25 May 2011 — National Security Archive
Top Gorbachev Adviser Chronicles Final Year of the Soviet Union
Archive Marks Author’s 90th Birthday With Online Publication in English for the First Time
For more information contact:
Svetlana Savranskaya – 202/994-7000
svetlana@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., May 25, 2011 – Marking the 90th birthday of former top Gorbachev advisor Anatoly Sergeevich Chernyaev, the National Security Archive today publishes on the Web at http://www.nsarchive.org the latest installment of the unique and invaluable Chernyaev diary, covering the final fateful year of the Soviet Union, 1991.
Chief foreign policy aide to Gorbachev from 1986 through 1991 and a leading architect of perestroika and “new thinking,” Anatoly Sergeevich remains a champion of glasnost, sharing his notes, documents and first-hand insights with scholars trying to understand the peaceful end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 2004, he donated the originals of his detailed diaries covering the years from 1972 through 1991, to the National Security Archive in order to ensure permanent public access to this record — beyond the reach of political uncertainties in contemporary Russia.
Translated into English for the first time, by Anna Melyakova and edited by Svetlana Savranskaya of the Archive’s Russia/Eurasia program, today’s posting on the year 1991 is the sixth installment of the Archive’s publication of the Chernyaev diary, now covering all of the crucial Gorbachev years, 1985 through 1991.
Visit the Archive’s Web site for more information.
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