A Cardboard Castle?: An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991

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A Cardboard Castle? NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE COLD WAR READERS Series Editor MALCOLM BYRNE Previously published: THE PRAGUE SPRING ‘68 UPRISING IN EAST GERMANY, 1953 THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION A Book Prepared by the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (PHP) Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich National Security Archive, Washington Institute for Strategy and Security Policy at the Austrian Defense Academy, Vienna Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies, Florence Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Oslo A Cardboard Castle? AN INSIDE HISTORY OF THE WARSAW PACT, 1955–1991 Edited by VOJTECH MASTNY and MALCOLM BYRNE Editorial Assistant MAGDALENA KLOTZBACH Central European University Press Budapest New York © 2005 by The National Security Archive Washington, and the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich Published in 2005 by Central European University Press An imprint of the Central European University Share Company Nádor utca 11, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary Tel: +36-1-327-3138 or 327-3000 Fax: +36-1-327-3183 E-mail: ceupress@ceu.hu Website: www.ceupress.com 400 West 59th Street, New York NY 10019, USA Tel: +1-212-547-6932 Fax: +1-646-557-2416 E-mail: mgreenwald@sorosny.org All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the permission of the Publisher. ISBN 963 7326 08 1 cloth ISBN 963 7326 07 3 paperback ISSN 1587-2416 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A cardboard castle?: an inside history of the Warsaw Pact, 1955–1991 / edited by Vojtech Mastny and Malcolm Byrne; editorial assistant Magdalena Klotzbach. p. cm. – (National Security Archive Cold War readers) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9637326081 (hardbound: alk. paper) – ISBN 9637326073 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Warsaw Treaty Organization–History. 2. Warsaw Treaty Organization–History– Sources. 3. Europe, Eastern–History, Military–20th century. 4. Europe, Eastern–History, Military–20th century–Sources. 5. Cold War. I. Mastny, Vojtech, 1936– Byrne, Malcolm. III. Title. IV. Series. UA646.8C372005 355’.031’0947–dc22 2005002291 Preprint by Attributum Studió, Budapest Printed in Hungary by Akadémiai Nyomda, Martonvásár ...