Schlagwort: mikhail gorbachev
Revealed – The Gorbachev File by the NSA – TOP SECRET
Become a Patron!True Information is the most valuable resource and we ask you to give back. (L to R) Vice President George H. W. Bush, President Ronald Reagan and President Mikhail Gorbachev during the Governor’s Island summit, December 1988. (Credit: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library) Marking the 85thbirthday of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the National…
The NSA unveils The Gorbachev File
Become a Patron!True Information is the most valuable resource and we ask you to give back. British and CIA Assessments, Presidential Letters and Summit Conversations Illuminate Perestroika and the End of the Cold War First and Last President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Turns 85 National Security Archive Briefing Book No. 544 Compiled…
TOP-SECRET: Alexander Yakovlev and the Roots of the Soviet Reforms
Alexander Yakovlev and the Roots of the Soviet Reforms Washington D.C. August 20, 2011 – Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, who died in Moscow last week at the age of 81, was probably the best known “architect of perestroika.” Soviet ambassador to Canada, then member of the Politburo and Mikhail Gorbachev’s closest adviser, he could rightfully be…
TOP-SECRET: The Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev Former Top Soviet Adviser’s Journal Chronicles Final Years of the Cold War
Washington, DC, August 13th, 2011 – Today the National Security Archive is publishing the first installment of the diary of one of the key behind-the-scenes figures of the Gorbachev era – Anatoly Sergeevich Chernyaev. This document is being published in English here for the first time. It is hard to overestimate the uniqueness and importance…
Reagan, Gorbachev and Bush at Governor’s Island
Washington DC, August 2nd 2011 – Previously secret Soviet documentation shows that Mikhail Gorbachev was prepared for rapid arms control progress leading towards nuclear abolition at the time of his last official meeting with President Reagan, at Governor’s Island, New York in December 1988; but President-elect George H. W. Bush, who also attended the meeting,…
Afghanistan and the Soviet Withdrawal 1989 20 Years Later
Alexander Lyakhovsky Washington D.C., July 31st 2011 – Twenty years ago today, the commander of the Soviet Limited Contingent in Afghanistan Boris Gromov crossed the Termez Bridge out of Afghanistan, thus marking the end of the Soviet war which lasted almost ten years and cost tens of thousands of Soviet and Afghan lives. As a…
TOP-SECRET: The Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev 1989
Washington, DC, July 31st – The National Security Archive publishes its fourth installment of the diary of Anatoly Chernyaev, the man who was behind some of the most momentous transformations in Soviet foreign policy at the end of the 1980s in his role as Mikhail Gorbachev’s main foreign policy aide. In addition to his contributions…
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