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v Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Foreword by Anatoly S. Chernyaev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi Foreword by Jack F. Matlock, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii Chronology of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix The Logic of 1989: The Soviet Peaceful Withdrawal from Eastern Europe by Svetlana Savranskaya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 “U.S. Policy and the Revolutions of 1989” by Thomas Blanton . . . . . . . . 49 Dialogue: The Musgrove Conference, May 1–3, 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 DOCUMENTS Document No. 1: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Transcript of Mikhail gorbachev’s Conference with CC CPSU Secretaries, March 15, 1985 Document No. 2: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev regarding the “Vladimirov” Article, July 5, 1985 Document No. 3: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Memorandum from Anatoly Chernyaev to Aleksandr Yakovlev on germany and Eastern Europe, March 10, 1986 Document No. 4: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Speech by Mikhail gorbachev to Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 28, 1986 Document No. 5: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, June 13, 1986 Document No. 6: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Memorandum from Mikhail gorbachev to the CC CPSU Politburo on Topical Questions regarding Collaboration with Socialist Countries, June 26, 1986 Melyakova book.indb 5 2010.04.12. 16:20 vi Document No. 7: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, July 3, 1986 Document No. 8: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Transcript of CC CPSU Politburo Session, November 13, 1986 Document No. 9: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, January 29, 1987 Document No. 10: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Proposal from georgy Shakhnazarov to the CPSU for a Partial Soviet Troop Withdrawal from the ČSSR, March 1987 Document No. 11: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Report on Mikhail gorbachev’s Visit to Czechoslovakia, April 16, 1987 Document No. 12: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, May 8, 1987 Document No. 13: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Report on Mikhail gorbachev’s Visit to Romania, June 4, 1987 Document No. 14: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Report on Eduard Shevardnadze’s Visits to Bulgaria, Hungary, and Yugoslavia, July 9, 1987 Document No. 15: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 State Department Intelligence and Research Report: “Economic Reform in the USSR and Eastern Europe,” September 16, 1987 Document No. 16: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, November 19, 1987 Document No. 17: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Memorandum from Robert gates, “gorbachev’s gameplan: The Long View,” November 24, 1987 Document No. 18: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Telegram from Rozanne Ridgeway to All European Diplomatic Posts, “Eastern Europe: Invitation to the Dance,” December 1987 Document No. 19: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, March 10, 1988 Document No. 20: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Record of Conversation between Mikhail gorbachev and Lazar Moisov, March 14, 1988 Document No. 21: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, March 24–25, 1988 Document No. 22: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Record of the Main Content of Conversation between Mikhail gorbachev and gustáv Husák, April 12, 1988 Document No. 23: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Record of the Main Content of a Telephone Conversation between Mikhail gorbachev and János Kádár, May 19, 1988 Melyakova book.indb 6 2010.04.12. 16:20 [3.81.144.39] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 10:38 GMT) vii Document No. 24: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Comments from georgy Shakhnazarov on Viktor Kulikov’s Report at the Warsaw Treaty PCC, May 25, 1988 Document No. 25: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 National Intelligence Estimate 11/12-9-88: “Soviet Policy toward Eastern Europe under gorbachev,” May 1988 Document No. 26: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286 Notes of CC CPSU Politburo Session, June 20, 1988 Document No. 27: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 Speech by Mikhail gorbachev at a Dinner with Wojciech Jaruzelski, July 11, 1988 Document No. 28: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Record of Conversation between Mikhail gorbachev and Józef Czyrek, September 23, 1988 Document No. 29: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 Preparatory Notes from georgy Shakhnazarov for Mikhail gorbachev for CC CPSU Politburo Meeting, October 6, 1988 Document No. 30: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev regarding a Meeting between Mikhail gorbachev and Helmut Kohl, October 28, 1988 Document No. 31: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Notes of a Meeting between Mikhail gorbachev and Foreign Policy Advisers, October 31, 1988 Document No. 32: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 Summary of Conversations between Károly grósz, János Berecz, Miklós Németh, Mátyás Szűrös and Aleksandr Yakovlev, November 10–11, 1988 Document No. 33: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 CIA Intelligence Assessment, “gorbachev’s September Housecleaning: An Early Evaluation,” December 1988 Document No. 34: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev on the Situation in the Baltics, December 10, 1988 Document No. 35: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 Transcript of CC CPSU Politburo Session, December 27–28, 1988 Document No. 36: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 Record of Conversation between Aleksandr Yakovlev and Henry Kissinger, January 16, 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Document No. 37: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Record of Conversation between Mikhail gorbachev and Henry Kissinger, January 17, 1989 Melyakova book.indb 7 2010.04.12. 16:20...