directive to Soviet delegation at United Nations [more]

United Nations proposal for solving the prisoners of war issue, May 23, 1953
General Clark relays the terms of the UN proposal to the Joint Chiefs of Staff [more]

Radio Telegram from V. Semyonov Providing Situation Report to V. Molotov and N. Bulgarin, 17 June 1953
Telegram from Soviet Ambassador V. Semyonov on the situation in Berlin on June 17, 1953. [more]

NSC 158: United States Objectives and Actions to Exploit the Unrest in the Satellite States, 19 June 1953
Top Secret, NSC 158. Recommendations Adopted by the National Security Council at the suggestion of the Psychological Strategy Board on covert actions to be undertaken in the Soviet Satelite States. [more]

NSC 157/1, July 7, 1953
U.S. Objective with Respect to Korea Following an Armistice. [more]

Otto Grotewohl's Notes of a Politburo SED CC Meeting, 8 July 1953
Notes of the July 8, 1953 Politburo SED CC Meeting discussing Walter Ulbricht's leadership of the SED [more]

Eisenhower and Rhee exchange letters at war's end, July 27, 1953
Presidents Eisenhower and Rhee exchange letters on the occasion of the armistice signing. [more]

Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" at the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU, February 25, 1956

Kennedy's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961

Letter from Ambassador Pervukhin to Foreing Minister Gromyko, 19 May 1961
Top Secret, Russian Foreign Ministry Archives. [more]

Letter from Ambassador Pervukhin to Foreing Minister Gromyko, 4 July 1961
Top Secret, Russian Foreign Ministry Archives. [more]

Walter Ulbricht's Speech at the 3-5 August 1961 Moscow Conference
Speech at the Moscow Conference, 3 August 1961 [more]

Letter from Ulbricht to Khrushchev, 15 September 1961
Letter from GDR leader W. Ulbricht to Soviet leader N. Khrushchev regarding the Berlin Wall. [more]

Letter from Khrushchev to Ulbricht, 28 September 1961
Khrushchev's response to Ulbricht September 15 letter discussing the Berlin Wall. [more]

Brandt's Eastern Policy, Feb. 16, 1970
Memorandum for the President from Henry A. Kissinger on West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's Eastern Policy. [more]

The Current Status of Brandt's Ostpolitik, March 10, 1970
Memorandum to the President from Henry A. Kissinger: The Curent Status of Brandt's Ostpolitik [more]

The Berlin Negotiations -- New Guidelines, April 5, 1971
Memorandum for the President from Henry A. Kissinger: The Berlin Negotiations -- New Guidelines. [more]

Berlin Negotiations: the Unresolved Issues, July 21, 1971
Memorandum for Mr. Kissinger from Helmut Sonnenfeldt: Berlin Negotiations: the Unresolved Issues. [more]

The Final Days of Negotiations, Aug. 13 to Aug. 19, 1971
Cables to and from Berlin on the final days of negotiations. 5 Documents [more]

Comrade B on the Plot of the Reactionary Chinese Clique
The document illuminates the views and attitudes of Vietnam's top leader in the crisis year 1979, and also some aspects of the situation within the socialist camp at that particular juncture. Read Document [more]

Information About CDE. L. I. Brezhnev's Meeting with CDES. S. Kania and W. Jaruzelski, August 14, 1981
Information About CDE. L. I. Brezhnev's Meeting with CDES. S. Kania and W. Jaruzelski, August 14, 1981 [more]

Session of the CPSU CC Politburo, December 10, 1981
Session of the CPSU CC Politburo, December 10, 1981 [more]

Speech by Józef Czyrek, May 11, 1988
Speech by Józef Czyrek, May 11, 1988 [more]

Georgy Shakhnazarov's Preparatory Notes for Mikhail Gorbachev for the Meeting of the Politburo, October 6, 1988
Georgy Shakhnazarov's Preparatory Notes for Mikhail Gorbachev for the Meeting of the Politburo, October 6, 1988 [more]

Address by Mikhail Gorbachev at the 43rd U.N. General Assembly Session, December 7, 1988 (Excerpts)
Excerpts of Address by Mikhail Gorbachev at the 43rd U.N. General Assembly Session, December 7, 1988 [more]

Conversation between M.S. Gorbachev and Karoly Grosz, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party, March 23-24, 1989
Memorandum of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Karoly Grosz, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party, Moscow, March 23-24, 1989 [more]

Report on a Working Visit of Wojciech Jaruzelski to Moscow, May 9, 1989
Report on a Working Visit of Wojciech Jaruzelski to Moscow, May 9, 1989 [more]

Transcript of the Central Committee secretariat meeting of the Polish United Workers Party (PZPR), June 5, 1989
Transcript of the Central Committee secretariat meeting of the Polish United Workers Party (PZPR), in Warsaw, June 5, 1989. [more]

Opening Full Session of the National Roundtable Negotiations
Excerpts from the transcript of the video recording of, the Opening Full Session of the National Roundtable Negotiations, June 13, 1989. [more]

Bush-Kohl Telephone Conversations On the Situation in East Germany, June 1989 to October 1990
Telephone conversations between President George H. W. Bush and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl on the situation in East Germany [more]

Memorandum from Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov to the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, July 12, 1989
Memorandum from Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov to the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, July 12, 1989 [more]

Report of the President of People’s Republic of Hungary Rezso Nyers and Karoly Grosz, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party on their talks with Gorbachev in Moscow, 24-25 July, 1989
Top Secret, Negotiation between Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Rezso Nyers, President, and Károly Grósz, General Secretary of the MSZMP, Moscow. Report to the MSZMP Political Executive Committee, 24-25 July 1989 [more]

Minutes of the Meeting othe Citizens’ Parliamentary Club, August 1, 1989, 8p.m.
Minutes of the Meeting othe Citizens’ Parliamentary Club, August 1, 1989, 8 p.m. [more]

Czechoslovak Secret Police Memorandum, August 20, 1989

Presidential National Security Directive 23
US relations with the Soviet Union. Presidential National Security Directive 23, September 22, 1989 [more]

Excerpt from the Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev, October 5, 1989
Excerpt from the Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev, October 5, 1989 [more]

Letter from Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov to the BCP CC, October 24, 1989
Letter from Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov to the BCP CC, October 24, 1989 [more]

Memorandum of Conversation between Egon Krenz, Secretary General of the Socialist Unity Party, and M.S. Gorbachev, Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, November 1, 1989
Memorandum of Conversation between Egon Krenz, Secretary General of the Socialist Unity Party, and M.S. Gorbachev, Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, November 1, 1989 [more]

Soviet Record of Conversatoin between M.S. Gorbachev and the General Secretary of the Central Committe of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Egon Krenz, November 1, 1989
Soviet Record of Conversatoin between M.S. Gorbachev and the General Secretary of the Central Committe of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Egon Krenz, November 1, 1989 [more]

Note of Conversation on GDR-FRG Economic Cooperation, Novermber 6, 1989
Note of conversation between East German leader Alexander Schalck and West German Minister of the Chancellery Rudolf Seiters on future economic cooperation between the two German states. The discussion makes clear that the East German economy will collapse without imediate and massive West German aid. [more]

Minutes of the SED Politburo, Novermber 7, 1989
The SED Politburo meets and decides a new travel law will be developed in order to placate some of the popular demands. [more]

Conversation between West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the leader of Polish Solidarity Lech Walesa, November 9, 1989
Record of conversation between West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the leader of Polish Solidarity Lech Walesa, Warsaw, November 9, 1989. [more]

Draft Transit Rules, November 9, 1989
Draft of the new transit rules developed for discussion in the East German Council of Ministers. [more]

Meeting of the SED Central Committe on the New Transit Rules, November 9, 1989
The SED discusses the situation in East Germany and the implementation of the new transit rules. [more]

Press Conference Announcing the New transit Rules, November 9, 1989
The Press Conference announcing that all East German citizens are able to travel freely to West Germany [more]

Diary Entry from Gorbachev’s Foreign Policy Assistant Anatoly Chernyaev, 10 November 1989
Entry from the Diary of Gorbachev’s Foreign Policy Assistant Anatoly Chernyaev, 10 November 1989. [more]

Excerpt from Anatoly Chernyaev's Diary, November 10, 1989
Excerpt from Anatoly Chernyaev's Diary, November 10, 1989 [more]

Message from Gorbachev to Kohl, November 10, 1989
Mikhail Gorbachev asks West German leader Helmut Kohl to excercise restrain on the issue of East Germany. [more]

Message from Gorbachev to Western Leaders, November 10, 1989
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev writes Allied leaders -- US President George Bush, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and French President François Mitterand -- concerning the situation in East Germany and the need for maintaining the status quo. [more]

Transcript of the Plenum Session of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, November 16, 1989
Transcript of the Plenum Session of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, November 16, 1989 [more]

Declaration of Vaclav Havel, November 23, 1989

Civic Forum Draft Thesis, November 24, 1989

Premier Ladislav Adamec at the extraordinary session of the Czechoslovak Communist Party Central Committee, 24 November 1989
Speech by Premier Ladislav Adamec at the extraordinary session of the Czechoslovak Communist Party Central Committee, Prague, 24 November 1989 [more]

Letter by Ognyan Doynov to Delegates of the People's Assembly, December 13, 1989
Letter by Ognyan Doynov to Delegates of the People's Assembly, December 13, 1989 [more]

Letter by People's Representative and Candidate BCP CC Politburo Member Andrey Lukanov to Stanko Todorov, Chairman of the People's Assembly, December 18, 1989
Letter by People's Representative and Candidate BCP CC Politburo Member Andrey Lukanov to Stanko Todorov, Chairman of the People's Assembly, December 18, 1989 [more]